But how many people talked last night after Atalanta Fiorentina, how many interesting things came out and many of these give you hives. A useless victory has arrived, and thinking that winning against Gasperini always makes me happy, but at the Gewiss Stadium (the stadium of the winner of the Europa League which still has a corner closed for restoration but which has nevertheless always achieved excellent results) a match took place strange where the people from Bergamo certainly didn’t put in the effort I expected to reach third place. But we won by 2-3 enough to bring the ranking up to +4 compared to last year for what is our “seasonal trophy”.
It was the match where Belotti even scored a brace and the evanescent Gonzalez also scored and you immediately have a slew of blessings thinking about what they didn’t do in Athens. Strong, oh God let’s not exaggerate, decisive in meaningless races and ghosts when it counts. Gallo was then the first to give a memorable pearl because, interviewed at the end of the first half, he said to those who pointed out to him that they were playing a real match “what’s at stake is honor and respect for football and for people”. But do me a favor… said Totò, after what we saw on Wednesday our dear footballers don’t even know what respect is!
Then it was the turn, at the final whistle and after taking new bullshit from the curve, of the Viola captain Biraghi who, model Cuore book, tries to move us with the cry of “when we wear this shirt we must respect it and represent it with honour”. But is he serious? In my opinion, the declarations are sent to them automatically, they must all have files prepared for the occasion regardless of what happens. Here, I would like you to no longer honor the shirt, because I would like to see you with another team’s. Maybe I’m too bad but, given that we are at the end of a cycle, confirmed by the official departure of Italiano, I believe that it is essential to rebuild a new squad of value and do a good clean-up of many characters: for me they could all leave and not I would suffer for anyone…unfortunately.
However, the words that stunned me most of all were those of Pradè who finally apologized for the lost European final. You said that they didn’t speak before because they were upset by the defeat and, if this were a normal reaction, all of Florence and the purple world should have ended in absolute silence, everyone silent to heal their pain. I’m stunned, but do they realize what comes out of their mouths? But he encouraged us for the future by letting us know that the company “is very, very ambitious”. Now I can sleep soundly and wait for this concept to be confirmed by the President who, alas, has returned to the States without telling us anything. There should be a press conference on Tuesday and who knows what news, confirmations or surprises will be given to us.
Then there were the words about Italiano, a bit tear-jerking here too but I don’t want to be so dry as not to believe in the value of the human relationship between the DS and our now former coach. The work done by the coach was important, he reached finals that perhaps were not even conceivable for the value of our team but unfortunately, but also due to technical, tactical and motivational errors, no title arrived to put on the bulletin board.
Finally there is the Mister’s greeting, which I appreciated because it seemed honest to me when he says “when you reach a certain level and you can’t go any further, the environment asks for more effort. When you know you’ve given your best, I think it’s right to move on.” I believe that Vincenzo has many ambitions, he still needs to grow and consolidate, but I think he has given a lot to Fiorentina and I also think that he expected the “extra effort” from the club when there was a need to raise the bar and this is one of the reasons why he will go to coach elsewhere.
I wish him good luck but I believe that Viola needs it more than him and we don’t know what future he will face.
The Lady in Purple
