Empathism

# Empathism

## Abstract

The Empathic Movement (Italian: La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo) is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement founded in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento ': Omignano - "The Aphorisms Village", Salento - "The Poetry Village", Vallo della Lucania - "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre". From this first Triangle the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento was born to represent the enlarged epicenter of the Movement with 25 villages involved which joined with a new cultural identity and signing a protocol agreement.

The purpose of the Empathic Movement is to support the importance of emotional intelligence in response to the technocratic age, rejecting extreme individualism and social exclusions. They consider the “truth” as impossible to grasp except for fragments and for this reason they support a fragmented vision through a subjective “point of view” and the “interdisciplinary” for the arts to have more possibilities to catch little “truths” of the existence.

Empathism advocate a cultured art and believe in the importance of the return of the figure of the artist as a guide. Its major aim is to reunify all the arts and artists coming from every field to let every artist to improve himself in order to tend towards the figure of a Total Artist (and, as a consequence, push for a reunification of peoples) through a common empathetic feeling.

## Description

The symbolic myth of the movement is called Unus: an unknown demigod (son of Zeus and of a mortal woman) representing the Total Artist killed, torn to pieces and thrown into the Alento (Campania) river by his brothers, determining the old separation of the Arts. As highlighted by Giacomo Maria Prati, with the figure of Unus we are assisting at a return to the myth. A new figurative Greek character invented by Lerro using the literary device of the dream. One of the proposal of the Movement is keeping searching for the symbolic figure of a Total Artist in the contemporary age: a single person or a combination of contributions by people engaged in different cultural fields. For this reason the Movement apply to the Art the principles of the indivisibility and interdisciplinarity and asks artists to join and even to work together when it can be useful.Furthermore they support the overcoming of the Western scientific-specialized model and, therefore, the logical-rational approach. They also reject the principles of an "unambiguous vision" of the "truth" and on the other hand, they support the principles of the "point of view" and "fragmentation". The movement promote the development of emotional intelligence through the arts and of the arts and culture through emotions.

The founder, the Italian poet Menotti Lerro, asked several noted artists to sign the “Empathic Manifesto”, to join in their peculiar expression of the “Arts” in a less individualistic way and also to react in that moment to a very difficul period for the world due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the consequent deep physical and psychological closure. As Lerro affirmed: "Society needed again the figure of the artist as guide"; the journalist Roberto Guidetti answered declaring that the Empathic Movement was really born in the perfect moment to give a direction to all people in that new tragic situation. However, since 2019 a new growing group of joined artists started to help create a new cultural pole in Southern Italy, giving life first to the “Contemporary Arts Centre” in the Cilento area, which has invented "The Poetry Village", "The Aphorisms Village" and the Cilento International Poetry Prize, giving light to new territory in terms of culture. The decentralization of culture gives voice to the silent masses of Cilento especially the peasant ones in the mountains, with a peculiar emphasis on intense and genuine emotion and feelings to share with others through Arts, refusing individualism, social exclusion, excesses of competition among artists and also rejecting the large phenomenon of plagiarism mainly due to the mass media and internet in particular. The official slogan of the Movement used by Menotti Lerro is "Be Empathic!" (in Italian: "Sii Empatico!").

Since 2019 the Movement had its own seats (Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti, with the poet Franco Loi as Honorary President) both in Cilento and in Milan to organize its events. In the same year the artist and academic Marco Baudinelli from Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara created the logotype of the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti. Still in 2019 the official Manifesto written by Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia was launched before at the literary Caffè Giubbe Rosse in Florence, after at the Brera Academy of Milan and later at the Central Library, Edinburgh in Scotland. About the Manifesto it is important to say it was first conceived as an oral speech in occasion of the foundation of the Contemporary Centre of Arts; this discourse was defined as "New Manifesto" by the philosopher Remo Bodei. Lerro explained it also in his article published on the daily newspaper Affari Italiani. He stated he would never have written a classical manifesto in the contemporary age because it would have been limiting. Regarding the Manifesto the musician Franco Mussida stressed the importance of this new vision, claiming that "it is very rare nowadays to meet people feeling art as a mission to tell about its essence". The literary critic Francesco D'Episcopo affirmed that the Manifesto is "like a central nucleus of a cultural planning".

In 2020 the first official volume of the Movement, La Scuola Empatica, with the first one hundred adherents also defined Empathic Masters, was published in Italy and in Italian language by the publisher Ladolfi, established in Novara. In the volume are also published the main movement proposals "to combat the stagnation of hypertrophic contemporary individualism". The same were published months later on the Italian literary magazine "Riscontri". In the volume - dedicated to Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, Alessandro Serpieri (writer) and Remo Bodei, considered "infinita luce" (In English: "Infinite light") - the Italian poet Giampiero Neri explains how the movement developed and asked to "all people having the same principles, to join to them". The poet Vivian Lamarque invited all artists to "trace their own centimeter" affirming that they are "little voices / for a great choir". The Italian poet Elio Pecora interrogate the readers asking if " empathy " is really a gift only belonging to the human beings, explaining, immediately afterwards, that in his experience animals have always been very empathic with him much more than humans and in particular than poets. The Italian Television 7 Gold invited Menotti Lerro to explain the importance of the Movement in particular in that difficult Pandemic period.

In 2021, in occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Soprintendenza of Salerno e Avellino stressed how the Empathic School was the third School started in the Province of Salerno. The previous two were the Eleatic School and Schola Medica Salernitana. According to the Soprintendenza of Salerno and Avellino the union of these three schools determined the birth of a macro cultural triangle of the Salerno's Province. In relation to the latter topic, the literary critic Francesco D'Episcopo from Federico II University of Naples, wrote an article titled "Scuola Eleatica, Scuola Medica, Scuola Empatica: il triangolo culturale del territorio salernitano, da Parmenide a Lerro" (In English: "Eleatic School, Medical School, Empathic School: the cultural triangle of the Salerno area, from Parmenides to Lerro"). The 10th of August, Salento Cilento "The Poetry Village" put on the wall of its square the first Cultural Pyramid of Cilento. In the same year The Biblioteca Città di Arezzo invited Menotti Lerro to present the Movement.

In 2022 the Cilento Poetry Prize, flagship of the Movement, got financed by Ministero della Cultura. That year the Giambattista Vico Foundation announced to have joined to the movement. In the same period Piano Vetrale known as "The Village of Murales" announced to put on the wall of its main square the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento. The village named Roccadaspide offered a new site to the Movement and fixed on the wall of the "Crescella" square the same Cultural Pyramid. In Paestum the Italian poet Franco Arminio presented the Empathic Movement. In the November 2022 the "Museo Eleousa" of San Mauro Cilento inaugurate its Cultural Pyramid.

