The Venetian technician among the memories in clubs and the blue touched: “Thanks to me Robi no more back problems. In 2016 the FIGC had contacted me for the after Conte …”
In the summer, Villasimius can become a dangerous place: “The other day I lived in direct fires, near my holiday home”. Gianni De Biasi enjoys the sea of Sardinia. Blue water, red fire: “It went well, nobody got hurt, but …”. De Biasi, a former midfielder, today coach, awaits a call: “experience makes me feel strong, I can still give a lot”.
Gianni De Biasi da Sarmede, Treviso.
“Near San Martino di Colle Umberto, the town of Ottavio Bottecchia, the cyclist who won the tour and who died massacred from the barrel, never understood why. There are those who say that they led him because he took a bunch of grapes, who tells more. As a child this story hit me.
As a child it was Juventus, then …
“I stopped on the day when I played against it for the first time, with Pescara. Those Juventus (the Juve of the first Trap, late 70s, editor’s note) were of absolute dislike. On the field the masters of the steam were felt, they practiced a snobbery from phenomena. From then on my Juventinity has fallen. Today they are tight only for the teams that I train”.
Inter was also a disappointment for her.
“Season 1975-76, I am a midfielder of beautiful hopes and put me in the room with Sandro Mazzola, a myth. Mazzola keeps the light on until late at night because he has to write his autobiography (The first slice of cakereleased in 1977, ed). ‘Gianni, does the lamp annoy you?’ And I: ‘But no, we would miss it.’ Instead yes, it disturbed me a lot of sleep. The real bitterness, however, is another, it is the lack of debut in Serie A. In Perugia I am about to enter, then someone is hurt and the coach, Chiappella, changes the choice, makes Acanfora enter. Moral: zero appearances in the Inter of the greats, only spring “.
De Biasi, a battle median.
“In reality I was born Mezzala. Brescia was the team in which I played the most and in which I had Gigi Simoni as a coach. He called me his ‘horse’, I would have thrown myself into the fire for him. A master. In Brescia I arrived as a counterpart in the Beccalossi deal. To mark the ‘Becca’ was impossible, you never took away the ball, to stop him.
“I did the Gavetta Vera, in the deepest province. I never had a prosecutor, I said twice no to Gea. I climbed the mountain without using the helicopter. Those who arrive at the top with the ice ax enjoy a better panorama”.
At Brescia he trained Robi Baggio.
“In 2003-04, his last season. Training him was very easy: ‘People want to see Robi Baggio’, I said to him, and stop. He had knees in pieces and this caused him back problems. Dr. Gibaud. One day I do it: ‘Robi, try this band’. He takes it, wears her, plays us and does not give it up more: the trouble is resolved, stabilized the posture. Now that I think about it: ‘Robi, that thing you have not returned to me! Quiet, joke ‘. Baggio was an indescribable champion, moved by an unstoppable passion. I saw him suffering: ‘Robi, if you can’t do it …’. And he, in the Venetian dialect: ‘Mister, I Zogo (game, ed)’ “.
Turin, another nice chapter.
“Promotion in Serie A on the first shot, the exemption, the return and salvation. Then another lap and another salvation. With the president, Urban Cairo, there were misunderstandings, all resolved. I made myself a great pleasure that he invited me to his birthday and that from the stage he said: ‘At the beginning of my path to Toro I made a madness, I exonerated De Biasi’. I have been, even if … in installments.
Albania, De Biasi’s masterpiece.
“Qualified to the 2016 European Championship, with Vittoria in Portugal, against CR7. And the friendship with the President Edi Rama, a Juventus hump, but which matters. Rama has modernized Albania, brought it to the future. Today Tirana is a young and dynamic city. When Rama deliver me the cross of Scanderbeg, the maximum honor of the country, threatened to withdraw the Italian passport if I had signed for someone else … Rama gave me the Albanian diplomatic passport, with which I go everywhere and that has solved me various problems in difficult countries.
In 2016, before the European Championship, she was one step away from Italy.
“Michele Uva called me, then general manager of the FIGC. Ct Conte had announced that, after the European Championship, he would go to Chelsea and I was on pole to replace him. It is true that the president of the Albanian Football Federation, Armando Duka, told me that I could not give them up, that if I had gone to France as a resigning, I would have weakened Albania, but I think I was there. Great regret, indeed a terrible arrabbing “.
Didn’t they look for it to replace Spalletti?
“No and I was sorry. Today I feel thirty times better, I learned so much from the museum I took. The experience gives you higher knowledge.”
An extra-halcium desire?
“My daughter Chiara, ophthalmologist and ophthalmologist at the Civil Hospital of Pordenone, got married in June and I hope it makes me grandfather. I am the right age!”.
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