The Italian champion defender 1980: “I passed from Inter to Milan in B: they said nothing to me, then it was used like this. I didn’t train because I didn’t want to be fired, but on the beach I found the opportunity to change my life”
Nazzareno Canuti, called Nazza. Born in Inter. He lives in Cinisello Balsamo, he is 69 years old, he has sports. Every day, from 9 to 11, it is in the pool. He has a beautiful cheerful voice, tells the stories of the past and has fun. Sign the WhatsApp messages with a black heart and one blue and says: “Inter is Inter: you love”. He begins soon: “As a gruesome, at 14. I saw Boninsegna mark in overturned at Foggia: 5-0 and Scudetto”. Nazza marries very young, at 20 years old. Alessia was born immediately. The “president” of Inter, Lady Renata Fraizzoli, is moved: “Pòr Fioeuhe is a child dad. ”
Canuti, a Nerazzurri life. The beginning?
“In Rogoredo, with a audition, from the oratory of pre -cooked, right wing. There was Enea Masiero who said to me: ‘We have wings, make the full back’. After a while they said to me: ‘Enough so, coated’. What a disappointment. I went out to head down, almost crying. An manager stopped me: ‘What did you understand? And you are from Inter ‘”.
“He did not know about the audition, he would not have wanted, to avoid disappointments. Dad was a practical one, he was a driver in Bozzolo, in the Mantuan, went to get the milk on the farms and took him to Piadena. Then we came to Milan and led the ATM buses”.
She led the defense of Inter.
“Well, guide … I was stopper. Bini free. They said we were beautiful, almost twins and he pretended to get pissed off. We were all very close friends in that Inter. Even if ‘Tiger’ Bersellini made us suffer …”.
“It was really an iron sergeant. Not like that of the Marines of Full Metal Jacket, but we are there. Rude and rude, it made us work as damned. Two hours and more of continuous running, in retreat, for the mountains, gymnastics, abs, shots”.
Is it true that at 21, just with the arrival of Bersellini, she wanted to stop?
“Yes, I had made his debut with Beppe Chiappella. I was fine, I played enough. But after four days of Bersellini I didn’t want to know anymore. I was a dog, I was a corpse. He convinced me Facchetti. ‘Board patience, Eugenio is done so. But it’s not bad. You’re close to me, you will see that he will change'”.
It ended well. With Bersellini you have become champions of Italy.
“In the 1977-78 season, I was launched as a owner by Bersellini. Cipe Facchetti was right, I inserted myself and I really understood what it means to be a professional: it was he, Tiger, who taught me to fight, work and suffer”.
Even too much, it seems. All those of Inter 70s say it: a real tough.
“Beppone Chiappella was different. When, in 1976, my daughter Alessia was born to me: ‘Go, go immediately from your little girl’. I didn’t have the car, Oriali lent me his, a BMV 520. I went and went back and the next day I played. When instead Christian, the second, began, Bersellini pretended nothing. He knew, but he did not give me the house Giancarlo. He invented an abscess.
“Very well. I went, in the clinic, at the San Camillo, we went back immediately. The next day I played with Bologna and I scored a goal from the middle of Zinetti, canceled because I was offside a few centimeters beyond the line. And Bersellini said: ‘Eh, Nazza, you should have a son every week …'”.
Seven seasons at Inter. One at Milan in B. He didn’t want to go there, right?
“Yes. We were on tour in Chile, I was very pissed off. But how? Suddenly, without telling me anything? They had inserted me, together with Pasinato and Serena, in the collided deal. But it could not be refused, then it worked like this. Then I was happy, we won, there were splendid boys and Ilario Castagner, great person, sensitive and delicate coach”.
Then Genoa, Catania in B and Stop. He stopped at 31, a little early. No?
“I was tired, I went to Solbiatese, I wanted to try in amateurs. The coach was Pierino Prati, we won the championship and left everything.”
Have you never thought of being a coach?
“No, never. And he knows why? I didn’t want to be fired. I put myself back into play. I was on vacation in Forte dei Marmi, my umbrella neighbor was Claudio Borroni, Sony’s Lombard manager. We immediately tied. He offered me to work with him. ‘Try a month and see. If you don’t want to, soft’. I made my second life in another field, that of the electronics. Become president of Sony Europe, I manager.
And laughs. Inter always in the heart?
“Always, Forever. With Inter I experienced beautiful moments. Also some disappointments, such as the failure of the cup cup champions after beating Real Madrid in the return of the semifinal. But I played in a great team and I marked, and often canceled, the greatest strikers: Paolo Rossi, Giordano, Pulici, Bettega, Chiarugi, Novellino. Not bad, Eh?”.
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