In 2023 the Italian musician Stefano Pantaleoni, from Parma Conservatory Arrigo Boito, composed the official anthem of the Empathic Movement. On the 26th of January at the "Circolo della Stampa di Avellino " a conference, about the new Movement, based on the Special Edition dedicated to it from the Magazine "Riscontri", was organized. Furthermore the first volume about the Movement in English language was published in England with the title The Empathic Movement. A section of the volume was dedicated to the "Empathic Masters" who adhered to the Movement. Among them the Polish Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 Olga Tokarczuk; the Italian painters Omar Galliani from Brera Academy, Andrea Granchi from Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Renato Galbusera from Brera Academy and Maria Jannelli; the Venezuelan sculptors Victor Lucena and Carlos Medina and the Italian sculptor Cesare Nardi; the Italian poets Franco Loi, Giampiero Neri, Enrico Testa from Genoa University, Valerio Magrelli from Roma Tre University, Maurizio Cucchi, Milo de Angelis, Roberto Carifi, Elio Pecora, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Mario Santagostini, Gabriella Sica from Roma Tre University, Davide Rondoni (founder of the Centro di Poesia Contemporanea dell' Università di Bologna), Tiziano Rossi, Luigia Sorrentino (journalist RAI), Mario Fresa, Massimo Dagnino, Rossella Tempesta, Gabriela Fantato, Gian Mario Villalta (artistic director of Pordenonelegge.it), Corrado Calabrò, Vivian Lamarque, Alberto Bertoni from Università di Bologna, Menotti Lerro from Ciels University; the Italian Hungarian poet Tomaso Kemeny from Università degli Studi di Pavia; the Italian lecture and poet Anna Correale Sorbonne University; the Italian writers Diego de Silva, Maurizio De Giovanni, Dacia Maraini (also director of the Mondadori 's magazine Nuovi Argomenti), Raffaele Nigro; the American poets Genny Lim and Maria Mazziotti Gillan from Binghamton University also professor Emeritus of English and creative writing; the Swiss painter Anna Bianchi; the Spanish artist Rosa María Román Garrido from "Institut Valencià de Conservació, Restauració i Investigació"; the Italian art critics Elena Pontiggia from Brera Academy, Giuseppe Siano, Ezio Guaitamacchi, Paolo Emilio Antognoli Viti, Carmelo Strano from Università degli Studi di Catania and Francesco Abbate from Università degli Studi di Messina; the Italian geneticist Edoardo Boncinelli from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and researcher for National Research Council (Italy); the Polish architect Joanna Kubicz from Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts; the Pakistani digital creator Mateen Ashraf from University of Limerick; the Italian documentary directors Giorgio Verdelli and Elvio Annese from Brera Academy; the Italian Architects Aldo Castellano from Polytechnic University of Milan, Vittorio Santoianni from Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and Attilio Dursi from University of Naples Federico II and Nunzio Tonali; the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish; the Romanian literary critic Lidia Vianu from University of Bucharest; the English writer Michael Lieber; the English literary critic and director of the Centre of Health Humanities Andrew Mangham from Reading University; the Romanian journalist Marius Chelaru; the Italian actor Mario Pirovano; the Polish musician Tomasz Krezymon from Chopin University of Music; the Hungarian musician István Szelei, the Italian musician Andrea Castelli bass player of the Rovescio della Medaglia rock band; the Italian conservatory musicians Giancarlo Turaccio and Domenico Giordano from "Conservatorio Giuseppe Martucci of Salerno"; the Italian journalists Paolo Guzzanti for La 7 and rete 4, Antonia Cartolano for Sky Italia, Erminia Pellecchia for Il Mattino, Ottavio Rossani for Corriere della Sera, Peppe Iannicelli for Napoli Canale21, Franco Vassia; Roberto Guidetti for 7 Gold, Aldo Bianchini for "Il Giornale di Salerno"; the Italian singers Franco Mussida (founder Premiata Forneria Marconi), Bernardo Lanzetti (former lead vocalist Premiata Forneria Marconi), Lino Vairetti (lead vocalist Osanna), Annibale Giannarelli, Michele Pecora, Benito Madonia and Santino Scarpa; the Korean interpreter Lee Kichul; the Italian philosophers Remo Bodei, Emeritus professor Pisa University and Umberto Curi from Padua University; the Italian literary critics Massimo Bacigalupo from University of Genoa and Vincenzo Guarracino; the Italian translator Emilio Coco; the Italian actor Alessandro Quasimodo (son of the Nobel Prize for literature Salvatore Quasimodo); the Italian former Head of Department of Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno Luigi Rossi; the Italian photograph Francesco Di Loreto; the Italian designers Vincenzo Missanelli from Brera Academy, Mauro Afro Borella from Albertina Academy and Gino Finizio from IULM University, Antonio Perotti; the Italian publishers Giuliano Ladolfi (director of the literary magazine "Atelier") and Sandro Gros-Pietro (director of the literary magazine "Vernice"); the responsible for the literary magazine "Riscontri" Ettore Barra; the Italian composter Carmine Padula, the Italian cartoonist Maurizio Zenga; the Italian neurophysiologist Giacomo Rizzolatti (who discovered mirror neurons) from University of Padua; the Italian Emeritus professor of chemistry Vincenzo Schettino from University of Florence; the Italian professor of Analysis of communication processes Gabriele Perretta from Brera Academy; the Indian researcher in Artificial Intelligence Prayag Tiwari from Halmstad University; the Uruguayan professor of Hispanic literature Àlvaro Revello; the Italian professors of English Literature Maria Teresa Chialant and Elena Paruolo, Salerno University; the professor Giuseppe Gentile, hispanist at Università degli Studi di Salerno; the professor of the Politecnico di Milano, expert in Light Art, Gisella Gellini; Enzo Tinarelli mosaicist from Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara; Angelo Ghilardi set designer from Brera Academy; the Italian professor in "Progettazione e Gestione dei Sistemi Turistici" from Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Vincenzo Pepe; the professor of greek history from Padua University Davide Susanetti; the Italian professor of cultural anthropology Katia Ballacchino from Salerno University; the researcher Vincenzo Aversano from University of Salerno; the professor for local development from Università La Sapienza di Roma Renato Di Gregorio; the Italian teacher in graphic arts at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Gabriele Ivan Di Battista; the Italian Head Teacher of "Liceo Classico Parmenide" Francesco Massanova; the Italian former Head teacher of "Liceo Classico Parmenide" Carlo di Legge; the Italian lecture and former Vice Director of the Center Contemporary of Arts, Giusy Rinaldi; the Italian librarian at "Biblioteca Provinciale of Salerno" Wilma Leone; the Italian officer at Chigi Palace Luca Paragano; the Italian officers at Soprintendenza of Salerno e Avellino Rosa Maria Vitola, Mariagrazia Barone, Silvia Pacifico and Antonia Autuori; the Italian archaeological sector manager for the Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino Tommasa Granese; the Italian Head Teacher of the Secondary School ITIS of Arezzo, Alessandro Artini; the Italian Head Teacher of Liceo Artistico "Sabatini-Menna" of Salerno Ester Andreola; the Italian Head Teacher of the Liceo Statale "Regina Margherita" Angela Nappi; the director of the "Acropolis Museum" of Agropoli, Elena Foccillo; Giancarlo Sammito teacher of English literature at Liceo Artistico di Brera, Milano; the Italian psychotherapist, opinionist for RAI and Mediaset and member United Nations Office at Geneva for rights of children Maria Rita Parsi; the Bulgarian artist Ilian Rachov; the Italian visual artists Antonello Pelliccia from Brera Academy, Edoardo Landi, Nello Teodori, Kuturi, Gianni Macalli from Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo; the Italian artisan Lucio Liguori; the Russian poet Julia Pikalova; the Italian female actor of Un posto al sole Patrizia Pozzi; the Italian poet Simone Fagioli; the Russian teacher Valentina Sentsova from Ciels University of Milan; the Italian president of the 'Circolo degli Artisti di Varese' Antonio Bandirali; the Italian director of the Museo di Etnopreistoria del C.A.I. di Napoli, a Castel dell'Ovo Vincenzo Di Gironimo; the Italian founders of the visual artistic group 'Kaos 48' Fabrizio Scomparin (nephew of Lucio Amelio) and Stefano Nasti; the Italian lecture creator of the prize 'Una fiaba tra i murales' Giuseppe Sica; the Italian founder of the festival (which festival about the Classical Greek Theatre has joined to the Movement too) " Velia -Teatro", Michele Murino; the Italian president of 'La Casa della Poesia di Como ' Laura Garavaglia; the president for the club for UNESCO of Velia Massimo Trotta; the Italian co-founder of the Camaiore Poetry Prize Rosanna Lupi; the founders of the "Rete delle Scuole dell'Empatia" located in Viterbo Ulisse Mariani and Rosanna Schiralli; the Italian director of the National Dance Academy (Italy), located in Rome, Annamaria Galeotti; the Soprintendenza 's director ai Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici di Salerno e Avellino Raffaella Bonaudo, the Senator of the Italian Republic Francesco Castiello; the president of the Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni Giuseppe Coccorullo; and many others coming from different filds of the Arts and from different countries. Between 2023 and 2024 the Movement was mentioned several times on the major television channels as Raiuno, Raidue and Raitre. In this same period the Soprintendenza of Salerno and Avellino organized a meeting in the high school of Salerno "Regina Margherita" to present the new movement and its importance in the world of school to have a more empathic approach. The Movement is presented also in Rome in a conference organized by the same Soprintendenza with a presentation of the Director of the Istituto Centrale per il Patrimonio Immateriale, Leandro Ventura. In 2023, the Museo Ugo Guidi located in Forte dei marmi adhered to the movement. The Paleontological museum of Magliano Vetere, (Adriano Piano as Mayor), announced to have fixed the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento on its main wall. From January till May 2023, many weekly events were organised in the cultural venue of Roccadaspide with specific presentations of empathic authors and artists. The title of the cultural program was "La Bottega dell'Anima" (in English: The Workshop of the Soul). On the 3th of October the author Gaetano Ricco dedicated one of his writings in praise of the Empathic Movement and his founder Menotti Lerro. In an article by the journalist and historian Nicola Femminella titled "La svolta culturale del Cilento realizzata da Menotti Lerro con le sue innovazioni" (in English: "The cultural turning point of Cilento achieved by Menotti Lerro with his innovations"), the same Femminella affirmed that "the Cultural Pyramid, with its 25 new cultural villages involved, guarantees to the Movement a suitable epicentre, determining what we could define as a true Lerrian miracle, having thus transformed the territory from rural to cultural". On the Magazine "Riscontri" the literay critic Francesco D'Episcopo defined the Movement as "a great invention of Menotti Lerro, who was heroic also to leave his job at the Mondadori publishing house of Segrate when he was only 25, to follow his pulsions about literature". Professor Mauro Afro Borella from Accademia Albertina affirmed that we were assisting to a deep change from silly irony, isolation and hipertrophied self to a new age of sobriety and reunification of the Arts and people, hypothesizing a passage from Postmodernism to Empathism, or considering Empathism as the first movement of a Post-postmodernism.

