Word: perugia
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...midfielder Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champion A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old midfielder, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia. Although sorry to see their favorites go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager ArsÈne Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight...
...Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champions A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of superstar Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old playmaker, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia...
...this, too, Nakata led the way. He made tiny Perugia a household name in Japan, his name selling thousands of Tshirts and TV rights to the club's games. He also became the town's main tourist draw. "Japanese fans were crawling all over the place," says Perugia spokesman Paolo Meattelli. Even before he has kicked a ball in Parma's blue-and-yellow colors, Nakata has made a good start for the club: on the day he signed up, Parma inked a contract to sell 10,000 Nakata jerseys in Japan. Every Parma match will be broadcast live...
DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 68, passionate environmental crusader who founded Greenpeace International in 1979; in a head-on car crash; in the Umbrian countryside near Perugia, Italy. McTaggart inspired a worldwide movement in 1972 by defiantly sailing his boat into a French nuclear test site at the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific...