Let's talk about today's champion Shakhtar.
At night in Italy, in the valley of the Po River, lies the little town of Bergamo. People lived here in the era before the Roman Empire - and, regardless of the ruin of Attila in the 5th century of our era, Bergamo still enjoys the life of a rich, ancient and even aesthetic province. Here, as in Bologna, there is its legendary university; here is the Great Festival of Organ Music; There are still images of ancient Italian architecture, which, during the era of megacities, were not forgotten with gloomy eyes and were not covered with billboards; There’s a lot of stuff here that motivates you to enjoy life’s hardships, and spending a couple of days like a tourist motivates you even more.
Bergamo is not the center of the world - but one of those places that is comfortable with the status of the periphery. The rural statehood is a sphere in which the Ukrainian towns are seriously discredited to any action - Bergamo could develop everything for a long time. I am writing this text, so many of you, reading it melodiously, drinking tea with bergamot - so this word means “Bergamot pear”. The Bergamasques have developed their culture to the status of a world brand that provides tea, aromatherapy, and jam.
This status – a quiet, good province – has been demonstrated by Bergamo for decades in football.. Most often in Serie A, often in Serie B, Atalanta in the 20th century produced geniuses, but did not storm great heights. The school of the Bergamascans was a sign of cruelty: for one generation it was taught by Gaetano Scirea, for another by Roberto Donadoni, for the third by Alessio Tacchinardi. People on the site of Pazzini and Montolivo and for the continued success of the academy did not praise - Atalanti were looking for people who would play a key role in top clubs.
Prote. Atalanta has now reached the status of “queen of the province” - for a record number of seasons in the elite for a team that does not represent the center of the region. Queens, ale provinces. She had a question about the European Cup semi-final, but about the status of the team, which at that particular moment didn’t matter to the elite. In 1987, the Bergamasques reached the final of the Italian Cup, and subsequently qualified for the Volodar Cup Winners' Cup - and then at the same time flew to Serie B. It's been a long time in the European Cups, the victory over Sporting Lisbon came at the same time as attempts to turn around - and the club achieved fourth place. Exit, synchronously receiving the four and there, and there.
Well, Atalanta has played in Italian football for a century, plus or minus the same role that Bergamo itself plays in Italy.. Garne, my dear, there’s already a lot in this place - but all the same, the headaches are far from here. And so it was until a person appeared who changed everything.
Let Gian Piero Gasperini be extremely different from Brad Pitt (and in character, singly, even more so), whose contribution, like the contribution of a hero in a Hollywood blockbuster, can itself be considered historical. The football fans themselves, wanting to achieve something, began to move not from Bergamo, but to Bergamo.
Who are you, Signior Gasperini? Vichovanets of Juventus, who did not deny his chance to the first team. It is impossible to say that the “Bianconeri” had mercy: although Gian Piero and Grav for such famous clubs as Palermo, Salernitana, Pescara, the rest of them spent a couple of seasons in Serie A. Bread Gasperin-Gravets – lower leagues.
Gasperina has given a lot of rocks to Juve and as a coach – coach of the youth team. More than 45 years of age have been deprived of Juventus B in order to deal with mature gravels. He was a coach at Genoa for 13 years. and that's all. The reasons for an even turbulent career lie in your style.
Typical Italian eccentricity, the love of the barefoot to change trainers every three months is borderline discordant with Gasperina’s work style. Which coach needs: a) perfect ordering of all processes at the club; b) absolute authority among the graves; c) hour. Without a great background in the status of a gravel, it is very important to achieve this – and, for example, the boss of Palermo Mauricio Zamparini, leaving his couple for one season. Having hired after the third round (Giuseppe Sannino’s head flew, in a uniquely surprising way), letting it run until the middle of the season, settling, then turning around - and starting again.
Dzamparina, of course, was the only one, but in the Inter Gasperina took off after three rounds. Program for Trabzonspor u group (! ) The champions' licenses were not tested. Genoa had a much better time, but in 2016, Atalanta hired Gasperina as a middling, not without some shortcomings, specialist – and could have made it at the start, after several defeats in five rounds.
At the time of Gasperina's arrival, the Bergamasques had few participations in European cups in their entire history (and one, as you already know, was from a different league). For Janpjero, there are already twice as many fates, but no one cares about the success of the “fate” itself - which is rather disappointing for a team that won the European League last season and reached the quarterfinals in the Champions League.
Successes at the championship? It's amazing, it's also record-breaking. U 2019-21 rr. Atalanta took three-thirds of the city after. It’s ironic that even if they weren’t there, the best result was still for Gasperina – the Bergamasques had never taken quarters of the city before. He won the “wooden medal” last season – and in his debut, -2016/17.
And this despite the fact that under Gasperin, Atalanta earns pennies and does not spend them. Copmainers arriving from Alkmaar to Bergamo for 14 million euros, and leaving to Turin for 54. Romero, which is typical, arrived from Juventus for 17 - and went to Tottenham for 52. Goylund went up in price in one rik (especially for Manchester United, but not least for us) from 20 to 74 million; Kulushevski, Chergovy Klasny Vichovanec, costing Tottenham 39 million. Franck Kessier was taken from the Cote d'Ivoire Championship for a second million - and after one season he was sold to Milan for thirty.