In 2024 the Italian painter Omar Galliani, from Brera Academy, drew the figure of Unus, the symbolic Total Artist of the Empathic Movement. The Italian singers Michele Pecora and Santino Scarpa dedicate their own songs ("I poeti" from Pecora and "Dune Buggy", "Brotherly love" and "Angels and Beans" from Scarpa, sung from him in the cult films of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) to the Empathic Movement. On the 16th of January the Museo Archeologico di Salerno invited Menotti Lerro to present the Movement. In February, the Hungarian Opera singer Istvàn Szelei affirmed that the Movement greatness consisted, among other things, to not have an ideological or admonitory moral but conceptual and spiritual, giving a universal meaning. He underlined how the "New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento", in Southern Italy, was dreamed and created, and can be defined "as the therapeutic center of the European spirit". On 17th of March the farmhouse "Parmenide" located in Casal Velino adhered to the Empathic Movement "for a new philosophy of food". On the 21th of March, in occasion of the World Poetry Day, the Soprintendenza of Salerno and Avellino and the president of the Salerno Province Franco Alfieri organized a visit to Salento Cilento "The Poetry Village" to have a Poetry Reading based on the unpublished poems dedicated to Cilento and affixed on the wall of the village, written by all the poets winning the Cilento International Poetry Prize, and for a conference about the Empathic Movement. The University of Salerno invited Menotti Lerro to present the Movement the day 17th of April. On the 9th of May Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia present the "New Manifesto on the Arts" at the Turin International Book Fair. On June Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia present the Movement at the National Biblioteca di Brera with the title "Revolution and innovation through the new contemporary artistic-literary movement: Empathism!" (In Italian: "Rivoluzione e innovazione attraverso il nuovo movimento artistico-letterario della contemporaneità: l'Empatismo!"). On the 15th of June the Italian poet Maurizio Cucchi wrote an article, titled "La modernità del Movimento Empatico" (in English: "The modernity of the Empathic Movement"), for the daily newspaper Avvenire expressing the hope that this new movement may unify artists and people in the contemporary age. On the 17th of June professor Pina Basile from University of Salerno and Italian president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Salerno announced to have joined to the Empathic Movement. The 6th of July, Menotti Lerro announced that the poet Maurizio Cucchi was chosen as new Honorary President of the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti. A deplorable episode happened to Salento Cilento "The Poetry Village" on Sunday the 7th of July. As stressed by Andrea Caruso for rainews, the new mayor, Michele Santoro, ordered without consulting anyone and without any official document approved, to destroy with pickaxes the poetic tiles with unpublished overwritten verses dedicated from all the winners of the Cilento International Poetry Prize to the Cilento's territory. The case was quickly stigmatized by the national press like a regrettable and uncivilized act. In an interview with Francesco Sampogna, Menotti Lerro asked to the Mayor Michele Santoro to give his resignation. The poet Davide Rondoni sent a letter to Il Mattino to express all his indignation for the mayor's reckless decision. Pasquale Scaldaferri, a journalist of rainews, stressed how the complete outrage was nowadays impossible to imagine in our society, especially after the shame happened with the destruction of art to Palmyra in 2013. The journalist and poet Ottavio Rossani on the poetry blog of the Corriere della Sera asked "Who are these people who are destroying the wonderful and deep work made in years by the poet Menotti Lerro to change his historical rural land in a land of poetry and high culture?" In the while time, on Tuesday the 16th of July, in England the Cambridge Scholars Publishing published the paperback edition of the volume The Empathic Movement. The day after, Menotti Lerro inaugurated a new literary column with the title "Il Foglio Empatico" (in English: "The Empathic Sheet") for the online newspaper "Il Quotidiano di Salerno". In his first article Lerro interrogated the mayor of Omignano Cilento ("Il Paese degli Aforismi") asking if he still wished to support the project or not, accusing the same mayor, Raffaele Mondelli, to never invest money in culture and in particular to not promote the "aphoristic village". On the 19th of July the official Website of Roccadaspide (with Gabriele Iuliano as Mayor) announced that the 30 artistic canvases painted and showing poems hand written by Menotti Lerro some years ago, will constitute a permanent exhibition in Piazza Crescella in a dedicated room. On Monday the 22th of July, talking to Radio Lombardia, the actor Mario Pirovano, well known for his work on the theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame, on the occasion of the awarding of the prize received in Peschici, the "Trabucco Prize-2024", talked of the importance of the Empathic Movement in his life in particular, Pirovano affirmed, because has given him new stimuli in the last years. On the 19th of July Professor Francesco D'Episcopo from University of Naples Federico II sent an open letter to the new Mayor of Salento Cilento ("The Poetry Village") to remind him about his painted and hand written tile on the City hall's wall... and how much Menotti Lerro worked to bring Cilento to be known and respectable in the World; On the 20th of July, the Director of the "Museo del Somaro" of Gualdo Tadino, Nello Teodori, with an official letter announced its adherence to the Empathic Movement. On Tuesday the 23th of July the newspaper "Il Quotidiano di Salerno" published the second "Empathic Sheet" of Menotti Lerro. In the end of the article, stressing the ostracism they gave him, Lerro invited "all artists and people of the world to resist to the brutal sentiments circulating nowadays in our society, and, furthermore, he added some "points of no return". In particular he affirmed that the Cilento International Poetry Prize will never be organized again in Salento Cilento ("The Poetry Village") as long as the present administration will be in command; in another key point he declared that he will never organize again a cultural event in Omignano Cilento ("The Aphorisms Village") as long as the present administration will be in command. On the "Empathic Sheet N°3" Menotti Lerro praised all the Mayors of the Cilento's territory helping the Empathic Movement to develop its epicenter (the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento). On the 1th of August the Empathic Masters, the Italian lecture Giuseppe Sica and Spanish Art Critic Rosa María Román Garrido, assisted their own territories, Orria Cilento and Cocentaina, to sign a twinning agreement in name of the Seventeenth-century painter Paolo De Matteis. Agostino Astore, Mayor of Orria and the fraction Piano Vetrale - "The Murals Village", stressed how important this agreement was also in relation to their membership to the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento, they affixed in the main square of the village, and to the Empathic Movement. On the 8th of August Antonello Pelliccia, Lino Vairetti and Deborah Farina organized an event in Carrara with title "Dimensione 70", as explained on the daily newspaper Il Tirreno, in collaboration with the Contemporary Centre of Arts and in name of the Empathic Movement. In the "Empathic Sheet N°4" Menotti Lerro paid tribute to all the artists who were bringing the "empathic discourse" both in Italy and abroad. He declared to have opened to a younger generation (compared with Masters) of artists, quoting the last two anthologies of "new Italian poets" published by Giulio Einaudi editore, describing himself as particularly pleased with the accessions of the poets he invited (Fantato, Tempesta, Frene, Fresa, Dagnino) "considered also the paradoxical difficulty to involve the generation closest to himself". On the 10th of August on the Arabic newspaper "Al-Araby, The New Arab ", answering to some questions, Menotti Lerro explained how he created the Empathic Movement to give answers to a very closed and corrupted World, in particular he stressed the corruption in the Italian sistem, included the Italian publishing sector. On the "Empathic Sheet N°5" Lerro affirmed that while Italians were criticizing and mocking hardly the "brilliant and very authoritative Western Canon drawn up by Harold Bloom ", they were at the same time building a "Domestic Canon" made through a corrupted editorial publishing sistem centered on friendships and clientelistic relationships (same as for Italian academic world) determining the contemporary disappearance of poetry books from all the Italian book shops due to a lack of trust of the readers, tired to find bad "new lines" to buy. He affirmed that it is different in other countries as for instance England where they use to select in a more meritocratic way their own new authors to publish. On the 30th of August, in Orria Cilento, in occasion of the publication in UK of the paperback edition of the volume The Empathic Movement, a cultural summit with Menotti Lerro and the so defined "good local politics", whose exponents were appointed by Lerro as "Custodi della Piramide" (In English: "Guardians of the Pyramid"), was organized. The firts "guardians" included: Agostino Astore, Mayor of Piano Vetrale "The Murals Village"; Francesco Castiello, Italian Senator; Gabriele Iuliano, Mayor of Roccadaspide "The Defense Village"; Gabriele De Marco, former mayor of Salento, Campania "The Poetry Village"; Adriano Piano, Mayor of Magliano Vetere "The Paleontological Village". On 16th of September Menotti Lerro inaugurated a series of "Dialoghi Empatici" (In English: "Empathic Dialogues"); this after he announced that the Cilento International Poetry Prize 2024 (Narrative Section) was awarded to the former Nobel Prize for literature Jon Fosse who was interviewed by the same Lerro. The first "dialogue", with the title "To Be Aware" (in Italian: "Essere Consapevoli") involved in the discussion Franco Mussida, Omar Galliani, Antonello Pelliccia, Bernardo Lanzetti and Menotti Lerro.

## Manifesto of Empathism

The "Nuovo Manifesto sulle Arti" (In English: "New Manifesto on the Arts") conceived by Menotti Lerro and Antonello Pelliccia as an oral speech "Sulle Arti" (In English: "On the Arts") in occasion on the foundation of the Contemporary Centre of Arts, and defined as "New Manifesto" by the philosopher Remo Bodei, was firts published on the newspaper "Cronache di Salerno" on Tuesday, the 27 of February 2019, and some months later (14 October 2019) on the literary magazine "ClanDestino". In 2019 the "Nuovo Manifesto sulle Arti" was also published in the Magazine Annali Storici di Principato Citra. In 2020, the New Manifesto of Arts was published by Zona editrice in both: English and Italian versions. In 2022 the "New Manifesto" was published in the Magazine "Riscontri".

### Manifesto Contents

The Manifesto, written in first person by Menotti Lerro and Antoello Pelliccia, starts explaining the reasons why Lerro decided to "join to many friends with different artistical roots". He stated that he understood "Art is only apparently divisible" and expressed his deep sorrow to be unable to possess and play with other arts ("At the moment, I nearly faint for the emotion in confessing it to myself: I need every art to be able to vibrate as I should like, to say as I would like, to represent it as I feel and see.") which would have help himself to better express his interior world and to be also "a less incomplete artist"; consequentially, joining to other artists was, in his opinion, the most viable solution: it was his own way to become a better artist, a "Total Artist": "It will be this union to give us the Total Artist we are looking for". Lerro put at the centre the need to have a new cultured art, stressing the importance of the tradition because "...in every art, those who have tried to innovate while forgetting tradition, have created a mostly ephemeral revolution that is often less innovative than the one lived by artists in previous centuries". For this reason the movement opposes the tabula rasa principle. Similar ideas expressed Antonello Pelliccia declaring the importance of interdisciplinarity and adding that "Art has always influenced the social climate, identifying, suggesting, and anticipating possible solutions to the problems of living and living together". Another important point is about "the phenomenon of the contemporary plagiarism among artists" due to the media and the Internet in particular, adding that " we must have the courage to say that this is happening!". In conclusion of the Manifesto, Lerro declared as a foundamental aim "to discover where the Total Artist hides himself in the Contemporary era" (in this last case meant as a single person).

