The MotoGP legend reads the cards of the World Championship and of Italian motorcycling. On Sportweek you will also find the Serie A strikers told by Aldo Serena, plus interviews with Ceccarelli and Schwazer
April 14, 2023 ( edit April 14, 2023 | 2:04 pm)
Even if he doesn’t run anymore, he continues to have fun. Thanks to her team, the VR46, leading the MotoGP World Championship also thanks to the feats of Marco Bezzecchi, the 24-year-old from Rimini who grew up in the Tavullia Academy first in Termas, Argentina. We are talking, you will have understood, of the great Valentino Rossi who a Sportweek on newsstands on Saturday (2 euros together with the Gazzetta dello Sport) granted a rare interview, even more valuable for the content. Here are some excerpts: “Given how the team works and how the bikes perform, Bez can fight for the World Championship. The secret is a team of our people, friends who had already worked for us in the past. And then there’s Ducati, a scary bike, which makes the difference. There is now a huge rivalry between Marco and Pecco Bagnaia, the right, loyal ones. They train together at the ranch and this helps them grow. But it’s not easy to manage all relationships, especially if they get to play for the World Cup”. This and much more in the exclusive with Valentino, master of other talents such as Morbidelli and Marini, which even non-bicycle enthusiasts will be able to appreciate.
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As far as football is concerned, however, we deal with goals: goals that are scarce and goals that come from new ways. After years of abundance, this season our league has lost 119 goals in 28 days, and even more than in the previous ones. We analyzed the trend with a specialist like Aldo Serena and he explained that “with Covid and empty stadiums, the attention of the defenders decreased, without the buzz of the public, the perception of danger diminished. Then the Var, which sees everything, he canceled the dirty tricks, the half fouls in the area: now those who defend themselves hold back longer. And finally there is the question of the centre-forwards, who today shoot less on goal and play more on the sidelines, for their teammates”.
Call me Bomber
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But there are strikers who keep shooting and scoring a lot on goal. The Neapolitan Victor Osimhen, for example, top scorer with 21 goals, or the Atalanta Ademola Lookman, third with 13, both Nigerians. Broadening the spectrum, there are 3 Africans among the top 5 scorers and 4 already in double figures, while Osimhen himself is on the verge of becoming the best striker ever on his continent in our league, ahead of people like Weah (46 goals) and Eto ‘o, as well as the first to become king of goals in Serie A. In our magazine we explain the reasons for this boom.
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Two other interviews not to be missed are those with Samuele Ceccarelli, 60 questions to the European gold medal in the 60m indoor event ahead of even the Olympic sprint champion Marcell Jacobs, and Alex Schwazer, Olympian in the 50km walk in Beijing before being disqualified for doping and the subsequent controversies and events which are now re-enacted by Netflix. Particularly interesting is the exclusive with the sprinter from Massa, future lawyer, who lets us discover one of the new and winning faces of blue athletics: “In January, at a meeting, I signed my first autograph. It almost seemed like a joke to me , I am nobody”. However, his humility does not mean that he has no ambitions and one of these is the 4×100, “last relay racer”, he specifies. Although in this case we are dealing with two legs and not two wheels, here too a great rivalry between our talents is foreshadowed. And we can only rejoice.
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