The husband of the journalist, colleague and commentator, denied on social media any imaginative reconstruction of the kiss given by the Fiorentina coach to his wife, sitting on the sidelines. Fiorentina also intervened on the issue: “he only had his head under the hood and it was just a busy conversation”.
The alleged kiss or peck of Vincenzo Italiano to Vanessa Leonardi by Sky Sports. The image went live on Thursday evening, on the occasion of the 2-0 of the Florentine against the Viktoria Plzen qualifying for the semi-finals of Conference Leaguesparked morbid curiosity and a host of accompanying comments.
Was there or not? No. There was no exchange of effusions. What really happened was different from what was seen or what many thought they saw and only imagined. The misunderstanding was created by the same Sky commentator who covered the live goal: deceived himself by the video clip sequence, he used the term “kiss” to describe the situation captured by the cameras which fueled a fuss.
Both are married: Vincenzo Italiano is married to Raffaella, with whom he had two children in 2002 and 2007, while the Sky journalist is married to her colleague, journalist and sports commentator, Maurizio Compagnoni.
Italian runs to Sky journalist after Fiorentina goal: “He gave her a kiss”
It was the latter who intervened directly by denying on social media the question published on the bulletin board relating to that confidential attitude: why did Italiano kiss Vanessa last night? “But he didn’t kiss her.”wrote Compagnoni who later added: “But do you think Italiano does it in front of a thousand cameras and with his wife in the stands? Someone, poor thing, just doesn’t get there”.
It all happened when Italiano approached the Sky correspondent who was on the sidelines and seemed to abandon himself to a spontaneous demonstration of affection caused by the happiness of the moment: he leaned towards her and whispered something in her ear . He did it twice and, thanks to the speed with which the lens cut on the two, the technician’s face covered by the flap of the hood worn by the journalist, left many mistakenly believing that he had given her a kiss or peck.
That frame was enough for Viola’s feat, in the Conference semi-finals for the second consecutive year (in the previous edition they reached the final against West Ham), to take a backseat. Nothing could be further from the truth, Fiorentina also confirmed it in a note released by the LaPresse agency: “No kiss, the journalist only had her head under the hood and it was just a busy conversation.”
Once the matter has been clarified, the kiss to the sideline is something that actually happened in the past: Alberto Malesani gave it to Vanessa Leonardi then (2009) when managing Siena. On another occasion (also in 2009) Cesare Prandelli did the same with Alessia Tarquinio (at that time a Sky journalist) on the occasion of Gilardino’s goal against Liverpool in the Champions League.
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