## The Movement's Prize

The Cilento International Poetry Prize (financed in 2022 from Italian Ministry of Culture for 140.500 Euro) and supported from the University of Salerno is considered by the Movement as its main present for deserving and empathetic artists. The Prize is officially supported by: Regione Campania, Provincia di Salerno, Comune di Salerno, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio Salerno e Avellino, Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, Comune di Salento Cilento, Comune di Roccadaspide Cilento.

## The empathic ancient gods of the Stella Mountain

The Cultural Pyramid of Cilento, epicenter of the Movement, has its highest summit represented by the Star Mountain (in Italian: Monte Stella (Cilento)) with its megaliths which are considered as the empathic ancient gods of the Movement, capable of radiating and to fertilize the territory and the World with their light and energy. The most known megalith is called "the bastard's stone" in the local dialect "Preta ru Mulacchio" (In Italian: "Pietra del Bastardo") capable, according to the legend, of making women who rubbed their bellies on it fertile.

## Some exhibitions and cultural events since 2019

- On the 12th of January 2019 the 'Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti' inaugurates its seat in Vallo della Lucania with Menotti Lerro reading a discourse "On the Arts" (In Italian: "Sulle Arti") written by himself and the visual artist and Professor at the Brera Academy Antonello Pelliccia. This discourse was soon perceived as "New Manifesto" by some critics, in particular from the philosopher Remo Bodei.

- On the 27th of February 2019 launch of "The New Manifesto on the Arts" at the Literary Caffé Giubbe Rosse in Florence.

- The native municipality of Menotti Lerro grants him honorary citizenship and put an artistic mosaic with one of his aphorisms on one of the wall of the main hall.

- The Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti opens an own seat to Milan

- Launch of "The New Manifesto on the Arts" at the Brera Academy of Milan.

- Giampiero Neri gave a Poetry Reading in occasion of the open seat in Milan of the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti

- On 17th of May 2019 Renato Galbusera and Maria Jannelli organized an art exhibition in the seat of the Contemporary centre of Arts with the title "Degli istinti, dell'estetica passione".

- On 8th of June the Contemporary Center of Arts organized an art exhibition with original canvases by Ennio Morlotti with the title "Sedimenti del tempo". To introduce the operas the art critic Elena Pontiggia from Brera Academy.

- On 18th of May the Contemporary center of Arts organized a lesson by the Professor Elvio Annese from Brera Academy about Poetic Documentaries with the title "Incontro sul documentario poetico con visione di filmati realizzati dall'autore".

- On 9th of June in the seat of the Contemporary Center of Arts a group of visual artists organized an art exhibition dedicated to the new invented character of Menotti Lerro: Donna Giovanna. The title of the exhibition was "Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno".

- On 12th of June Omar Galliani and Menotti Lerro organized an art exhibition inviting the best students of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera to expose their own operas. The title was "Nero su Bianco".

- Tiziano Rossi gave a Poetry Reading in the Centro Contemporaneo delle Arti seat

- The painter Omar Galliani at the Provincial Museum of Salerno

- Exhibition of Antonello Pelliccia with the title "Paesaggi dell'ombra" on 16th October 2021

- Exhibition of Menotti Lerro's canvases at Pinacoteca Provinciale di Salerno

- Exhibition of original canvases of classical artists with the title "Il femminile trasfigurato nel mito e nell'arte visiva moderna". Works by: Gustave Doré, Émile Bernard, Antoine Calbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Louis André Lagrange, Paul César Helleu, Jean Dufy, Eugène Carrière, Hippolyte Petitjean, Louis Valtat, Félix Vallotton, Charles Camoin, Felice Casorati, Giovanni Boldini, Renato Guttuso.

- Concert "I Battiti della Notte" by Menotti Lerro and Tomasz Krezymon

- Cilento International Poetry Prize "Special Edition" for Franco Loi and Roberto Carifi at the Brera Academy of Milan

- Conference at the Brera Academy on the "New Manifesto on the Arts"

- Conference at the Central Library, Edinburgh on the "New Manifesto on the Arts"

- Conference at the "Circolo della Stampa di Avellino"

- Cesare Nardi and Antonello Pelliccia, art exhibition with the title "Genova – Carrara A/R"

- Art exhibition by Cesare Nardi and Antonello Pelliccia with the title "Requiem"

- Poetry Reading with Menotti Lerro presenting his "Seasons" in the Roccadaspide 'seat of the Contemporary Centre of Arts

- Cilento International Poetry Prize at Salerno

- Conference to present The Movement at the Turin International Book Fair

- Conference to present The Empathic Movement at Università degli Studi di Salerno


Dušan Cvetinović

# Dušan Cvetinović

## Abstract

Dušan Cvetinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Цветиновић; born 24 December 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Mladost Lučani.

## Career

Born in Šabac, Cvetinović made his senior debut at his hometown club Mačva in the 2006–07 season. He then joined Dinamo Vranje, immediately helping the club win promotion to the Serbian First League. Subsequently, he moved abroad and signed with Swiss club Wohlen in the 2009 winter transfer window. He also spent one season at Grasshoppers, before transferring to Vaduz in the summer of 2011.

In July 2013, Cvetinović moved to Norwegian side Haugesund. He scored 3 goals in 14 league appearances until the end of the 2013 season, as the club finished in third place. In the following campaign, he established himself as a regular member of the team's defensive line.

On 18 August 2015, Cvetinović went on a season -long loan to French club Lens, with an option for a permanent deal. He was sent off on his debut for the club in a 1–2 away loss to Dijon three days later. In total, Cvetinović appeared in 19 games for Lens during the 2015–16 season. In the summer of 2016, Cvetinović signed a permanent contract with the French side.

## Career statistics


Al-Talaba SC

# Al-Talaba SC

## Abstract

Al-Talaba Sports Club (Arabic: نادي الطلبة الرياضي, lit. ' 'Students Sports Club' ') is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. Its football team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top flight of Iraqi football. Founded in 1969, the club was named Al-Jamiea but became known as Al-Talaba ahead of the 1978–79 season after being merged with a new club of the same name. Their home stadium is Al-Talaba Stadium.

Al-Talaba are one of Iraq's most successful teams having won five league titles, most recently in the 2001–02 season. They have also achieved two FA Cups, one Super Cup and a joint-record three Umm al-Ma'arik Championships. The club's best achievements on the continental stage include finishing fourth at the 1986 Asian Club Championship and finishing second and fourth at the 1995 and 1998–99 editions of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup respectively.

The club was owned by the National Union of Iraqi Students until 1993, when the club was attached to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research with the minister being the honorary president of the club.

## History

### Origins (1961–1969)

In 1961, the University of Baghdad formed a football team made of the best football-playing students in the university, under the name of Montakhab Jami'at Baghdad (University of Baghdad Select XI), to compete in the 1960–61 Iraq Central FA Second Division, the second-tier league in the Baghdad region. The team was eliminated in the first round after losing 2–1 to the Railway Workers' Union on 22 February 1961. The team participated in the 1964 Republic Championship and also entered the Universities of Iraq League. The first president of the team was Hassan Kanah and the first technical staff consisted of the manager, Ghani Askar, and his two assistants, Moayad Al-Badri and Sami Al-Saffar.

### Formation of Al-Jamiea (1969–1978)

On 17 December 1969, the Jami'at Baghdad team was formed as the University of Baghdad re-entered the official Iraq Football Association (IFA) league pyramid. By a special resolution from the IFA, the team's first participation was in the regional second tier without needing to compete in either the third or fourth tiers. In their first season, 1970–71, the team under the management of Thamir Muhsin finished top of the second-tier league and were promoted to the Iraq Central FA First Division. However, in the 1971–72 season, they finished in last place and were relegated back to the second-tier. In 1974, the team was banned from competing in the Iraq FA Baghdad Cup competition due to events that took place in, and their withdrawal from, their match against Kahrabaa Al-Wusta B in a second-tier league game.

After three seasons, Muhsin left the team and Jamal Salih became the new manager, and the Jami'at Baghdad team became known as Al-Jamiea Sports Club with the introduction of the national club system in Iraq. Jamal Salih led the team to promotion to the top division in the 1974–75 season, after which the club acquired its own headquarters and elected an administrative body. After finishing eighth in their first Iraqi National League top-flight season in 1975–76, Al-Jamiea were the runners-up in the 1976–77 season, finishing five points behind the league leaders Al-Zawra'a.

### Merger to become Al-Talaba (1978–1980)

On 27 December 1977, a new club named Al-Talaba Sports Club (which translates to The Students) was formed under the same institution as Al-Jamiea Sports Club. Less than a year later, ahead of the 1978–79 season, the Ministry of Youth and Sports decided to merge the two clubs in order to unify the institution's sporting activity, with the merger club taking the name of Al-Talaba and retaining Al-Jamiea's place in the top division. The club took the Volleyball Training Centre on Al-Maghrib Street in Baghdad as its headquarters. Mohammed Debdeb, the president of the National Union of Iraqi Students, was named president of the club and Hadib Majhoul was named as vice-president, while nine other board members were also named.

