The new Giallorossi coach will aim to recreate the magic produced with Atalanta in Rome
Who knows, probably Oriana Fallaci would have interviewed him and inserted in his book “The antipatics”, next to Gianni Rivera and Alfred Hitchcock. Gian Piero Gasperini, the antipathic. Roma announced it with the acronym for iconic monuments: Gianicolo, altar of the homeland, San Pietro, Pantheon. But much of the Giallorossi fans, in the abbreviation Gasp, read us: great antipathic on the bench. Even Claudio Ranieri, during yesterday’s presentation, took the stamp “was unpleasant to me too …”. Why this clear label?
Perhaps because, if Gasp has the feeling that Church falls too much on the ground, he says it (Florence); If the referees are wrong, as well; because it does not obey the ultras (Genoa); Perhaps because, in a circus of coded words and gestures, he uses few filters. Sometimes, he exaggerates (“worst rigorist look”). Certainly, it doesn’t make the players’ friend. He lacks the vernacular and the bad words of the Tuscan colleagues who always work. Yesterday Gasp did not say “Daje!”, Neither quoted verses of Belli, no Mourinhata, but made smiles, remembering that no one has never died in Zingonia. Gasperini knows two things very well. The first: the challenge will win if the team becomes “nice”, in the etymological sense of the term, that is, capable of “feeling and suffering together”, in Trigoria and in the game. For work intensity, unity of spirit and tactical connection, in the last ten years, there has been no more “nice” team than Atalanta. He must recreate the magic in Rome. Second thing: on the fourth day there is already the derby. If he wins, he will become more nice than Alberto Sordi.