The beautiful and large victory against Sassuolo (a disarmed team should be remembered), as well as having re-projected the Viola’s European ambitions along the path to the championship, showed the strengths and weaknesses of the team today in the hands of Italiano and tomorrow who knows who. In fact, the wingers have found prolificacy and performance again, read Sottil finally on the blessed path to a long-awaited affirmation and Nico has exploded again after a shady period. However, some potentialities that will need to be developed in the future, strange potentialities indeed, have come to the attention of the demanding and informed Florentine football audience. Which portend strange solutions.
In fact, Martinez Quarta’s indomitable creative streak is intriguing, but also fascinating. who looks more and more like a striker and less and less like a defender. Also curious is the ability to push, the fresh leg and the ballistic attitude (for now stopped by the wood and not as hoped by the net) by Parisi who could allow us to imagine an unexpressed potential to be unearthed, as a sculpture from rough marble, by the young (for now only short) winger from Irpinia from Solofra.
These are all suggestions that would help us draw the identikit of Fiorentina’s technical future, provided that of course he doesn’t end up remaining Italian, as the latest news on the coaching transfer market would have it.
For the future Fiorentina, given all this work of real training, or reformation, of footballers, a football master is imagined as suitable, one who is courageous and confident in risking even an unexpected and radical change of role or position on the pitch. In short, more of a Sarri than a debutant like Aquilani. Unless Commisso intends to reform Fiorentina himself, with a massive injection of capital, for example to purchase a real and reliable first striker, the only real sore point of the party celebrated at the Franchi with Sassuolo.
In fact, the plate up front has been crying since 2022, when the Viola club chose not to replace Vlahovic, even though the sale of the Serbian had raised a huge sum. The consequences of that choice which for some was even a masterpiece, very unsporting, Fiorentina still pays today, think of poor Kouamè who is anything but first striker or of poor rooster Belotti who, silent, dazed and plucked, he wanders lost around the henhouse without purpose or beauty of movement, of Nzola who now disappears on the eve of the matches, like a vampire at sunrise, we will remain silent for the sake of his country, but at least he will be available for Bruges.
The curious thing is that Fiorentina doesn’t even have a young boy with great promise, coming from the Primavera, to try to join the first team, risking him precisely in moments of absence of the starting alternatives. We fill our mouths so much with the Violapark…the Violapark….the Violapark… for youth politics and we forget that if the Violapark is not filled with sporting content, it remains just a flow of concrete, counterpointed of saplings in Bagno a Ripoli.
But these are just some small ideas to reflect on while waiting for tonight’s big match at the Franchi, the match which, at this point, could be worth a season, or rather an entire cycle, that of Italiano in Fiorentina. And if you want more, that of Commisso in Florence, who apparently will be in the stands enjoying his team on the day of the redde rationem, the showdown, the final judgement, at least of these last years of football on the banks of the Arno .
And so we are at the match against Bruges, for which Italiano reassures the purple environment with a laconic, but crystalline and ringing: ‘We’re fine’. Even Nico, sitting next to him in front of the press, reassures everyone that pressure excites him, he likes it, and in today’s match everything will be missing except pressure, so it is reasonable to expect a great performance from Fiorentina’s Argentine striker. And now the lights come on and the show begins.
