Reporter Jane Franchi Who knows how many top players of yesterday learned to kick a football in the playground.

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The transformation began with the purchase in 1995 of Franchi, another gunmaker in Gardone Val Trompia that had run into difficulties.

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Two statements in western Tuscan farm-direct foods (which also provide insight into ingredients you discover on restaurant menus) can be found at Macelleria Franchi and, across the narrow Via Vittorio Emanuele, the fruit and vegetable store La Cerreta.

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With first-choice penalty takers Adrian Mutu and Stevan Jovetic both injured, Vargas took responsibility to score his first goal of the season at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, placing his penalty into the top left-hand corner of the goal.

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