Fractures or inflammations, but the ending is always the same for the unfortunate tip of Atalanta and national: accidents on accidents that have heavily undermined its performance in the last 12 months
The fate of Gianluca Scamacca applies with a constancy not required to raise the bar of difficulties. The attacker, after a year spent observing, working and hoping, had to leave the national team retreat for an inflammation to the left knee due to joint overload. From August 4, 2024 to today, that apticcella has also raised itself too.
The first stop
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At the Tardini of Parma, on August 4, 2024, a good summer test was staged to prepare the imminent European Super Cup against Real Madrid. A preparatory match for the championship that would start after mid -August. Destiny presented the first report in Scamacca: breakage of the left front cruciate ligament. Pain mixed with anger. At Atalanta, and not only, the affection for the Roman striker has become an infinite protective embrace. The company was simultaneously running for cover by purchasing Mateo Rettegui within a few days and organized the surgical operation for Gianluca in the following 24 hours. Successful intervention and rehabilitation started immediately. And here the character of Scamacca emerged. Of which no one has ever questioned robustness. It was a proof of resistance and restart. The following season had seen him protagonist with Atalanta, at the center of the attack of a goddess who ran very strong in the Europa League to the point of arriving before all the others to grab it and raise it under the Dublin sky. Gianluca was the attacker that Gian Piero Gasperini could use as the final act of the script of a goal or as an illuminated director just outside the area. Bergamo set him in history forever and Bergamo waited for him in the long recovery. In February he returned for the match against Turin right in front of the Bergamo people. A few seconds, a taste of great beauty that has become very bad immediately. Another stop, as if fate had waved him under his eyes the idea of leaving and had changed it immediately with a vernacling.
The second stop
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The bar rises again and the flight to Barcelona is not the same as the companions took a few days earlier to play at the Montjuic in the Champions League against the Blaugrana. It is a plane that takes him to Catalonia to surgically intervene again: repair of the injury of the proximal muscle-tendon joint of the femoral rectum of the right thigh. First the left knee, then the right thigh. A democratic fate will be said. It would have been better to stop at the first. And here, in the midst of convalescence, the spiritual factor also takes over. It is necessary to fight not only physical pain, but also the hematomas of mood. And Scamacca’s challenge is double, an overload of emotions. Gianluca sets the new goal, or the following season. The support of Atalanta is complete, as well as that of fans and family members. In addition there is also a wedding to be organized. The date is that of June 4, appointment in the Basilica of the Saints Giovanni and Paolo di Roma. Gianluca marries Flaminia Depolloni and the Union is an extra vitamin. Summer is made of work as well as relaxation. The attacker trains without stopping, presents himself at the Atalanta rally with an enthusiasm from the very first day of school. You have to use caution to brake it from how much she would like to play and push. Ivan Juric must manage it from the first tests. Nothing to worry, only reasoning in the face of emotion. The championship immediately presents the most beautiful ticket: goal at the debut against Pisa. Owner against the Tuscans and also on the second day against Parma, in that stadium that had marked the first serious stop. The convocation in the national team was the second most shiny ticket of 2025.
Inflammation
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But fate is obviously not satisfied. And so a few hours after the departure for Bergamo with the national team to challenge Estonia, he anticipates the group and returns to Zingonia for an inflammation of the left knee due to joint overload. The circle remains open, he would have closed with this game with Italy. Now we proceed with caution in the evaluations, day after day following the therapies that the Atalanta medical staff will decide from time to time. The game with Lecce at the resumption of the championship remains nine days away. For a guy who waited for a year, they are like whiskers of warm air.
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