The former champion tells himself: “I cried only by root. Debut in a 17 years: I pass the ball to the attacker he scores. Dino still reproaches me the goal of Falcao”
“Boy heated, Bearzot does me. But there was little to warm up to the 40 degrees of Sarrià. The buffet of Cabrini and are inside Italy-Brazil, to mark Serginho”. And to make the history of our football and beyond, Beppe Bergomi, eighteen and a couple of mustache that had made his partner Marini exclaim “but I seem my uncle”, a nickname remained forever. Bergomi is one of the last flags, twenty years at Inter, and today is the first “second voice” of Sky with Fabio Caressa.
At eighteen, the chills for a question, let alone a world championship …
“But there is unconsciousness, and everyone is well arranged towards young people. I was the last reserve of the defenders, then Vierchowod gets hurt and when collided he has to go out …”.
Fortunately Serginho was not Romario.
“But it was enormous, a totem. I finish the game by branding Socrates who then gives me the shirt, with his disenchanted ways. Unforgettable, even if Dino always reproaches me:” If you didn’t deflect a little the Falcao shot I would not have taken the 2-2 “”.
Dino is Zoff, the captain.
“He was 40 years old, I 18. I didn’t give him her, but he was a leader, just two words were enough. In the first games he immediately said to me:” Do not stay on the line, go mark in the area. “Tardelli and kind similar personality, did not give you smiles. Cabrini, Paolino and antognoni sweeter. I believe that Zoff is also behind the rest of my world championship”.
“After Brazil I thought I was playing, but Bearzot makes me:” With Poland you are on the bench, they have one tip “. Thank you, you can show up, I am already happy, I say to him.” Beppe passes: “Beppe, the long postponements tomorrow you make them, I have a pain”. I? But if I don’t play? At the technical meeting they are in formation … Bearzot always confronted with Dino “.
She had made her debut in the Italian Cup at 16.
“Bersellini did well to warm up, it was January in Turin, great cold. There were only Italians, it was easier to make his way. In the morning I went to school, in the afternoon I trained, Mazzola and Beltrami pushed for a young man, I or Fontanini. I won me.”
A year later, debut in the championship.
“With Como. Can be hurt, I enter and, at the first head posting, I do everything that should not be done: short and central postponement, Gobbo arrives and goals”.
“I made accountant, after the third year he became more difficult and I couldn’t even do the two -year period that was missing. Fortunately I had good foundations.”
AC Milan dad, she auditions to Milan.
“He had a car rental in Settala. He died in 1980, mom was left alone at 49 years old and was extraordinary. A omone of 1.90, if a ball was pierced, she immediately bought another one.” Defender? You make the attacker, he earns more ”. He took me to Milan, they took me but I was very young and I went back to March. At the end of the season they found rheumatism in the blood and left me at home. Then Inter arrived.”
70s, he played on the street.
“Six hours a day, six hours a week as today in schools. I went to the oratory and Don Narciso, my father’s broom, a very good fucking companion, while the Don was scarce. He always kept the oratory closed, we climbed over, the nuns told him, he hunted us and we went on. Until dinner time”.
From Don Narciso to his technicians: Bersellini …
“” Go inside, Marca Nicoletti ‘, he told me before the Como. Few words, beautiful person. The debut in the Cup Champions with the Red Star, after a long retreat, went back to Settala and on his return the bus arrived late. He didn’t said anything to me, but what frost. ”
“Radice is the only one I cried for when I discovered that he would go away, because Pellegrini arrived with Castagner: I was in the national team, Collovati looked at me amazed, but Gigi was an exceptional man. With trap the five more beautiful years at Inter. Great motivator. He arrives and makes me:” Beppe, now just go with the ass on the ground “, at the time there were many slipped. And the Gazzetta asks his head. Understood”.
Then Orrico, Bagnoli and Simoni.
“With Orrico we were ready to accept the change: we could not. Bagnoli made today’s football in ’92, defense with three pure, asked the outside to be high, we did not understand why. Every now and then he complained in Milanese:” My teams always play very well, because here I can’t? ” He indicated the field and said: “You are all the same. Whoever deserves play. ”I regained the national team, I will always be grateful to him, he is in my heart”.
Beautiful lesson for today’s blues.
“The shirt, the pride, a refuge if in the championship goes badly, and there everything was forgotten, even if on Sunday you had quarreled with vialli and Mancini”.
The strongest he played with?
“Ronaldo had unparalleled speed technique. Matthaus a unique leader. We lose 1-0 after the first half, I have my head in my hands:” Hey, what is there? Now I sign. He scored. “He did not study the calendar:” Where are we on Sunday? Ah, in Lecce? Let’s win! “. He ended 3-0. Always in contrast with Trap, but he stopped to learn the left shot. He thanked him everything.”
How did Juve-Inter live in ’98?
“I was in the stands because the week before, with Udinese, to be warned, at the first intervention it was yellow … it was the real game, not the derby. Those of the great Inter, Mazzola, Suarez, Corso, spoke of Juve, not Milan, since the time of 9-1”.
Today he plays central paired with Caressa.
“He and Claudio Arrigoni, director of Tele+.” You have the wrong person, “I say. I was different, shy. We make a audition with a Juve-Milan without a voice and they take me. Arrigoni gives me three rules:” In an hour Fabio speaks 45 ‘and you 15’, if you have nothing to say don’t speak, and I don’t overcome him “.
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