Gian Piero Gasperini’s confession caused a double reaction, football and institutional, from Valencia and the Ministry of Health. While the Mestalla club expressed its “surprise” for not taking preventive measures, putting at risk, “many people during their trip and stay in Valencia,” Councilor Ana Barceló emphatically stressed that “the manager was lacking responsibility” turinese. On the other hand, it is strange that in the coexistence of a concentration, and in the context of an established health alarm, the symptoms manifested by Gasperini once they arrived in Valencia were not detected or considered by his own club.
In this situation, Gasperini’s attitude has been challenging. The Atalanta tried to qualify the statements of its coach, with a private statement to the Gazzetta dello Sport and the Eco di Bergamo highlighting that Gasperini suffered “neither fever nor respiratory problems” on the two days, March 9 and 10, which was in Valencia. In this same week, last Thursday, Gasperini gave an interview to Sky Sports in which he reaffirmed his version and assured that the controversy generated by his first statements was “offensive and ugly.” An opinion that, in private, he has continued to express to his close circle, visibly angry with the Mestalla club. Specifically, Gasperini has been upset by Valencia’s suggestion that UEFA be able to investigate his case. A remote possibility but parallel to the possibility that the Italian Federation would impose penalties on the clubs in the event that they had concealed positives.
Coach with a long and varied career in Italy, Gasperini, 62, has always behaved like a loose verse in Calcio. Both for his football ideology, with a taste for the attack that is countercultural in the country of “catenaccio”, and for his public positioning. His controversies with rivals have been notorious and has garnered criticism from many hobbies, especially in southern Italy. In his time at Genoa, he even revealed himself to the threats of ultra fans and revealed his names and nicknames at a press conference. We are, therefore, before a coach without reservation when it comes to expressing himself and breaking, as has been seen in the controversy with Valencia, the communication policy of his own club, which opted for caution regarding the coronavirus.
Never indifferent in Italy, his figure in Bergamo is adored, undisputed. Her presence in the club has transformed the Atalanta in a sporting way, which has become the great source of pride for a city that has suffered its worst human tragedy.
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