With Gigi Fresco saying goodbye to Virtus Verona after 44 years, a pillar of football romance falls. The others? There are those who said no to Fidel Castro, those who rewrote the history of their country, those who “cannot be reduced to an interview”
Until resignation does them part. Everything ends, even love on the bench. It also happened between Gigi Fresco and Virtus Verona. Forty-four years later, a lifetime. It started in 1976 with the chicks, he said he was only twelve years old. From the third category, that football a little mon amour. Up to Serie C, the dawn of the professionals. “But I dream of B,” he once said. When the bond is solid it goes a long way. Long-lived, faithful, ultra-loyal. They are not disposable coaches, but solid realities that remain in place for a long time.
