The two coaches forged by the youth championships, made resilient by a difficult past, planati in Serie A in the teams of life and a career as defenders lived on different and distant planets
The thread that binds Fabio Pisacane and Cristian Chivu is more often than you think. The common points are different: forged by the youth championships, made resilient by a difficult past, planati in Serie A in the teams of life and a career as defenders lived on different and distant planets, such as Uranus and Mercury. Pisacane torn a ticket for the first class of Italian football at the age of thirty and after a life of a true apprenticeship, while Chivu at the age of 21 was already the captain of the Ajax. In 2010 he won the Triplete in the Nerazzurri after playing a wing semifinal. Saturday they will meet in Cagliari-Inter after challenging each other in the spring, vintage 2023-24, same race. Results: 1-1 in the first leg, 3-0 for Chivu on the return.
The previous two
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The first comparison in September, Rimasugli in summer: in Sardinia he ended 1-1 with goals by Captain Michele Carboni, today at Torres in C, and Luca di Maggio, midfielder of Padua. Among the ranks of Inter there were Akinsanmiro, Stankovic Junior, Berenbruch, Cocchi, Given, Calligaris. Today almost everyone plays in Inter Under 23. The tip of Cagliari was Mutandwa. On the way back, however, Chivu trimmed three slaps with Owusu, Berenbruch and Sarr. That year he closed the championship in first place and came out to the semifinals against Sassuolo, then victorious against Roma. Cagliari was unable to hit the playoffs.
The story of Pisacane
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Saturday will be another story. Although in the end life made them closer. Pisacane risked being paralyzed and not playing anymore. Started by the Spanish neighborhoods of Naples, at 14 he was in the youth of Genoa together with Mimmo Criscito. One day he called at home with suffering: “I’m tired, I can’t even move.” Dad Andrea thought what he would have thought more or less anyone at that moment: lactic acid, annoyance from tough preparation, the classic phrase of a boy returned “packed” by training. Nobody had understood: it was the guillain-barré syndrome, a disease where the immune system attacks the nervous system causing temporary paralysis and breaking down the muscle tone. “All my efforts were aimed at fighting for a more precious good: life”. Fabio goes in a coma twenty days, remains three months in the hospital and risks not walking anymore, but despite everything he returns to play, raises his head and debuts in B at 19 years old. In twenty -nine he made his debut in Serie A. In 2016 the Guardian rewarded him as “athlete of the year” because of his “great inspiration” history. Last year he won the Italian spring cup with Cagliari as a coach. A second life.
Chivu’s helmet
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Chivu’s story is more known. On January 6, 2010, following a clash with Sergio Pellissier during Chievo-Inter, he reported a cranial fracture. “I risked not being able to speak and move the left side of my body,” he said. “I feared I couldn’t talk to my daughter anymore.” Cristian returned to the field on March 24 against Livorno, but not alone: from then on he will always be accompanied by a protective helmet. “Wearing it gave me calm and serenity. Indeed, at a certain point I also removed it. And I threw it into the Champions League won in 2010. Together with the helmet, in that trophy, I took everything: the fears, the uncertainties, the sacrifices I had faced”. Pisacane knows what it means.
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