The son of the legendary “professor” tells the passion of his father, who disappeared twenty years ago live during a comparison with the former president of Genoa Preziosi: “He was a coach with a total dedication. He had to go to Juve and Napoli, but Montezemolo and Moggi …”
Franco Scoglio has changed the football vocabulary, inventing its own one of his. “I do not do poetry, I vertically”. “She, at the bottom, must stop her. Otherwise I speak to Minchiam“.” I hate Sampdoria and I do not miss an opportunity to reiterate it. “” That Libridine when I lose “. And so on, always direct and consistent with his character. Yet the former Genoa coach was not only a set of cult phrases. Today he resorts the 20th anniversary of his death, a disappearance that a visionary as a rock is almost like a sorcerer for timing and methods. Genoa “, the Professor’s prophecy had been years earlier. And exactly so went: struck down by a cardiac arrest on live television precisely on October 3, 2005, while the former rossoblù coach discussed with the then president of the Griffin, Enrico Preziosi. An animated but civil confrontation. The tones come on, then Scoglio makes a hint with his hand and brings his head back through an unnatural movement in the squir study. and died.
Tobias, how many times did the images of the evening revised in which his father died live?
“Many, and at the beginning it was very bad. For the first 2-3 years it seemed to me a horror film, then with the passage of time I managed to make a reason. Also because the images are not very clear, it seems that my dad falls asleep. I asked a friend to make them removed from the net, but he explained to me that then someone would put them back online. He would become a useless battle”.
Scoglio turned a lot during his coaching career, what relationship managed to establish us?
“Among all the children I have always been the most calciumophile: I have two sisters who do not follow the ball and a brother interested in tennis while I was traveling 850 kilometers from Kaiserslautern, when I lived there, to Genoa. Dad called me before I agree with Genoa (three parenthesis as a technician in rossoblù, editor’s note) saying to me strong that I am surprised to you … It was always the bench of the Griffin “.
When the relationship between Scoglio and Genoa ended, the professor always suffered a lot …
“He anguished, he afflicted himself, devastated himself. Because he was a coach with a total dedication, different from the others: he did not work for money, but for passion. So much so that in 2001 he left leaving most of his engagement to the club. For Genoa. With other teams, the money rightly took them.”
A visceral passion, that for the rossoblù.
“I remember an episode before a derby in April 2001, we were together in a hotel room on the eve of the game. I woke up at 4 am to drink some water and found dad on the bed with about twenty sheets and blackboards who studied the formation. He did not consider me even, he said only ‘waiting, silent, shut up that I don’t know if to put jacket or more advanced jacket. So, so I decided to call my son Francesco Scoglio Jr “.
And in fact, in order to save Genoa in B, Scoglio gave up a CT CT of Tunisia.
“It was January, the national team was already qualified and played an excellent football. The Griffin was very bad, it was penultimate. The team went to Salerno with Onofri on the bench but the formation made her dad from afar. And a few days later it returned to Genoa. The city had a stronger call even than a World Cup on him. Then, in his head, he made great films: he was convinced of saving the Genoa and The Tunisian managers offended and did not accept double assignment.
Juve sought rock, then nothing was done. Why?
“Not only Juve, but also Maradona’s Napoli. Everyone wooed my father. But Montezemolo replaced Boniperti and decided to take Maifredi. While Moggi, at Napoli, after some assessments he chose to keep Bigon. In that season, among other things, Spinelli proposed to dad to remain but unfortunately refused, and the year after Genoa he went to Europe with Bagnoli. He would never have admitted it, but in the house yes “.
Among the many quotes of his father who became cult, what is his favorite?
“Without a doubt ‘I do not do poetry, I verticalize’. It reflects my thoughts with my son Francesco, who would like to become a footballer. I try to give him the same advice that I think he would give him his grandfather, for him a legend. But it is not bad even that relating to the 21 ways to beat a corner kick …”.
Does Genoa need a Franco Scoglio on the bench today?
“I am sure that my father would do better than Vieira, as my father would be: a man sure of his possibilities. It is true that Genoa sold without replacing and for a coach it becomes difficult, indeed I myself thought that the team was on the strongest card. But I would go up the Genoa safely”.
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