(Luca Savarese) – The adanismthat is, the verb futebolistic spread by Lele Adani, it is creating countless followers. The word of the former footballer, a native of Correggio, is followed everywhere, social media is his gospels. Not to mention those apocryphawho beg for truthfulness and disseminate miracles, up YouTube.
Daniele Adani’s concepts are always very interesting and conveyed with the right mix of passion and knowledge. But to the people adanistat times almost more widespread than that of sorcini by Renato Zero, to whom it is enough to quote “The rain” Claudio Lopez to feel like experts in futebolwe must occasionally remember that before Adani isArgentine football, yes era.
He didn’t invent it, nor did the equally skilled Stefano Borghi, who, on the SportItalia channels, began, a few years ago, to narrate teams, characters, events and curiosities of the football world Argentinian.
Argentine football and in Argentina has a long history which can be summed up in quick terms viral videos is often reductive. We need to go back, to Buenos Aires, full of immigrants, from the years 1880 to 1882. Among these, there is also Alexander Watson Hutton, he is 30 years old, he comes from Edinburgh. He lands in the capital to work as a school principal Andrew’s Scots School. He arrives with the suitcase, and at the time of customs checks, here are two rather strange tools, which the local surveillance agent, with amazement, will define “round leather balls and inflator”. Little did he know, Hutton, that this beginning of his contained a seed, capable of generating, many years later, i holy journeys of Maradona and Messi, but also the prolific campaigns of Mario Kempes, Diego Milito and many others.
His vision, his indomitable desire to give to the Argentine pueblo the delicacies of a game recently born in his Scotland did the rest. In 1893 it gave rise to the very first Argentina Association Football League. He, from Alexander, quickly becomes Alejandro, football, foot ball, it takes an amen to become futebol.
A few years pass and this futebol, becomes the profession of Cesar Luis Menotti, born in 1938, with origins from Ancona. Play, it is delantero, striker, with Rosario Central, Racing Club, Boca Juniors, then goes to the States, with the New York Generals and to Brazil, with Santos. His very first gluttonoushowever, he achieved it as a coach, leading Huracan, another club from Buenos Aires, to win the 1973 title, after 46 years of starvation, for the team.
In 1974 he became technical commissioner of Argentina, to which, at the end of the nineteenth century, Hutton had given the foundations to be a nation of football, feints and double steps, the bottle, The thin, Menotti, to those bases, adds the height of a new proposal, divided by two. One: “The football is a game of ideas, not of muscles”. Two: “THE journalists don’t understand anything about football. If they lock them in a room, they won’t even be able to write a letter to their mother.”.
His chemistry, made not of the creativity of power, but of the power of creativity, leads him to carry out very courageous experiments. D’Annunzio conceived and proposed life as a work of art. Here is the instead Menotti football as a work of art. To his chemical studies, he adds a taste for challenges. To prepare the players for Mundial 78, he locks them in a laboratory, without women, to eat vitamins and play. The sensible, very hard experiences and the necessary demonstrations, the victory of a world championship, the first, on home soil, in 1978. And the area of his triangle is complete. Maradona will say that Kempes took Argentina and put them on the map of world football.
The Flacoand even a little sitewas the very first Google maps of Argentina, guiding it, with solid directions, poetic signage, intelligent and disarming roads, to the world cup destination. His captain was Osvaldo Ardiles, who played in midfield, despite being an outfield player, with the number 1 on his shoulders. You call, if you want, wise madness. Bold choices, almost cinematic, yet successful.
The Flaco, he also knew the boot. Summer 97, Enrico Mantovani who with Vujadin Boskov, The lip from Novi Sad, won a championship in 1991, wants to try to bring Menotti’s words and concepts to his Sampdoria. But as often happens, great expectations in football can shrink and deflate quickly, like balloons that have lost air and implode, streamers on concrete, without a carnival. The Flaco he was sacked after 11 rounds. Vujadin returns to Doria, but neither does he succeed in his ancient and noble undertakings.
But the greats, in a short time, the figure of a few, even if the wind they desired is not blowing, still manage to say things that are not trivial. “Fiorentina must have a style of play worthy of their Michelangelos and Leonardo”. He ruled Flaco. One who didn’t need match analysts or friendly journalists. Nor of adanists. Have a good trip Flaco and may the earth be light for you. Luca Savarese
