"Luca's grandfather (who I hope is known as Nonno Spaghetti) gave him his first sky-blue Lazio jersey when the boy was just a toddler. Luca, likewise, will be a Lazio fan until he dies. "We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team." By the way, the word for "fan" in Italian is tifoso. Derived from the word for typhus. In other words--one who is mightily fevered."