The board decided to replace manager Jamal Salih with Abdul Wahab Abdul Qadir, who led the team through the 1978–79 season. Al-Talaba finished in third place in the league, an improvement on Al-Jamiea's eighth-place finish the previous season. For the first time, an Al-Talaba player was among the league's top three goalscorers with Hussein Saeed scoring six goals and Haris Mohammed scoring five. Al-Talaba were disqualified from the 1978–79 Iraq FA Cup due to participating in an Arab University tournament without the approval of the Iraq Football Association. In 1979, Al-Talaba represented Iraq at the 1979 Summer Universiade in Mexico, finishing in 17th place out of 26 teams.

In the 1979–80 Iraqi National League, under the management of Khalaf Hassan, Al-Talaba finished in third place again with 27 points. Two of their most significant wins that season were beating the eventual league champions, Al-Shorta, 2–0 in the second round of matches on 26 September 1979 and beating Al-Tayaran 1–0 in the 20th round on 24 April 1980. In the 1979–80 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Talaba reached the final for the first time but they were defeated on 7 April 1980 by Al-Jaish 4–2 on penalties after drawing 1–1.

### Golden years (1980–1986)

Under the management of Ammo Baba, known as the "Sheikh of Coaches", Al-Talaba won their first Premier League title in the 1980–81 season (while it was known as the National League). Before the last round of matches, Al-Talaba had 17 points and Al-Shorta had 15. Al-Talaba avoiding defeat in the last round or Al-Shorta failing to win would secure the title for Al-Talaba but, in the last match, they lost 1–2 against Al-Tayaran and Al-Shorta won 3–0 against Al-Zawra'a to create a tie on points (17) and goal difference (+14), which was the first time such a phenomenon had happened in Iraqi football. Al-Talaba were awarded the title on number of wins as they had eight wins and Al-Shorta had six. Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer of the league with eleven goals.

After achieving their first league title, Al-Talaba succeeded in winning it again in the 1981–82 season under Jamal Salih. They finished the season as the league leaders with 34 points, two points ahead of second-placed Al-Tayaran. Hussein Saeed was the second top goalscorer with eleven goals behind Al-Zawra'a's Thamir Yousif, who scored fourteen.

In the 1982–83 season, Akram Salman was appointed as the team's new manager. Al-Talaba started the season with confidence having won the league in the last two seasons, but finished in second place, only one point behind the league leaders, Salahaddin. Salahaddin were undefeated in the league while Al-Talaba had a single loss, by 2–0 loss to Al-Sinaa in the second round of matches. The championship was decided in the last match of the season when Al-Talaba met Salahaddin with only one point between them, so Salahaddin needed a win or a draw to secure the title. Al-Talaba scored first and dominated the match until, in the last thirty minutes, Salahaddin managed to equalise. The score remained 1–1, which won Salahaddin the championship for the first time in their history. Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer with 17 goals, eight goals ahead of another Al-Talaba player, Rahim Hameed.

Al-Talaba again finished second in the 1983–84, with 36 points, three behind league leaders, Al-Jaish. In 1984, Al-Talaba won its first international club competition, the 1984 Stafford Challenge Cup, winning four games and drawing one out of the five games they played in the tournament, which was hosted in Bangalore, India.

The 1984–85 Iraqi National League was abandoned halfway through due to a perceived decline in public interest, described as becoming "non-existent", after the performances of the Iraq national football team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) and winning the 1985 Arab Nations Cup and the 1985 Pan Arab Games. Al-Talaba were in third place with 29 points before the stoppage. They then participated in the Al-Rasheed Cup which was set up by Al-Rasheed after the abandonment of the league. The Al-Rasheed Cup contained twelve of the fourteen top division clubs as well as four lower division clubs. Al-Talaba reached the quarterfinals of the tournament but were knocked out by the eventual winners Al-Rasheed.

After Al-Rasheed was promoted to the top division, most of Iraq's national team players signed for them, which made it difficult for the other teams to compete. Even so, in the 1985–86 Iraqi National League and under the management of Yahya Alwan, Al-Talaba won their third league title against all expectations. They finished the season with 25 points, two points ahead of the favourites Al-Rasheed. On 27 December 1985, one of the most important matches of the season, which could have decided the championship, was played between Al-Talaba and Al-Rasheed in front of 50,000 spectators at the Al-Shaab Stadium. The match ended in a 1–0 win for Al-Talaba with the goal being from a penalty taken by Hussein Saeed in the 63rd minute. Saeed was the season's joint top goalscorer along with Ahmed Radhi and Rahim Hameed. Al-Talaba participated in the 1986 Asian Club Championship where they reached the final round but finished last in the table with a single point. Al-Talaba also participated in the Saddam International Tournament in 1986, hosted in Baghdad, but finished third in their group and failed to reach the semi-finals. By winning the league, Al-Talaba qualified for the 1986 Iraqi Perseverance Cup but were defeated 2–1 by Al-Rasheed.

### Ups and downs (1986–1992)

Due to managerial changes and instability, the 1986–87 Iraqi National League ended with Al-Talaba in sixth place, having totaled 49 points, under the consecutive management of Ahmed Subhi, Yahya Alwan and Jamal Salih. The season after, Al-Talaba under the management of Yousif Abdul-Ameer finished in eighth place with only 30 points. After that season, they participated in the Saddam Qadisiya Championship (a tournament for the four Popular Teams of Baghdad) but failed to win the tournament.

Al-Talaba returned to winning ways under the management of Jamal Ali in the 1988–89 season, which was played in a different format to previous seasons. They finished fourth in the Baghdad Group, just ahead of Al-Shorta, to qualify for the final tournament, where they finished second in Group 1, behind Al-Zawraa, to qualify for the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba defeated Al-Tayaran 6–5 on penalties after a 1–1 draw. In the final, Al-Talaba faced their rivals, Al-Rasheed, at the Al-Shaab Stadium. The match ended 1–1 at full time with their goal scored by Ali Hussein. It went to penalties where Hussein Saeed missed his penalty and enabled Al-Rasheed to win 5–4. That season, Al-Talaba also finished as runners-up in the Al-Intisar Cup, behind Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya.

In the 1989–90 Iraqi National League, which returned to the normal league format, Al-Talaba finished in sixth place with 31 points, having won twelve matches, drawn seven and lost seven. In the cup, they reached the fifth round when they won at home to Al-Sulaikh 1–0 and lost 3–1 away. This was Hussein Saeed's final season with Al-Talaba before he retired. In the next season, under the management of the club's first foreign coach, Eddie Firmani, and Yahya Alwan, they finished second with 41 points.

In the 1991–92 season, Al-Talaba finished in fourth place with 55 points. The vice-president of Al-Talaba, Salim Rasheed, organised a competition called the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, meaning Mother of all Battles Championship, in which only the top six teams in the league could participate with all the matches being played at the Al-Shaab Stadium. Al-Talaba won their first match against Al-Shorta 1–0 and lost their second match against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 1–0, qualifying them for the semi-finals where they lost to Al-Zawra'a 1–0 after an early goal by Mohammed Jassim Mahdi. In the third-place match, Al-Talaba faced Al-Karkh whom they defeated 4–3 on penalties after a 2–2 draw. The 1st Umm al-Ma'arik Championship ended with Al-Zawra'a as winners.

### Stability and Asian prominence (1992–2001)

During the longest season in Iraqi football, the 1992–93 season, when every club played 69 matches, Al-Talaba had Yahya Alwan as their manager in the first stage of the league, in which they won 14 matches, drawn seven and lost two, 1–0 against Kirkuk and the same score against Samarra. They completed the stage in third place with 35 points. Before the start of the second stage, Al-Talaba signed Ayoub Odisho as their new manager, and he led them through the second stage to have exactly the same statistics as the first one, finishing with 70 points and in second place. In the third stage, the team won 18 matches, drew four and lost only once against Al-Khutoot. After 69 matches, Al-Talaba finished top of the league with 110 points, having scored 130 goals and conceded 34. In the 2nd Umm al-Ma'arik Championship which was organised by the Iraq FA, Al-Talaba finished the group stage as the Group Two leaders with four points. In the semi-finals, they had to face Al-Zawra'a in a match which was considered a replay of the 1991 semi-final which Al-Zawra'a won 1–0. In this match, Al-Talaba won 3–2 with a golden goal in the 100th minute during extra time. In the final against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, the match ended in a 0–0 draw which led to extra time when Alaa Kadhim scored the winning goal in the 104th minute. In the 1992–93 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Talaba reached the final after defeating Haifa, Salahaddin, Al-Salam and Samarra. In the final, they lost to Al-Zawra'a 2–1.

After almost achieving a treble in the 1992–93 season, Al-Talaba were managed by Hussein Saeed in the first half of the 1993–94 season and Ayoub Odisho in the second; they finished in third place with 75 points. In the 3rd Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, they came second in the Group One table behind Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba met Al-Zawra'a for the third time in a row and won 3–1. In the final, they faced Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya for the second time and defeated them 2–1 at the Al-Shaab Stadium, winning their second successive Umm al-Ma'arik Championship under the management of Saeed. In the 1993–94 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Talaba again faced Al-Zawra'a in the final but lost this time by a score of 1–0. In the 1994–95 Iraqi National League, Al-Talaba finished fourth with 106 points, one point behind Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in second place and Najaf in third. In the last round, Al-Talaba faced Al-Zawra'a needing a win to finish second, but they lost 2–1. In the fourth edition of the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, Al-Talaba reached the final against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya but lost 4–3 on penalties after a 0–0 draw.

