I'd say manual, rather than vocal.
Also, I haven't completely understood what no fascism might have to do with Juventus winning considerably less than OTL. Is the society still in the hands of the Agnelli clan?
But, shouldn't Corso play for Venice? He was from Verona AFAIR. And Zoff? How come is he an Italian citizen ITTL? He's from that part of Friuli which remained under Austria until the Great War.
Group A: England, by referee if necessary, but it won't be
Group B: Argentina or Hngary it depends on who plays its first match being fresh against the other team. (3-team groups are ABSURD).
Group C: Eusébio reigns supreme.
Group D: German cakewalk.
It seems like the recipe for an intra-Confederate civil war of their own down the line, as the Upper South tends to get more "Northernized" in economy and mentality.
AMERICANS will do the same to the Azores, as one of their opening moves.
Anyway, a joint operation against Spanish Morocco WITHOUT involving French possessions and with some German and Italian air presence in Andalusia would be extremely risky. It should be improvised in a few weeks, before...
It's strange how Italy ITTL despite having very different historical vicissitudes end up being, basically, an enlarged and more self-assured version of what it IS now, politically.
Revolution is not a dinner party, to quote Mao, who could give ample lesson in deviousness to Trotsky.
Sometimes it's even the Donner Party... Eating each other.
In Italy postwar and up to fairly recent times the mob was mobilized by the so-called "moderates" to, ahem, "contain" the Communists.
Their relation with the extreme rightwing was long and productive.