As a result of such extra income, Atalanta hosts European Cup super teams, firstly in Bergamo, and in another way, in the new stadium. When the Gasperins first brought their team to the European Cup, it was possible, as Ingulets say, to travel to play “home” matches far away - to the Sassuolo stadium. “Athletes? The Azzurri"
The club under Gasperin ignited the leaders to a new level. “Brothers of underestimated graves and bring them to a new level” - this is, of course, the law of Billy Gasperina, in particular, Gian Piero Bina, and in general the club of this year and Zaniolo turned to Italy, and won the Bellan competition, and won. Atalanta is far from being a poor relative, and she must fly high after Gasperina’s exit (let’s not let all of Bergamo wish that the 66-Rich Fahive would hide here again).
How can we achieve this You can give the floor to the Gravians themselves - it’s more important for them to stink, which is even more ostentatious, not to use filthy phrases, but to speak exactly to the point.
“Gasperin is important that when we attack, lose the ball and pick it up, we have a greater chance of scoring than a positional attack. Wasting the ball for the mind, which we swedishly enters at the end, is not a problem” - Ruslan Malinovsky.
“In every match, it is important for us to concentrate on our own game and not adapt to our opponent. For any team, it is important to expose yourself. It’s a pity that we can’t boast about my love for Schalke. Our Atalanti patients will always know what to learn from our viconn in mercilessly attacking football. And neutral fans will include our matches, so the view is guaranteed” – Robin Gosens.
“I wave buti part of the structure. Everything depends on how the team plays and who I can be for it. I came to my senses after one of the first roses from Gasperin. Vіn rospovіv, how to enter my yakostі before team football. Having explained this, as no one has before. I didn’t know this before. Now I know” - Ademola Lookman.
And we conclude with the words of Gasperina himself. The maestro, right on topic for the Mecca of organ music, said:.
“Everything is like music. It is necessary to lose the note. Having started the collapse too early and too late - the song is sealed. The ravages that loom at any moment are immediately visible in our football. “The importance of Gasperina’s importance is extremely important: he is preparing as an Olympic champion. no, not gravtsiv. She prepares Atalanta this way - it is symbolic that she wears the name of the goddess who fought for everyone. Since Gravtsev doesn’t represent the greatest strengths of the coach, he shouldn’t approach, old Ronaldo and Messi have no place here. So the superstars are dissatisfied - such a savage Martin Skrtel signed a contract with Atalanta, but never played for her! " Chantly, through the century. It’s hard for you to catch our style,” the coach said dryly.
If Atalanta is in shape, it is extremely important to play with it. The first European League was won despite the unique folding net. Last season, Liverpool and Bayer were either not in the top 5, then in the top 10 of the strongest teams in Europe, but they lost their offense in the Olympics - and they lost it to Atalanti 0:3.
Who is especially troublesome on this team For us, first of all, Vikhovanets Sergei Baltachi. No worries, the legend of Dynamo Kiev worked richly at the London Charlton Academy - and looked after Lukman there. In England, Ademola was severely underestimated, but after Gasperin, he became the first footballer over 40 to score a hat-trick in the European Cup final. І to whom! Having suffered not just anyone, but such an infernal Bayer.
Scamacca looked at West Gemi with a chuckle, but played phenomenally well for Atalanta. Liverpool managed to beat Scamacca. Scalvini – possibly, new Scirea; Hire the price of the new super-zero lens, which the Academy of Bergamasco has won; de Roon and Ederson - a miraculous connection between the centralists, Bellanova - I repeat, a miraculous strength. And Atalanta will host Shakhtar with the status of the 12th team in the crisis Serie A.
So, for everything about Atalanta and Gasperina, we need to understand: this team, like any athlete, is constantly gaining shape. Real Madrid played the simplest match of the entire summer in the UEFA Super Cup - and the saying “it’s Real” ceased to be relevant when the Bergamasques lost to Torino and Como.
Atalanta still doesn’t win the championship, but wants to defeat Liverpool and Bayer (I’m not talking about victories over any Italian giant), so they are ready to finish the super top ranking for a few months in the season.. In the 2019/20 season, Atalanta scored 98 goals in the championship - by 17 (! ) more, the closest re-examiner, won nine matches once, and her winless streak extended to 17 rounds.
The axis only led until the third place - because the team regularly lost points and missed a lot.
It’s common for Bergamasques to know a similar joke for themselves. Gasperina still has to find out the optimal functions and place on the field for Retegi, Zaniolo, Bellanovi – and Scalvini and Scamacca are currently injured. There is no doubt that the Gasperins in Bergamo have created a phenomenal project, one of the most powerful coaching works of the 21st century - but this does not mean that Shakhtar cannot immediately shock anyone.