IN FLORENCE FOOTBALL CRIES AND CREDIBILITY GOES AWAY. A TELE SALES TAKES VLAHOVIC TO JUVE. THE MOST IMPORTANT DOUBLE MATCH OF THE MATCH
In Florence, children cry in despair. They cry because Florence, in football terms, is not a city for young people. Another idol of theirs has gone to Juventus, as usual. And you do not explain it to children easily, because children love football of those who know how to play football and have that simple genuineness of those whose only goal is to play to win.
In Florence they will soon lose this authenticity and what is worse, those who, like me, have some memories, will be able to pass on to their children only epics of capital gains and tales of amazing liquidity indices; evergreen sports centers and, hopefully, state-of-the-art refurbished stadiums.
Football for Florence is the moment of great disenchantment, is the day when this company lost its credibility, business before football, ok, the balance before the table, ok.
Sending Vlahovic to Juventus mid-season is a high tradition. And it is even more so after what Commisso has always said about Juventus, about Agnelli, about Italian football. Easy, dear President, to say that you want to change football and then fill in the boxes at the earliest opportunity. Easy, dear President, to talk about principles and those same principles to betray them at the first opportunity. Battles are not always fought with a full stomach, to do them, sometimes you have to give up something. I don’t remember in the history of Italian football a club in the running for Europe to sell their best player, top scorer in Serie A, to their historical rival, and this year also a direct rival. Only Preziosi with Piatek had this courage. Here today you have become the new Preziosi, other than Agnelli, Suning, Friedkin, De Laurentiis or Percassi. But he did more, he sent one of his managers on TV to beg Juventus to buy Vlahovic. A teleshopping, an embarrassing scene. Will Cabral arrive? Good player but at the moment it doesn’t matter. And do you know why? Because he led us to believe that if this Brazilian becomes strong, she will do all she can to sell him, probably to Juventus, of which he had actually told us he was a fan.
It is not true, Mr. President, that he could not do anything else. He could have better managers who would have managed the negotiation better, he could sell him last summer and could replace him worthily, he could wait for the estate relying on Europe, he could bring him to maturity by setting up in this year and a half a Champions team that the he would have replied to the sacrifice. He could have bet on himself and on the sports project, but he chose to win easy, thinking only of monetizing. She could have taken an example from those Presidents whom she vilifies but who had the strength and courage to put football before their wallet. AC Milan did it with Donnarumma and Kessie, Napoli with Insigne, Turin with Belotti. Nobody will fail and three out of four and probably in the Champions League, one is champion of Italy.
He chose to do worse than the Pontellos did with Baggio. At least they touched the Scudetto first and left a moment after the destruction. Diego Della Valle, which I have critical enough to consider his arrival as the day of liberation, in the summer of 2006 and personally in San Piero a Sieve to keep Toni promised to Inter and sold him the following year to Bayern losing money. Years later, with the preliminary round of the Champions League at the gates and the sale of Mutu to Rome, Della Valle was convinced by Prandelli and kept the Romanian and Fiorentina thanks to him went to the Champions League. Vittorio Cecchi Gori, before destroying Fiorentina and self-destructing, he carried Kanchelskis and Edmundo in January. Today, dear President, for your credibility it is a catastrophe.
But come to think of it, he had already clarified the guidelines, as when he specified that the purchase of Gonzalez was due to the possibility of making a capital gain more easily than Sergio Oliveira. Or like when his manager Burdisso wasted no time underlining how Fiorentina could slowly hold back Gonzaz himself and Quarta from becoming strong. Who knows what water in the mouth for Ikonè which has cost relative and little will be able to be yielded to important figures.
Of course there is Florence in all of this. Indeed, Florence is the preponderant part of the problem. For a part of this city that has long been prone to the current President and some executive of the moment, the fault lies solely with the Balkan mercenary. Sure, right and who knows why. So get ready to insult your neighbor who won’t believe this way of doing football, Vincenzo Italiano. But we will be able to talk about this again in the spring.
var banner = {"468x60_3":[{"idbanner":"84","width":468,"height":60,"crop":"1","async":"0","uri":"http://www.montipallidi.com","embed":"","img1":"74efc5a4d6bb6395d4041fcb91a57f76.gif","partenza":1433916000,"scadenza":1439186400,"pagine":""}],"160x160":[{"idbanner":"311","width":160,"height":160,"crop":"1","async":"0","uri":"http://www.thebuccnotes.it/?utm_campaign=banner_firenzeviola&utm_source=portali&utm_medium=portali&utm_term=banner_firenzeviola&utm_content=box","embed":"","img1":"98d063b4175c6da34ae5409efb41e02b.jpg","partenza":-62169986996,"scadenza":-62169986996,"pagine":""}],"160x160_top":[{"idbanner":"312","width":160,"height":160,"crop":"1","async":"0","uri":"https://youtu.be/4Ook-rgnERc","embed":"","img1":"4d6a9a9edae6a754419fa7479ca992db.gif","partenza":1439913600,"scadenza":1439919000,"pagine":""}]}; var now = Math.round(new Date().getTime() / 1000); var bannerok = new Object(); for (var zona in banner) { bannerok[zona] = new Array(); for (i=0; i < banner[zona].length; i++) { var ok = 1; if (banner[zona][i]['scadenza']>0 && banner[zona][i]['scadenza']<=now) ok = 0; if (banner[zona][i]['partenza']!=0 && banner[zona][i]['partenza']>now) ok = 0; if (typeof azione !== 'undefined' && azione !== null) { if (banner[zona][i]['pagine'] == '!index' && azione == 'index') ok = 0; else if (banner[zona][i]['pagine'] == 'index' && azione != 'index') ok = 0; }
if (ok == 1) bannerok[zona].push(banner[zona][i]); }
bannerok[zona].sort(function() {return 0.5 - Math.random()});
}
banner = bannerok;
var banner_url="https://net-storage.tcccdn.com";
var banner_path="/storage/firenzeviola.it/banner/"
function asyncLoad()
{
if (azione == 'read' && TCCCookieConsent) {
var scripts = [
"https://connect.facebook.net/it_IT/all.js#xfbml=1",
];
(function(array) {
for (var i = 0, len = array.length; i < len; i++) {
var elem = document.createElement('script');
elem.type="text/javascript";
elem.async = true;
elem.src = array[i];
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(elem, s);
}
})(scripts);
}
setTCCCookieConsent();
}
if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load", asyncLoad, false);
else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", asyncLoad);
else window.onload = asyncLoad;
function resizeStickyContainers() {
var stickyFill = document.getElementsByClassName('sticky-fill');
for (i = 0; i < stickyFill.length; ++i) stickyFill[i].style.height = null;
for (i = 0; i < stickyFill.length; ++i)
{
var height = stickyFill[i].parentElement.offsetHeight-stickyFill[i].offsetTop;
height = Math.max(height, stickyFill[i].offsetHeight);
stickyFill[i].style.height = height+'px';
}
}
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', resizeStickyContainers, false);
// layout_headjs
function utf8_decode(e){for(var n="",r=0;r