a new vhl team?

[Matt thunder 444]

hey guys it's me, matt, how are you doing? I hope really fine.

Today I wanted to talk about my dumb idea for a new team in the vhl, based in a country that nobody really cares about, Italy.

 

So I know what you are saying: " Matt, why the hell would you put an hockey team in Italy, when there are some countries that are more cooler and love more hockey then Italy?"

Well the answer is easy, I live in Italy so it was easier for me finding some cool city where to put a team, and also, let's face it, Italy is really cool. (even if there is mafia or other things like that lol)

 

But let's start by the city, what will be the lucky city to be picked?

*drum rolls*

It will be Pavia!

Ok now you will ask me an other thing: " Where the hell is Pavia, I only know Rome, Milan, Naples and Venice as italian cities."

Well that's normal, I wanted to put an hockey club, in a city in Italy that  not many people knows, but where is Pavia?

 

Pavia is city located in the noth-west of Italy and it is in the Lombardy state, the city is also crossed by the river Ticino. (as you can see in photo 1)

The city counts right now 73,086 habitants.

 

But let's not talk about geography wich is boring (if you love geography please don't get angry at me), let me show some pictures so you can see that is not that bad.

 

 

So now that you have an idea of how Pavia is, let me talk about the history of this city, don't worry i won't talk much, but pay attention, it is very important for the name of the team.

 

Pavia history is boring and there isn't much to talk about, but there is an important thing that happened to this city, it was the capital of a kingdom, the lombard kingdom.

But  who were the lombards?

The lombards or longbards ( depends wich name you like the most) were a barbaric/germanic tribe that after the conquest of Italy of Justinian for the Byzantine empire, arrived and ruled over most of the italian peninsula, and their capital, as I've said before, was Pavia, that during that time (from 568 to 774) grew more and more and slowly became really important in Italy, but when the franks took Italy, the city went back to normality.

 

So, have you guessed the name? (I look like a quiz host)

*drum rolls*

the name will be the Pavia Lombards, cool right? the vhl need a little bit of germanic spice.

 

The color of the team will be red and white, because those are the colors of Pavia (very original right?) and also because I couldn't come up with some others idea.

 

And that's it, those were all my ideas for a team that won't exist, i hope you guys enjoyed it because this is actually the third city I had originally thought to host a vhl team in Italy, (for exemple i was thinking about Turin that would be named the Turin Bulls because the bull is the animal of the city, but, as you may already understand, there is already a team with bulls on it, so i changed my mind) I hope you guys will have a good end of the day and if you ever have any suggestion or you can't understand anything just write it in the comments, I'm very bad in english and I think it is normal if you guys won't understand anything.

 

609 words if I'm not wrong.

 

 

 

Edited April 10, 2021 by Matt thunder

[Gustav 6,413]

That and Italy is very low-key kinda sorta a hockey country. They actually have a national team that's ranked 15th. They're not ahead of much, but they're ahead of the UK and we have a team in London. So even though wanting a team in Italy wouldn't go over well, there's at least some hockey-related backup.

 

Also I love stupid geography facts so this was a fun read.