(Gmajo) – TheCeci’s red spaceship, this time dean included, was the means of transport chosen to reach the City of the Tricolor, in the dual meaning of Reggio Emilia And Mapei Stadium. The crew members were yours Umarell, designated on the occasion which one pilot by the owner Gian Carlo Ceciand Andrea Belletti who, in real time, told you, with his direct text, the progress of the expected Derby.
Since the unexpected is always lurking, with my authority as director I try to impose an intelligent departure, like at 5pm, somewhat contested by my traveling companions, who in the end manage to achieve a more than academic delay of about half an hour, which I knew in my heart, despite the prudence of the case, could not cause serious damage, considering the relative proximity of our destination. Me, I hadn’t considered that, instead, because of a series of astral conjunctureswe would have finally managed to enter the stadium where the people of Reggio are regular guests after 8pm, complete with the Ginseng ritual forcibly blown up by Ceci, who, optimistically, at the entrance to the Reggio ring road (before 7pm) had launched the proposal, jarring my sensitive nerves.
I must say that I like driving: always on board and at the wheel of theRed spaceship (a Fiat Punto much older) I had arrived, with Gianni Barone, as far as Terni, in time to enjoy a delicious pre-match lunch with him Set Yourself Free: yesterday evening, however, unfortunately, contrary to my habits, I was forced to leave empty-handed, since 8.30pm is an infamous time for those who love to sit at the table: earlier would mean eat with the chickens (but in any case with the delay accumulated yesterday, even if we had wanted to, we wouldn’t have made it), while afterwards it means exceeding, between one press conference and the next, 11.30 pm, moreover with the duty to upload to the site as soon as possible the material collected before, during and after the match, as well as layout the compositions of the various authors of Kaleidoscope.
In short, despite myself, I stumbled upon an evening Skip Bobyalso because, by specific choice, unlike my two traveling companions, I preferred not to take advantage of the “gastronomic package” kindly made available to the hosts, with the exception of the bubble-free mineral water, in elegant packaging (which I had already seen in these parts with the black-green shades of Sassuolo) confused by some, seeing it in the photo above from home, for a Tavernello.
Ceci, however, in an involuntary re-enactment of a vintage Angelo Massimino (“This ham is good. Too bad it tastes like fish”), he managed to mistake the salmon on the trendy sandwich for ham. And, despite not being a lover of fish, the dean managed to ingest not only his portion, but also mine, and perhaps even that of poor Belletti, only to then, dissatisfied and not fed, make it appear, no one knows exactly how and from where of the most homemade sandwiches, but satisfying to the consumer’s palate.
Compared to the last derby, the victorious one of the 2016-17 season in Serie C, the Crociato bus arrived unscathed at the Mapei, without ambushes or throwing stones at the crystals: the crime newsThis time, it has arrived queued like poison of the well-known saying. The two opposing factions, in fact, were about to collide after the opening of a door and the dangerous approach.
It was necessary toentry into the field of the police force – in an 80s revival – with some policemen running, from the press gallery it seemed a bit awkward to me (it’s a shame that I wasn’t able to film them, as at the same time I was inserting other videos and the smartphone is not adequately multitasking) from the South to the North, where the home Vandelli Group and the Crusader supporters bordered.
It was a matter of a quarter of an hour of passion, which fortunately ended with nothing accomplished, but which nevertheless lends itself to being stigmatized by those who, like the writer, are against every form of violence and careful examination by the Police who will surely find a way to identify, by vivisecting the images, actions liable to Daspo or worse for the authors, who, with their conduct, jeopardize their own safety (patience…) and above all that of others.
My principle, in this regard, is: if you really want to beat yourself up about it, why not? achieve an erection and enjoy (as a yellow-blue ultra claimed at the time, who later reformed in maturity), find yourself somewhere, you interested in one faction or the other, but avoid actions of this type that you can know how they start, but not how they go to finish. In the Parma sector there were over 2,000 present, even more in the Vandelli Stand: if the irreparable had happened, many who were only there to support their team, without having any other worries, would have been involved in the riots.
In the guest sector there were about half of those who could have stayed, if there had not been absurd limitations, already personally stigmatized in recent days, hoping that common sense would prevail for a total opening of the same. As a partial rectification of what I had argued in that editorial, however, with the benefit of hindsight, i.e. the senseless actions of those who last night sought conflict at all costs, I could even go so far as to assert Thank goodness they didn’t listen to me! But, obviously, this would be hyperbole, since I do not abandon the principle supported therein that it is better to have 4,000 people checked inside (inside the Italian stadium considered to be the safest) rather than leaving half of them outside. pissed off to put on fire and sword a city…
But yesterday, evidently, something must have gone wrong – but here I don’t think the blame lies with the police, as it is a private facility – in the management of security, if someone managed to act on the door, creating the situation of crisis de quo. Also, we want to talk about how well the prefilteringif inside the Mapei, in the Away Sector, occupied by Parma fans, large numbers of firecrackers and smoke bombs were set off, thus emulating the performance of the first leg of the Reggio players who had interrupted the match several times with throws.