In the 1995–96 season, Al-Talaba finished in sixth place with 31 points, having won eight matches, drawn seven and lost seven. They reached the final of the 5th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, coming up against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya for the fourth time in a row in this competition, and Al-Talaba won with a single goal scored by Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, achieving their third Umm al-Ma'arik Championship success. After Al-Zawra'a achieved a double in the 1993–94 season, the Iraq FA chose the FA Cup runners-up, Al-Talaba, as Iraq's representative in the 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. Under the management of Ayoub Odisho, they defeated Al-Gharafa in the first leg in Doha 5–3 and lost in the second leg 1–0 at the Al-Shaab Stadium. In the second round, they came up against Yangiyer and lost 2–1 in Tashkent before they turned it around to win 2–0 in Baghdad with goals from Muhannad Mohammed and Qahtan Chathir. In the quarter-finals, Al-Talaba won their first leg against Bahman in Tehran 1–0 with a goal by Sabah Jeayer. At the Al-Shaab Stadium, Bahman won 1–0 for a 1–1 draw on aggregate. The match went to a golden goal decider which was scored by Chathir. Al-Talaba had now qualified for the semi-finals where they were drawn to meet Kazma SC of Kuwait but Kazma withdrew from the tournament, refusing to play against Al-Talaba because of political tensions between Iraq and other Persian Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War. The AFC directed Al-Talaba to play against Al-Riyadh of Saudi Arabia but they too withdrew for the same reason, and that meant Al-Talaba had a walkover through the semi-finals. In the final, Al-Talaba faced Bellmare Hiratsuka in Kanagawa where they were beaten 2–1 after the winning goal was scored in the 81st minute by Hidetoshi Nakata.

In 1996, the league was renamed to the Iraqi Premier League, and Al-Talaba finished third in the 1996–97 Iraqi Premier League, winning 17 matches, drawing nine and losing four. In August 1996, they participated in the Al-Nasr Al-Adheem Cup, but they did not win the tournament, losing 3–1 to eventual winners Al-Shorta. They reached the round of 16 in the 1996–97 Iraq FA Cup and didn't get past the group stage in the 6th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship. In the 1997–98 season, Al-Talaba finished in fifth place with 61 points, one point behind fourth placed Najaf FC. In the 7th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, they reached the semi-finals but were defeated by Najaf 3–1 on penalties. In the third place match against Al-Zawra'a, Al-Talaba were beaten 7–0 which is the most goals ever conceded in a match by Al-Talaba.

In the 1998–99 season, now under the management of Akram Salman, Al-Talaba finished in second place, only one point behind the league leaders, Al-Zawra'a, with 75 points. Had Al-Talaba won their final match of the league against Al-Naft, they would have won the league, but they only managed a goalless draw. In the 1998–99 Iraq FA Cup, they reached the final after beating Al-Shorta in the semi-finals. They were defeated by Al-Zawra'a in the final 1–0. Because of Al-Zawra'a achieving the double, the 1999 Perseverance Cup was played between Al-Zawra'a and the league and cup runners-up, Al-Talaba, where they were defeated for the third time that season by Al-Zawra'a, who won 5–4 on penalties after a 2–2 draw. In the 8th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, Al-Talaba reached the semi-finals where they were beaten by Al-Naft. In the third-place match, Al-Talaba defeated Al-Mina'a 3–1. In the 1998–99 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, they managed to reach the semi-finals where they lost to Al-Ittihad and they then lost the third-place play-off to Kashima Antlers. Al-Talaba finished fourth in the 1999–2000 season with 100 points. They also finished in the same position in the 2000–01 season with 60 points. They finished in fourth place in the 9th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship after a 3–0 loss against Al-Karkh in the third-place play-off. They qualified for the 2000–01 Asian Cup Winners' Cup but were knocked out in the first round by Al-Sadd on away goals. In addition, they lost the 2000 Baghdad Day Cup to Al-Shorta with a 2–1 defeat, and also reached the final of the 2000 Al-Quds International Championship but lost to Al-Zawra'a by 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw.

### Thair Ahmed era (2001–2007)

Al-Talaba participated in the 2001 Al-Wehdat Arabian Championship before the start of the 2001–02 season; they played four games, winning one, drawing two and losing one, finishing third in the tournament. After eight years without winning the league and six years without any trophy, Thair Ahmed led Al-Talaba to the 2001–02 championship with 91 points from 29 wins, four draws and five losses. They started the season by defeating Kirkuk FC 8–0 at Al Karkh Stadium, which is one of the biggest wins by Al-Talaba, and ended it with a 6–0 win over Duhok at Al-Shaab Stadium. They reached the final of the 11th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, after defeating Al-Karkh 1–0 in the semi-finals, against Al-Shorta where they lost with a single goal after extra time. Younis Mahmoud was the top goalscorer of the tournament. Al-Talaba also won their first-ever Iraq FA Cup that season, after meeting Al-Shorta again in the final and defeating them with Qusay Hashim's late 85th-minute goal. Al-Talaba also won the 2001 Baghdad Day Cup by defeating Al-Zawra'a 2–1 and won the 2002 Perseverance Cup against the league runners-up, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, 2–1 after extra time.

Al-Talaba were contending for the 2002–03 title before the league was cancelled due to war. In the 12th Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, they reached the final but were defeated 1–0 by Al-Shorta again. Al-Talaba's Ahmad Salah was named the best player of the tournament. They retained the Iraq FA Cup by defeating Al-Mina'a 1–0 with Alaa Kadhim's goal in the closing minutes and then defeating Al-Shorta in the final 1–0 at the Franso Hariri Stadium with Ahmad Salah's goal in the 26th minute.

In the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, all of Al-Talaba's matches in the 2003–04 season were postponed and then cancelled, except two games which they won against Al-Sinaa before the league was abandoned for the season. Al-Talaba were the runners-up of the 1st Baghdad Championship (the new name of the Umm al-Ma'arik Championship), defeating Al-Shorta 2–1 in the semi-finals and losing to Al-Zawra'a 5–4 on penalties after a 2–2 draw in the final, a match that saw three red cards in total. In the 2002–03 AFC Champions League, Al-Talaba finished third in Group D with three points from three games after one win and two losses.

Al-Talaba participated in the 2003–04 Arab Champions League, reaching the proper group stage where they finished in third place with three points. Before the start of the 2004–05 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2004 Damascus International Championship. They played three games in the tournament, winning two and losing one, being knocked out in the group stage. They also participated in the 2004 Tishreen Cup, one week after they were knocked out of the Damascus International Championship. In the Tishreen Cup, they finished top of their group to qualify for the semi-finals. They defeated Tishreen SC 1–0 to reach the final, which they lost by 3–2 to fellow Iraqi club Al-Zawra'a. In the 2004–05 Iraqi Premier League, Al-Talaba finished the first phase as leaders of Group Three with 28 points, having won eight matches, drawn four and lost four. They also became leaders of Group Two in the second phase with eight points, ahead of Al-Naft who had seven points, after winning two matches and drawing two. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba came up against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya; they were beaten in the first leg 1–0 and drew the second leg 2–2. Al-Talaba won the third-place play-off against Al-Zawra'a 4–1 on penalties after a 1–1 draw.

Al-Talaba maintained their performance in the 2005–06 Iraqi Premier League by finishing the first phase as the leaders of Group Four with 24 points from seven wins, three draws and two losses. In the second phase, they finished in second place with seven points behind Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, who had the same number of points but a better goal difference of +4 against Al-Talaba's +1. In the last match of the second phase, Al-Talaba faced Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya with a chance to retain the league leadership, but they lost 3–1. From 2–9 September 2005, Al-Talaba participated in the 2005 Damascus International Championship, reaching the final against fellow Iraqi club Al-Zawra'a. Al-Talaba won 5–4 on penalties. In the 2005–06 Arab Champions League, Al-Talaba won their first round tie against Al-Shabab by 3–1 in the first leg and 4–1 in the second leg. They faced Al-Qadisiyah in the second round and were defeated 1–0 in the first leg and 2–1 in the second leg to be eliminated the competition.

On 30 November 2006, the club's president, Hadeeb Majhoul, was kidnapped by an unknown terrorist group in Baghdad and, after three days, his body was found in the morgue. The administrative board elected the team's striker at the time, Alaa Kadhim, as the new interim president until the club's elections in which he won with 93 votes out of 97 existing on 15 March 2007. Alaa Khadim was the club's player-president through 2006–07. Aged 35 at the end of the season, he retired from playing in order to focus on administering the club.

Before the start of the 2006–07 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2006 Shabab Al-Ordon Arab Championship, a tournament organised by Shabab Al-Ordon Club. Al-Talaba played three matches in the tournament and drew all three of them, being knocked out in the group stage. In the 2006–07 Iraqi Premier League, Al-Talaba finished the first phase in second place with 13 points, behind Al-Zawra'a with 14 points, with three wins, four draws, and one loss. Al-Talaba managed to finish second in the elite stage with eight points from two wins, two draws and one loss, just ahead of Karbalaa with seven points. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba lost to Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya 2–0 and then lost 2–1 to Najaf FC in the third-place play-off.

