Wisla Krakow. European Champion Ciro Immobile and European runner-up Salvatore Sirigu were able to get to the “White Star” 10 years ago
Two Italians, Ciro European champion. Immobilization and European runner-up, Salvation of Sirigu, could have ended up in Wisła Kraków ten years ago. So football transfer expert Gianluca Di Marzio, whose first ESPN TV station has ranked among the 50 most influential people in the world of football.
Di Marzio in the introduction to the Polish book “Grand Hotel Calciomerca, which was published in 2021 by the Sine Qua Non publishing house, about meetings at two Italian clubs with, among others, agent Gianluka Di Carlo (in 2007 he led to the home page of Radosław Matusiak from GKS Bełchatów to Palermo), during which they offered to loan Vistula Immobile and Sirig.
– To a story from about ten years ago – does not specify the exact date of Di Marzio’s meeting. He gives the same name of the activists who offered the Krakow club the Juventus Turin forward – Immobile, and the friendly US Palermo – Sirigu. They were the sports director of “Ju” (today Tottenham Hotspur) Bio Paratic and sports inspection US Palermo (today the Montreal Impact sports facade) Walter Sabini.
“We can lend you an Immobile. The boy shoots as if on cue in our youth school” – Di Marzio quotes Paratici. “In turn, I could provide you on the same terms with a non-golden tolua, Sirigu, played for Ancona in Serie B,” Di Marzio quotes Sabatini.
– They both poured into their hands, and they could have found their CV in Krakow as well. Meanwhile, the proposals were rejected: “Nowadays we should do with the boy with the youth and with the second-tier Goods?” – the same, quoted by the author of the book’s answer, establishing recognition for Italian clubs.
“The boy from the youth” later played, inter alia, in Borussia Dortmund, Seville and (to this day) in Lazio Rome, he was a three-time top scorer in the Italian League and once in the Europa League (2018), he won the European Golden Boot (2020), played 52 times (15 goals), scored with her 2012 and the Euro 2016 tournament. Its market value, the highest in Europe, is EUR 50 million – current (December 28, 2021 – current).
In turn the “kolerugoligowy escort” thend, among others, In Paris Saint-Germain, Osasuna, Torino and (to this day) FC Genoa, 28 matches played in the national team, he won (as a reserve player) the European runner-up (2012). The highest market value – also according to Transfermarkt – its value is 21.5 million euros (on August 1, the current value is 1.5 million euros (28 December 2021).
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