It seems no one here has heard about this new "reality show" launched by Berlusconi's media company. It's called "Campioni - Il sogno" (Champions - the dream).. 25 amateur soccer players (although some of team have had prior experience in the higher leagues) were selected this summer in italy and assigned to a team which is going to play in the "Eccellenza" league (one level below Serie D).

The usual mechanisms of reality show apply: you can "vote" your starting eleven and so on. You can see it for yourself
here (http://www.campioniilsogno.com) (in italian).

It's a bit funny seeing how all the other teams are sponsored by the grocery around the corner and their team is sponsored by Vodafone and Adidas :)

Hopefully they won't embarass themselves. The "winners" of the show (probably the people's favorite) will get to participate in pre-season training with Juventus, Milan or Inter.

What are your thoughts?

sounds cool. hope it airs in sweden in a few months.

sounds very cool, i wish they could do that here in the PDL. Don't know how many people would watch it since soccer isn't as popular here, but you might get those people to watch who just like to watch reality shows even though they don't like soccer.

There's a similar thing in Denmark too. A sister channel to the national "TV2", called "TV2 Zulu", has a football program where they've assembled a squad full of nerds and the like, who have never played football, and are giving them 3 months of intense football training. After that, they'll play a friendly vs the national champions, FC Copenhagen. :(


The team's name is: FC Zulu (H)

Originally posted by Dragan T
There's a similar thing in Denmark too. A sister channel to the national "TV2", called "TV2 Zulu", has a football program where they've assembled a squad full of nerds and the like, who have never played football, and are giving them 3 months of intense football training. After that, they'll play a friendly vs the national champions, FC Copenhagen. :(


The team's name is: FC Zulu (H)

damn! i got that channel! what time does it air, Dragan?

Have no idea....:(


But I'm sure I'll catch another commercial of it soon.

What the hell?! You guys have TV2 Zulu in Sweden?! :eek:


WHAT THE HELL?!?! You guys have tvs in Sweden?!?!? (H)

Yeah there was something like that here, called "Fashnus Football Challenge" it was alrite...

Originally posted by Dragan T
Have no idea....:(


But I'm sure I'll catch another commercial of it soon.

What the hell?! You guys have TV2 Zulu in Sweden?! :eek:


WHAT THE HELL?!?! You guys have tvs in Sweden?!?!? (H)

lol i dunno why but for some reason we can get 3+, TV3 Danmark, TV2 Zulu, TV DR1, DR2 and TV Danmark.

and don't talk **** about swedish Tv, man :p

for example, can u guys watch La Liga, Dutch League, French Ligue, Serie A and Premier League? :mrpimp:

Actually we got some Swedish and Norwegian channels here too...... :( :p


SV1, SV2 and TV4 (H)
and 2 Norwegian ones I can't remember (H)

3+ and TV3 Danmark cover the CL, while "Kanal 5" shows Premier League and Primera Liga :mrpimp:


No, Serie A though :(

we had it here. It sucked arse

Originally posted by Virgo
we had it here. It sucked arse

Yea, it was called "Soccastars", which aired on RTP1 this spring. The "prizes" were a year's training with Sporting's D team (men) and a scholarship to a university in the US (women).