### Instability and crisis (2007–2013)

Before the start of the 2007–08 season, Al-Talaba participated in the 2007 Press Club Championship, hosted in Syria. Al-Talaba drew both of their group stage matches, finishing second in their group to qualify for the semi-finals. In the semi-final, they lost 3–1 against Nawair SC and were knocked out. Al-Talaba considered withdrawing from the 2007–08 Iraqi Premier League due to a financial crisis that led to their players not being paid all their salaries on time, but eventually decided not to withdraw. Under the management of Karim Saddam, Nabil Zaki and Karim Salman, Al-Talaba finished in fifth place in the first phase of the league with 36 points, having won nine matches, drew nine, and lost four. They played poorly in the second phase, ending the phase in third place in their group with seven points with only one win, four draws, and three losses. They were knocked out in the round of 32 in the 2007–08 Arab Champions League, losing 4–0 on aggregate to USM Alger. In the 2008–09 Iraqi Premier League, with Abdul Ghani Shahad as Al-Talaba's manager, they finished in third place in their group with 47 points, only three points behind Najaf FC, with 14 wins, five draws, and five losses.

In the 2009–10 Iraqi Premier League, under the management of Radhi Shenaishil, Al-Talaba finished as the leaders of Group B in the first stage with 68 points, having won 19 matches, drew 11, and lost four. They withdrew in the twelfth round due to a ruling from the Iraqi Olympic Committee where they were set to face Baghdad that awarded the win. In the elite stage, Al-Talaba ended up in second place of Group One as the best runners-up of the three groups where they had ten points, the same number of points as the first place, Al-Zawra'a, but they had the goals difference of +2 and Al-Talaba the goals difference of +1. If either Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya had beaten Naft Al-Janoob or Al-Shorta had beaten Najaf FC, Al-Talaba would not have qualified for the semi-finals, but Jawiya drew 0–0 and Al-Shorta drew 2–2. In the semi-finals, Al-Talaba won 1–0 to Erbil in the first leg and drew with no goals in the second leg. They lost in the final to Duhok SC with a late goal in the 82nd minute.

With Yahya Alwan as their manager, Al-Talaba had one of the worst seasons in their history in the 2010–11 Iraqi Elite League, finishing the season in eighth place of the Southern group with 38 points, only one point away from relegation, with nine wins, eleven draws, and six losses. In the 2011 AFC Cup, Al-Talaba finished in third place in their group with five points, having won one match, drew two, and lost three, therefore they were knocked out at the group stage. In the 2011–12 Iraqi Elite League, Al-Talaba with Jamal Ali, Khalaf Hassan, and Karim Salman as their consecutive managers, finished the season in fourth place with 68 points, winning in 19 matches, drawing in 11, and losing in eight.

In the 2012–13 Iraqi Elite League, under the management of Nazar Ashraf, Al-Talaba returned to their poor performance of the 2010–11 season, finishing in the 14th place with 35 points, only one point away from relegation, with only nine wins, eight draws, and 17 losses. They saved the club from being relegated in the 33rd round against Al-Naft where they won 2–1 and also because of Al-Kahraba 's loss to Zakho in the last round. Al-Talaba passed the round of 32 of the 2012–13 Iraq FA Cup where they were up against Al-Zawra'a, drawing 0–0 in the first leg and winning 3–1 in the second leg before the tournament was abandoned.

### Recent history (2013–)

Al-Talaba finished the 2013–14 Iraqi Premier League, under the management of Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail, in eighth place with 31 points from 22 matches. The season after, Al-Talaba finished in fifth place of Group Two with four wins, five draws, and seven losses before Abu Al-Hail was sacked. In that season, they also participated in a friendly cup, the Tournament for the Armed Forces, which was played between the big four clubs of Baghdad. The mini-tournament started at the semi-final stage and each match was only 30 minutes long. Al-Talaba were knocked out in the semi-final by Al-Zawra'a, 4–2 on penalties after a 0–0 draw.

In June 2015, the board signed Ayoub Odisho as the team's new manager again after almost two decades. The team also signed Younis Mahmoud, the captain of the Iraq national team, twelve years after he left the club in 2004, with a free contract to get ready for the 2015–16 season. The team finished the group stage in fourth place of Group One with 27 points with seven wins, six draws and four losses, getting qualified to the final stage, where they finished in third place with three wins, three draws and a loss. The following season saw Al-Talaba finish in seventh place in the league with 54 points from 36 games. In the 2016–17 Iraq FA Cup, Al-Talaba defeated Al-Kadhimiya and Al-Najda to reach the quarter-final, but they had to withdraw from the quarter-final game against Naft Al-Wasat after their players went on strike in protest at their unpaid wages.

## Stadiums

In the 1980s, a stadium to hold 8,000 spectators was built at Hai Al-Qahira in Baghdad to host Al-Talaba's home matches. Al-Talaba currently hold their training sessions at the University of Baghdad Stadium in Jadraya, Baghdad, 15 km away from their main stadium.

In early 2014, the owner of the club, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, gave the project of building a new sports city to the Spanish company TriArena. They are constructing a main football stadium with a capacity of 16,000 spectators and an area of 71,150 m. The project also includes two tennis courts, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a futsal pitch, a handball court, a hotel, restaurants, and a covered swimming pool. Al-Talaba is defined as a sports club, not just a football one, and it has supported other sports at minor level only in the past. The foundation stone was laid by the former minister of higher education and scientific research, Ali al-Adeeb, in February 2014. The cost of the project is estimated to be $84 million and the duration of construction was expected to be 30 months, meaning that by 2017 the Al-Talaba Sports City should have been open. Due to the financial crisis in Iraq, the project was scratched after spending $4 million on designs.

## Rivalries

Al-Talaba is one of the four "Popular Teams" in Baghdad, the others being Al-Zawra'a, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Al-Shorta. All the four Popular Teams have rivalries with each other. Al-Talaba's arch rivals are Al-Zawra'a and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya because of their constant battles to win the Iraqi Premier League over the years.

## Statistics

### Recent seasons

The season-by-season performance of the club over the recent years:

As of 14 July 2024.Rank = Rank in the league; P = Played; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points; Cup = Iraq FA Cup. in = Still in competition; — = Not attended; 1R = 1st round; 2R = 2nd round; 3R = 3rd round; R16 = Round of sixteen; QF = Quarterfinals; SF = Semifinals.

The league was not completed and was cancelled. Al-Talaba had not yet been eliminated from the cup but it was abandoned midway through.

### In international competitions

As of 10 May 2011:

## Current squad

### First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

## Personnel

### Current technical staff

## Honours

### National

- record

- shared record


Los Bitchos

# Los Bitchos

## Abstract

Los Bitchos is a pan-continental band based in London, England. The band consists of Western Australian-born Serra Petale (guitar), Uruguayan Agustina Ruiz (keytar, synthesisers), Swede Josefine Jonsson (bass guitar), and South London-born Nic Crawshaw (drums, percussion). They predominantly play instrumental music in the style of cumbia from the 1970s and 1980s.

## Career and sound

Los Bitchos was formed in London in 2017. Describing the band's sound, guitarist Serra Petale said "I wanted to sound like Van Halen and Cocteau Twins – but from Turkey", with the band also crediting influences from Petale’s mother’s '70s Anatolian rock records, Ruiz’ Latin-American music collection, Madonna’s ‘ La Isla Bonita ’ period, "out of control pop" from Jonsson, and punk thanks to Crawshaw’s time drumming in various punk bands.

The band went on to early releases with labels Blak Hand Records, Strong Island Recordings and Bad Vibrations.

In 2019, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos produced their sold-out debut 7" single ‘Pista (Great Start)’, described as sounding like "William Onyeabor discovering cumbia".

The band’s debut KEXP session, filmed at Trans Musicales Festival, was released on March 7, 2020. During the COVID lockdowns that followed shortly afterwards, the video gained traction on YouTube, attracting worldwide attention and has amassed over 2 million views. This was followed by a self-released sold-out seven-inch ‘The Link Is About To Die’ in 2020.

In July 2021, Los Bitchos featured on the track ‘Erkilet Güzeli’ by Turkish band Altin Gun.

They reunited with Alex Kapranos to record their debut album Let the Festivities Begin! which was released by City Slang in February 2022 alongside a European headline tour. Talking of the collaboration Jonsson said "We asked him to produce us again, and he brought out the best in us in a really encouraging way," with Petale adding "He used a lot of his vintage gear, including some cosmic synths that give our songs a bit of added sass".

They released their debut studio album Let the Festivities Begin! in February 2022, with the songs "Good to Go!", "Las Panteras" and "Pista (Fresh Start)" released as singles beforehand. Following the release of their debut record, the band received critical acclaim from the likes of BBC 6 Music, KEXP, Rolling Stone Magazine, NME and various other media outlets.

The band made their TV debut to a huge crowd at the Park Stage at Glastonbury in June 2023 as part of the BBC ’s coverage of the festival. In June 2024 the band performed live on France’s ARTE TV show Ground Control.

The band’s second album Talkie Talkie will be released on August 30, 2024, again via City Slang Records.

In 2021 Los Bitchos signed a publishing deal with Reservoir Media.

## Live career

Los Bitchos' debut show was supporting The Parrots, at Oslo Hackney on May 10, 2017.

Los Bitchos completed a European tour with Mac DeMarco in 2019 and supported acts like Ty Segall and Kikagaku Moyo in London.

A number of high-profile festival sets raised the profile of the band across Europe and North America. The band played sets to huge crowds at Coachella, SXSW, Glastonbury, Rock En Seine, End of The Road, Levitation and Wide Awake Festival. A sold-out tour of the UK followed the album's release.

In 2022, the band joined Belle & Sebastian on a US tour, as well as joining King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on a European tour in 2023.

