Why do Italian soccer fans and other foreigners fly the Confederate flag?

Back in 2012, as Napoli lost four-one to Chelsea in the quarterfinals of soccer's Champions League quarter final, a number of fans noticed something unusual hanging in the Italian club's end of the stadium: A Confederate flag. Yes, a flag used by soldiers fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War was now being flown almost a century and a […]









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