The Divine Codino returned to talk about Trapattoni’s decision not to take him to Japan and Korea after the record recovery: “I should have gone even with one leg, for what I had represented. For a thousand reasons it will be difficult for me”
“That was a shameful thing that for a thousand reasons will hardly pass”. Roberto Baggio returned to being excluded from the 2002 World Cup, after recovering in record time from a torn anterior cruciate ligament on 4 February, from which he returned on 21 April, scoring three goals for Brescia in the last two days. However, without being able to convince coach Giovanni Trapattoni to take him to Korea and Japan.
The bitterness
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“I don’t know, I just think that I should have gone even with one leg, for what I had represented”, is one of the passages of the interview given by the Divine Codino to Esquire. “I had done three World Cups in a certain way, that would have been the fourth, the story had to end like this. It was a betrayal that no, no… But then all of Japan would have been rooting for us! I returned from the injury for the last few three games in incredible conditions, I remember the tests I had in Bologna, and in fact in 3 games I scored 3 goals, in general in that championship 11 goals in 11 games. But above all there was more than a month left before the start of the World Cup, they could pick up and then evaluate the conditions. Instead, alright…”.
June 14th – 6.04pm
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