by Andrew Bosco
Maybe in the future we will love them. For now to put it as they use beyond the Tiber “non possumus”. Maybe we will love Di Maria, Paredes and Vlahovic: in the future. For the moment we note that injured, undecided, pissed off in the championship, as soon as they set foot in the vicinity of their national teams they lit up like the flame of a Dupont: in the sense of a lighter. It wasn’t a good page that the trio gave us. Certainly for a player, participating in a Mundial is essential. But it’s not the respective national teams that pay them. It’s their club. Who now hopes to be able to have them back in January, in shape. And above all motivated. Without the lead cloak of possible injuries to condition them. Certain “airs” must be particularly healthy. And thaumaturgical.
I could close here. There is no Juve to tell in the next fifty days. Three friendlies, and the girls busy in their Champion’s. The world championship in Qatar has begun, amid controversy and suspicion. Between Hollywood sets, dancers, camels, lights designed by the great Marco Lodola. With the ” particulare ” of Gianni Infantino in the foreground. With the belated reaction of the world’s media which suddenly for a couple of weeks have discovered where the World Cup will be played and what rights are systematically violated in that country. Ecuador won, contradicting the Daily Saily Mail which had feared combines. Of the two, one: or they reconsidered. Or even though the Qataris have been in “retreat” since last March, the team is not up to this event. From what we have seen on TV, the pressure on his debut in front of the world could have played a bad joke on the hosts. We will see later. Or maybe they forgot to “warn” Valencia. Sometimes, when you place the mandrakata, it can happen. Jokes, of course. In order not to cry over the 6,500 immigrant workers who died (in conditions of slavery, with their passports withdrawn) during the construction of the plants. But Infantino says every day that Qatar will be the Switzerland of the future. After all, he (Swiss citizen) as well as in Switzerland, also took up residence in Doha. Pharaonic world, desert scrooge style. Which is no more. Now there is a city, which looks like Las Vegas. Even in those parts before the mafia invested, making it the capital of gambling, as well as kitsch, there was only the desert It’s the new advancing, beauties.
In Italy (while Mancini’s national team played the useless friendly against Austria) there are 500 million to be paid to the tax authorities by the clubs by 16 December. Everyone has asked for an extension, except Fiorentina. Minister Giorgetti granted it until the 22nd. Because the tax authorities have their needs and the government needs the finance company to collect money where it can. Even in the world of football. So in the halls of power we go back to talking about the Super League. Mr. Ceferin will develop hives, but the problem is serious. The debts increase, the Super League is not the panacea, but it could be a start. Football must emerge from the hypocrisy of the binomial, show-sport. The two now find it difficult to keep each other together. Sport is for everyone, even for the poor. The show (which has ever higher costs) has become for the few. And for ever less, it will be. I’m not into cynics: just realist.
Meanwhile, as I had foreseen, the Hague and related opaque stories are no longer mentioned. The story of the narcos has disappeared from the headlines. Gravina reigns. If it doesn’t “rule”, it certainly counts. Even in the newsrooms.
I close here. I don’t feel like telling you the tale of the bear about Juventus’ movements in January. There’s no money. Juve will remain as they are. Then if I’m proved wrong, I already have an ash bin near my desk: for my foreman. Ah: no Juve shareholders’ meeting on 23rd. Meeting postponed to 27th December. Officially to “comply with the Consob resolution, in order to ensure maximum transparency after having published pro forma economic and financial situations”. Which, put like this, means everything and nothing. But perhaps something is maturing on the upper floors of the Royal House. Perhaps .
