The Granata President celebrates the 20th year at the helm of the club: “At the beginning there were not even the balls, it was a large ride”
“It was twenty years that I lived with great pathos, emotion, passion and desire to do well”. From here begins the president of Turin, Urbano Cairo, who spoke last night in Telelombardia during the broadcast “Here I study to you Stadium”, to tell his twenty years (the anniversary fell yesterday) at the helm of the Taurus. “The commitment, desire and investments have never been missing”. It all started on September 2, 2005 and “in the twenty years before me the Toro had 7 different presidents, in the 10 years before me the bull had made 6 championships in B and 4 in A of which three times it is relegated. This is the bull that I took – recalls Cairo -. When I arrived in 2005 one of the voices that felt it was that in Turin two teams could not be coexized. the bull that had failed “.
future
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There are twenty years flying away from financial and sporting stability, of reconstructed philadelphia, of Robaldo (the center for the newly born youth team), of a youth sector returned to being strong and winning, of a bull that for 14 years has been in Serie A. “We have done so many good things, there cannot be only the commonplace that is all negative”. On the agenda of President Cairo there are three ideas for the future: “The Olympic Stadium owned is an important thing, we will talk about it with the mayor of Turin as soon as possible: it is something I would like to do”. Second: “Another goal that I place myself in the next two years is to bring the Toro Museum back home, today it is in Grugliasco”. Third: “The promises are no longer made, what matters is to make a team as competitive as possible. If we are here to invest and do the deck, and this year’s balance sheet will not be in profit, it is because we want to do something better than last year. I work to do a bull that gives satisfaction to the fans”.
memories
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Of these twenty years he sets three moments. “It always remains inside me as a great emotion the promotion obtained on June 11, 2006, 9 months and 9 days after taking the presidency – he says – at the beginning there were not even the balls: it was a large ride that we did with De Biasi coach, and a team put together from one day to the next”. The second: “Another very beautiful vintage was the third with Ventura, where at 8 games from the end we had 39 points. We made a pact with the coach and the players to make 8 finals: we did 18 points, we got septimi at 57 points and we could go to Europe until the round of 16, overcoming Bilbao at the sixteenths. We are the only Italian to have beaten them in their house”. The third: “The championship with Mazzarri, in 2018-19, arrived seventh with a second round in which we were fourth”.
Today
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The latest reflections are on today’s bull. “We built the team today with Mr. Baroni and with the director Vagnati trying to make it competitive. I don’t want to make proclamations, also because we started really badly with that bad defeat at San Siro against Inter, who was very sorry and made me very angry. The team in my opinion is there, some players like Simeone and Ngonge are finding the best form. It is on the track, to do things right. The market has brought eight new players: “Eight new players, some are really very strong. Asllani, for example, can be important to allow Casadei, Gineitis, Anjorin, Ilic and Vlasic to be able to score. He can give us something good”.
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