In this regard, it should be noted that, in the chats of the Crociati fans, very critical comments were received in this regard: their thought was that, by doing so, they lowered themselves to the level of their opponents. And really, how can you blame them? Even in Bari the local fans enjoyed making explosions of every every two seconds, perhaps with the hidden aim of getting money out of fines for the little-loved De Laurentiis: but did the Parma fans necessarily have to ape the Reggio fans in giving so much work to the Fire Brigade?
The curious photo below portrays a Crusader fan on a ladder who lowered himself into the ditch that separates the guest sector from the pitch, to try to recover his mobile phone which had fallen down. After trying with a net, which later broke, he decided to go straight down…
A lot of work, hard, exhausting and with tension, mostly SLO Giuseppe Squarcia, who, with infinite patience, had his due until the beginning of the second half fan the not simple mediation, between those who had arrived in Reggio Emilia without a ticket and wanted to enter at all costs, the police forces who did not want to derogate from the diktat of the 2,000 granted in the first instance and the granata ticket service, which two pennies plus they certainly didn’t bother us. Beyond about thirty people who actually arrived without any title, but were nevertheless finally admitted after paying in cash (they were not equipped with the POS), there were also about sixty particular cases discussed and resolved, such as ticket holders from another sector who would have liked to enter the Guests sector, ticket holders from other sectors with changed residences, people in possession of tickets whose real holders were others (oh well, come on, it’s the season of “all inside”…).
Someone, in our comments space (but also in the chats or in other virtual spaces) even brought up the ghost of Lorenzo Minotti and that famous derby which would end up interrupting the tradition of individual support for Parma players, from that moment that only became collective (even if with various exceptions that confirmed the rule): honestly, I don’t think that last night we found ourselves faced with the same situation as then. And in any case I don’t think that the Derby last night was in any way dishonoredeven if to superficial eyes the excessive use of “all inside” of Pecchia made it seem so. But the coach himself, in the press conference, recalled how, for example in Bolzano, when the team was still in full swing and had not yet crossed the finish line, it had been the subject of a profound turnover. Diabolical persevering Mister…
Divisive derbytherefore, among those who were too disappointed – that if Pecchia had not won the Championship, perhaps they would have even gone so far as to ask for itimpeachment… – and those to whom nothing gets in the way, the important thing was the A: as I often like to remember, there is no present without a past, so a fair, Christian Democratic middle ground is advisable in this case too. So, let’s not tear our clothes for the Pecchia methodwhich has not desecrated the Derby, while everyone who is interested in a blessed clubof thearlia with Reggiana, I remember that the story did not begin 30 years ago with triumphs, but before, with the hardships of the past, when precisely the Director was in front of us and us, despite being bagoloniwe were floundering behind…
In the stands not only fans, but also professionals. And what professionals! At halftime, to our right below, we glimpsed the procure Federico Pastorello, together with one of his main collaborators entourageLuca Bascherini – who thirty years ago, when he took his first steps in football, collaborating with a TV, of which his father was manager, I had renamed the formidable envoy – Alessandro Circati has recently arrived in whose stables. Those who know about the transfer market, observing them, guaranteed that there could soon be transfer bombs. If anything we will hear the grenadier Ampollini…
On the left, however, the defender Crociati Botond Balogh together with Peter Bokor, who is editing a series of documentaries for the Hungarian football federation: the two followed the match together. Probably the defender Crociato (who recently renewed his contract with Parma Calcio until June 30, 2027) will be the protagonist of one of the stories that Bokor is tracking with Hungarian footballers abroad in view of the upcoming one European Championship.
We close the Crusader Diary today, with an unprecedented video work, exclusively for StadioTardini.it, of the artist Demian Yamik, active on Facebook, who creates his productions by mixing human-artificial intelligence. The images of him, which accompanied the articles published in our online newspaper in place of the usual photos, on the occasion of the pre and post derby, convey epicness, without violence, but with glorious momentum. As we already had the opportunity to explain at the beginning of the collaboration with him, the precise editorial choice of StadioTardini.itin contrast to the official communication which instead canceled it, is that of enhance the historical definition of the Parma team, the Crusaders, wrongly considered divisive, instead of the overused yellow-blue one, which can be attributed to various even neighboring teams such as Modena And Verona, unlike the uniqueness of Crusaders. Gabriele Majo
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