After the goal scored with the Trescore shirt – second category, Group I – he became one of the only four players to have scored in all our football championships: from the third category to Serie A. Then he recounts between memories and the past: “At Chievo Julio Cesar had amazing quality with his feet, Sartori was a giant”
Ten seconds to lift a weight that has been held inside for over a year. All you had to do was close your eyes and put the goalkeeper in the corner. Mattia Marchesetti saw the ball go in and burst into tears: “It had become anguish. I wanted the record at all costs.” Yep, the record. Because after the goal scored with the Trescore shirt – Lombardy’s second category, Group I – Marchesetti became one of the only four players to have scored in all our football championships: from the third category to Serie A. “I will have to send a message to Godeas, with whom I played in Mantua. I have achieved his record. I know we are in a very small club.”
Marchesetti, meanwhile the goal. How exciting was it?
“Great. I made a dream come true. After seeing the ball go into the net I burst into tears. As did the coach and several of my teammates. And just think, they told me on Sunday: ‘Mattia scores today’. They were prophetic.”
I realized a dream. After seeing the ball go into the net I burst into tears. As well as the coach and several of my teammates”
Until Sunday, they only lacked a goal in the Second Category. Was it a burden?
“Yes, anguish. Everyone asked me ‘when do you score?’. I wanted to take this whim and break this record at all costs. It was the icing on the cake in a journey that lasted more than twenty years. I will have to send a message to Godeas, with whom I played in Mantua. I achieved his record. I know we are in a very small club”.
In total there are more than one hundred career centers. Do you remember them all?
“I have like a database for my goals. I remember everything. Match, year, context. And now I’ve closed a circle. This was the last one of my career.”
“Yes, I chose to stop. From today I won’t play anymore. I’ve already told the coach that I’ll come to the last match to say goodbye, then that’s it. I’m 42 years old, I’ve done my job. Now I’d like to be a coach. I’d like to work with the kids, maybe in a professional youth sector.”
Chapter Serie A. Boasts a goal with Chievo and a handful of appearances between the yellow-blues and Samp. Do you think about it every now and then?
“Of course. I show my children the goal every now and then. ‘Do you see how dad was when he was young?’, I tell him. I remember it as if it happened yesterday. We were playing against Parma: Zanchetta’s throw, I cut behind Paolo Cannavaro and Frey went out. A dream. That goal will stay with me forever.”
I remember the goal in Serie A as if it happened yesterday. We were playing against Parma: Zanchetta’s throw, I cut behind Paolo Cannavaro and Frey missed on the way out.”
The first team to bet on her was Chievo. Memories?
“So many. Del Neri who asked me to step on the sideline. Baronio told me ‘when you see that I raise my head, you run’. And he put it on my feet. Amauri, on the other hand, wanted it strong in the middle. And he always scored goals.”
In the squad with her was Julio Cesar. A flash?
“I stayed to kick at the end of training and he never went away. I’m an Inter fan and I recommended myself to do well at the Nerazzurri. He laughed. And in fact he won everything. I remember an immense quality with his feet: throws, through passes, he did what he wanted. Sometimes he even played in midfield in practice matches and never disfigured himself.”
It had two great sporting directors: Sartori in Verona and Marotta in Genoa.
“Two great ones. Marotta at Samp introduced me to Mr. Novellino and to the whole locker room. While Sartori was someone who knew everything about everyone: every player in every category. And he called me unexpectedly some time ago, he wanted to know what I did for a living.”
The greatest emotion besides the goal for Frey?
“Entering San Siro, without a doubt. I played both with Milan and against Inter. Coming out of the tunnel and seeing the full curve… still gives me shivers today.”
Closing. The one on Sunday was the last one, the one in Serie A carries it in the heart, but which was the most important?
“I scored it with the Cremonese shirt, playoff with Sudtirol to go to C1. I was 21 years old. The stadium exploded, everyone shouted my name. I had grown up there. It was beautiful.”
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