Alessandro Melli tells his career

Peter Pan did not even have the effort to leave, the island that was not there had two roundabouts from his home. Parma, 90s, the best youth of Italian football was there and most of all was recognized in Sandro Melli, who could become the new avenue, but marked his responsibility with a fake body, unbalanced a fate that had other floors. Today Peter Pan Melli is a resolved man – he is responsible for the purchasing office of a company that assembles pharmaceutical machines – and when he looks in the rear view of life he does not regret anything, but smiles at the memory.

Who was Sandro Melli?

“I gave 50% of my potential. I had everything, physical and technique. It was the trap to say that I could become the new Viallo and Mancini himself, when I wanted to Sampdoria, he did it because he had seen in me the qualities of Luca. Parma was my luck, but also my limit. I was in my comfort zone. Something we won – Cup of Cups at Wembley, Italian Cup, UEFA Super Cup – The winning mentality of the great teams was missing “.

Nevio Scala said about her: “He is the best boy, more genuine and more naive than Italian football”.

“It’s my photograph, Scala was a father, with him I had a love-hatred relationship. He used a stick and carrot, but I didn’t understand. He was right, he did it to stimulate me. As president of Parma he did not keep the promises he had made me: we collided, I was right. Now we have a wonderful relationship, we love each other”.

Arrigo Sacchi launched it in professionals in Serie C.

“December 1985, I was sixteen, I will always be grateful to him. He already lived then for football. When I saw him I thought it was a crazy, but it was more: a visionary. Two coaches have changed football in the last forty years, bags and guardiola”.

With Ancelotti she did not bind.

“In Parma, a period of bad results, gathered the team, took a chair, sat in the middle of the locker room. ‘He said:’ Each of you speaks freely ‘. When I came my turn I said that I hoped it was exonerated, so I would play more. On that occasion the worst of me came out. But then we came seconds and Ancelotti thanked me because I had given my contribution”.

“The most beautiful person I met in football. Serious, loyal, competent. You went to him and you said: ‘Mister, I have bad ankle’. And he with his cantilena: ‘You run … you run stronger and stronger … So it passes immediately’. Once we return from a trip to three in the morning, the hotel is closed, we do not know how to enter. Let’s see one who climbs a plant, clinging to a balcony, And reappearing the door: it was Zeman.

With Boskov he had a lot of fun.

“Thursday match, he had been in Perugia for three months. Indicating me, he makes his deputy: ‘Bravo that boy!’. The deputy whiten. Boskov approaches and makes me: ‘I like you, I make you debut on Sunday’. (I laugh) I was 29 years old, I had played 9 seasons in Serie A. I see him at the parking lot outside the stadium, he stops me: ‘I give me a passage at home? And he: ‘No, I follow you with the car …’.

At Milan she pissed off bad hair.

“Absolute champion. He knew football, but he mainly knew the players. He believed a lot in me. I had just recovered from an injury, he does me: ‘From today you are the center forward’. Rest day, I go back to Parma, I’m going to play a volleyball match with friends, I break my ankle. I massacred me and had all the reasons”.

Career final in Ancona with Spalletti.

“Excellent coach, a really good person and out of the field also nice. His limit? Every now and then he is a slave to his character”.

What was its turning point?

“A teammate and friend, Fausto Pizzi. We met at the military, then in Parma. Thanks to him I understood that in football I could do something”.

The craziest footballer with whom he played?

“Very easy: Tino Asprilla. In the field and outside: a circus. End training, takes the ball and indicates the president Pedraneschi who is speaking on the phone twenty meters further on: ‘Now I hit him in the face’. Pum! Centered in full, the Pres falls on the ground like a piping. We notice worried, tino laughs: how do you do not love one?”.

“In Parma Zola, in absolute Baggio. I only played two games in the national team, one with him, in Trieste, against Estonia. We are in the room together. I am very excited. Albertini and Lentini make me: ‘Tomorrow morning if you have to go to the bathroom wake up soon’. There I don’t understand there. I don’t understand, I go to the bathroom, it is closed, there is Baggio inside. Appearance, they feel strange noises …. Dong … Tlin … ‘I think the pipes have broken, but I am polite and not knock on ten minutes, twenty, half an hour.