LR24 (AUGUSTO CIARDI) – Over the years, we have been accustomed to listening to sensible, reasonable speeches. But they took us away from emotions. Let me be clear, I am not speaking ignorantly, and I apologize for this brief personalization. I learned what financial fair play was when he told me about it in 2009 Ernesto Paolillo, historic Inter manager, one of the main authors of the great innovation that would revolutionize our football era, with the aim of guaranteeing a balance of competitiveness which, unfortunately, was never achieved. And not Paolillo’s fault. It is clear that we must keep an eye on the budget, the accounts, the salaries. Equally clear that, due to the clubs’ repeated incompetence, today the placement in the area Champions League it’s worth more than a European final. For football accountants. All clear.
Therefore, former professors can easily avoid taking the chair appeased in recent years, those who discovered financial fair play after having been indoctrinated, in the last decade, by the diligent managers of Italian clubs who, in addition to meticulously illustrating a new subject, had the aim of throwing cold water on the greedy ambitions of the fans, that they should have learned to mouth to the footballer trading (read self-financing) and slowly give up the hope of victory, because they should have had second, third and fourth places as their sole ambition. We know everything. We too reside in the cave of the stone age of football. We who have tattooed the phrase “the end justifies the tactical means”.
What is the end? Victory in trophy loop style real Madrid? Never. We are not that foolish and naive. The end is the emotions, which explode in matches from inside or outside. Those in which the only calculations are linked to the best strategy to overcome the opponent. And the coaches do it. Because then footballers and fans, who live for similar matches, will never have a calculator in hand to understand how much money they will receive in the event of progressing to the next round. And they won’t think about the type of business that will be created thanks to the visibility that a European cup semi-final offers.
No modern footballno established manager and even less no television, radio and social lounge professor will be able to harm or undermine the emotions that certain events produce.
There Rome in Europe he learned to make fire. For years. While the fans of the other teams have been thinking about the summer transfer market since March, trying to understand who will do it, who will be the coach and how much capital gains the redundancies will yield, while the major national press organs will stun them by throwing out meaningless names for the signing campaign, the Roma fans, and the Roma players, and the Roma coach and all of Roma have elected for years May as the month of emotions. Those that will remain alive thanks to the stories that over time will even be doped by fictional stories. Its part of the game. It’s the essence of football. To be thrown every now and then in the face of those who, in a delirium of omnipotence, even consider themselves entitled to weigh and judge the way others support.
Come what may, Roma has found the gold street. Gold is emotions. Which are worth even more than UEFA awards. Regardless of who will ultimately be able to show off the laurel wreath.
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