All of Italy’s football team stands up for Atalanta, winner of the Europa League. On an unforgettable evening, the Bergamo team beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the Dublin final, interrupting a 51-match unbeaten streak for the Germans. Perfect performance from Gasperini’s men, who found the man of their dreams in an overflowing Lookman. For the Nigerian a hat-trick which allows the trophy to return to the Peninsula after 25 years.
There are also many former Spezia players in the Nerazzurri team. Starting from Umberto Marino, general manager of the orobic team who had the same role in Via Melara from 16 December 2013 to 17 June 2015. Fundamental manager in the history of the eagle. It was he who set up a Picco without barriers as we see it today (the current minister Abodi was president of Lega B), who aimed at expanding the stadium by first involving the architect Gino Zavanella, who created the Follo sports center where the first team is still training, to raise a generation of managers and officials who still work in the club. It was he who brought Guido Angelozzi to La Spezia for the first time, suggesting him to Volpi as sporting director.
Marino moved to Bergamo in 2015 Marco Semprini, another professional who passed from Spezia first as sports secretary and then as general secretary, a role he also has at Atalanta. Without to forget Luca Percassimanaging director and son of the owner Antonio Percassi, already an eagle player between 2002 and 2004. Among the footballers there is Emil Holmwho did not take the field in the final in Dublin and who in fact is still a Spezia player on loan to the Bergamo team who in less than a month will have to choose whether to buy him out or not.