They have also supported the likes of Pavement, Franz Ferdinand and Parquet Courts.

## Discography

Studio albums

- Let the Festivities Begin! (2022)

- Talkie Talkie (2024)


List of films with post-credits scenes

# List of films with post-credits scenes

## Abstract

Many films since the 1980s and earlier have featured mid- and post-credits scenes, also known as credit cookies. Such scenes often include comedic gags, plot revelations, outtakes, and/or hints about sequels.


Hilarigona cupari

# Hilarigona cupari

## Abstract

Hilarigona cupari is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.


Andrija Katić

# Andrija Katić

## Abstract

Andrija Katić (Serbian Cyrillic: Андрија Катић; born 17 February 2002) is a Serbian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Trenčín.

## Club career

### Jagodina

Born in Kruševac, Katić was a member of the Trstenik PPT academy, formed in the structure of Prva Petoletka industry. Later he moved to the Jagodina 's youth system, passing all categories with the club, usually playing with older generation. Katić joined the first squad in second half of the 2017–18 Serbian First League campaign as a third choice, behind Stefan Stojanović and Aleksa Milojević. At the age of 16 years and 57 days, Katić made his professional debut as a goalkeeper replacing Stefan Stojanović in 86th minute of the match against Sloboda Užice on 15 April 2018. In the next fixture match, against Temnić, Katić also joined the game in second half. Finally, Katić played full-time match against ČSK Čelarevo in the last fixture match of the 2017–18 campaign on 31 May 2018.

## Career statistics

## Honours

- Serbian SuperLiga: 2019–20


1980 in Germany

# 1980 in Germany

## Abstract

Events in the year 1980 in Germany.

## Incumbents

- President – Karl Carstens (West Germany)

- Chancellor – Helmut Schmidt (West Germany)

- General Secretary – Erich Honecker (East Germany)

- Prime Minister – Willi Stoph (East Germany)

## Events

- 18 to 29 February - 30th Berlin International Film Festival

- 20 March - Germany participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, held in The Hague.

- 26 September - Oktoberfest bombing

- 5 October - West German federal election, 1980

- 6 November - The Third Schmidt cabinet led by Helmut Schmidt was sworn in.

- unknown date - First modern guided bus opens in Essen.

## Births

- February 2 - Angela Finger-Erben, German journalist

- February 22 - Jeanette Biedermann, German singer

- February 28 - Stefan Konarske, German actor

- March 9 - Volker Bruch, German television actor

- March 18 - Juliette Schoppmann, German singer

- March 25 - Hanno Koffler, German actor

- May 2 - Tim Borowski, German footballer

- May 6 - Wolke Hegenbarth, German actress

- May 9 - Carolin Kebekus, German comedian

- May 16 - Jens Spahn, German politician

- June 13 - Sarah Connor, German singer

- June 16 - Sibel Kekilli, German actress

- July 4 - Fahri Yardım, German actor

- July 9 - Sebastian Sylvester, German boxer

- August 6 - Roman Weidenfeller, German football player

- August 28 - Petra Schmidt-Schaller, German actress

- December 4 - Stefan Pfannmöller, German canoeist

- December 29 - Yvonne Bönisch, German judoka

## Deaths

- 27 January - Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; (born 1905)

- February 6 Bernhard Eichhorn, German film composer (born 1904) Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (born 1895)

- Bernhard Eichhorn, German film composer (born 1904)

- Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (born 1895)

- February 21 — Alfred Andersch, German writer (born 1914)

- March 5 — Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (born 1887)

- April 22 — August von Finck Sr., German banker (born 1898)

- May 26 — Franz Bachelin, German art director (born 1895)

- June 8 — Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (born 1900)

- June 27 — Walter Dornberger, German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program (born 1895)

- September 3 - Fabian von Schlabrendorff, German jurist, soldier, and member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler (born 1907)

- October 18 - Hans Ehard, German politician (born 1887)

- December 11 — Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, German noblewoman (born 1892)

- December 24 — Karl Dönitz, German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II (born 1891)


Bnei Herzliya Basket

# Bnei Herzliya Basket

## Abstract

Bnei Herzliya Basket (Hebrew: בני הרצליה, lit. Sons of Herzliya), is a professional basketball club that is based in Herzliya, in the Sharon district in Israel. The club plays in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the top division of Israeli basketball. It has won the Israeli State Cup twice, most recently in 2022. The team was founded in 1985, and the team's colors are blue and white.

## History

The club was originally founded in 1985, under the name Hapoel Herzliya. In 2002, the club merged with Maccabi Ra'anana in a neighboring town, and was re-named Bnei HaSharon. The merger was entered into because of Maccabi Ra'anana's financial problems and Bnei HaSharon's relegation from the top-level Israeli Basketball Premier League, following the 2001–02 season.

At the end of 2010–11 season, the merger ended, and the team started playing only for the Israeli city of Herzliya. In 2012, the club was re-named Bnei Herzliya. In 2022, the club won the Israeli State Cup for the second time, beating Hapoel Tel Aviv 87:82 in the final.

## Titles and honors

### Domestic competitions

- Israeli State Cup

- National League (2nd)

## Players

## Notable players

- Paul Thompson 3 seasons: '92–'95

- Earl Williams 1 season: '93–'94

- John Hudson 3 seasons: '93–'96

- Steve Malovic 1 season: '95–'96

- David Thirdkill 1 season: '95–'96

- Lior Arditi 3 seasons: '95–'98

- Amir Muchtari 3 seasons: '95–'98

- Terence Stansbury 1 season: '96–'97

- Todd Mitchell 1 season: '96–'97

- Darnell Robinson 1 season: '97–'98

- Tal Burstein 3 seasons: '97–'00

- Terrence Rencher 3 seasons: '97–'99, '05–'06

- Augenijus Vaškys 1 season: '98–'99

- Petar Arsić 1 season: '98–'99

- Mark Dean 1 season: '98–'99

- Yaniv Green 3 seasons: '98–'00, '01–'02

- Norris Coleman 1 season: '99

- Greg Sutton 1 season: '99–'00

- Ufuk Sarıca 1 season: '01

- Tyson Wheeler 1 season: '01–'02

- Bryan Bracey 1 season: '01–'02

- Kenny Williams 1 season: '01–'02

- Andrew Kennedy 1 season: '01–'02

- Jarod Stevenson 3 seasons: '01, '02–'04

- Guy Pnini 4 seasons: '02–'06

- Meir Tapiro 3 seasons: '03–'04, '07–'09

- Alvin Young 1 season: '04–'05

- Nitzan Hanochi 5 seasons: '05–'08, '18–present

- Ugonna Onyekwe 3 seasons: '05–'06, '08–'10

- Ousmane Cisse 4 seasons: '05–'09

- Cookie Belcher 5 seasons: '05–'10

- Lee Nailon 2 seasons: '06–'07, '10–'11

- Jason Williams 3 seasons: '06–'08, '11–'12

- Erez Katz 6 seasons: '06–'12

- Shawn James 3 season: '08–'11

- Ira Newble 1 season: '09

- Isaac Rosefelt 4 seasons: '09–'13

- P. J. Tucker 1 season: '10

- Maceo Baston 1 season: '10–'11

- Dan Grunfeld 2 seasons: '10–'11, '13–'14

- Bryant Dunston 1 season: '11

- Ekpe Udoh 1 season: '11

- Tweety Carter 1 season: '11–'12

- Derrick Caracter 1 season: '12–'13

- Jumaine Jones 1 season: '12–'13

- Romel Beck 1 season: '12–'13

- Michael Umeh 1 season: '13–'14

- Oz Blayzer 2 seasons: '13–'15

- Josh Selby 1 season: '14–'15

- Julian Wright 1 season: '15

- Drew Crawford 1 season: '15–'16

- Karam Mashour 3 seasons: '15–'17, '18–'19

- Tom Maayan 3 seasons: '15–'18

- Taurean Green 2 seasons: '16–'18

- Jeff Adrien 3 seasons: '16–'19

- Orr Leumi 4 seasons: '16–20

- D'or Fischer


Admir Kecap

# Admir Kecap

## Abstract

Admir Kecap (Serbian Cyrillic: Адмир Кецап; born 25 November 1987) is a Serbian football left winger who plays for FK Rušanj.

## Career

Born in Novi Pazar, Kecap passed youth categories of the local club with same name. He started his senior career with lower ranked club Jošanica, where he spent several seasons before he returned in his home club in 2009. Playing for Novi Pazar, Kecap noted more than 150 caps in the Serbian First League and Serbian SuperLiga between 2009 and 2015. In summer 2015, Kecap moved to Sūduva Marijampolė, where he stayed until the end of 2016. After the end of contract with club, Kecap joined Novi Pazar again at the beginning of 2017.

Kecap also played a rival match for the team named "Selekcija novinara" (News writer's selection), which was created from players who mostly appeared in the Serbian SuperLiga, against Serbia national football team, at the Užice City Stadium.

## Private life

Kecap received a faculty diploma in 2013, and was nominated for the best sportsman of Novi Pazar in the same year.


690 BC

# 690 BC

## Abstract

The year 690 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 64 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 690 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

## Events and trends

### By place

#### China

- Duke Xiang of Qi, Duke Xuan of Chen, Zheng-zi Ying met at Chui(垂).

- Marquis of Ji(紀) does not surrender to Qi, and passed the throne to his younger brother, Ji Ji (紀季).

## Deaths

- King Wu of Chu

- Xuan Jiang, Chinese Duchess.