The coach is in the balance, results and statistics do not help him. Yesterday he deserted the press conference. And the whole city stops
La Spezia – The glory and the infamy, the past and what it will be, a shirt to keep under the skin, if it is not skin. Thiago Motta today he wants to erase many things; a period of ups and downs at the helm of the eagles, those rumors about his future linked to the results, the statistics that do not help him, the weaknesses of the wind defense that takes goals from 25 consecutive games (with him 9).
Then, looking closely, even what the fans produced years ago, betrayal, football nonsense, emotional logic of the fans and pseudo-such, at times.
In December 2019, last on the Genoa bench, the defeat against Inter cost him his place, but there were those who saw something rotten; since the exemption was now written, Motta would have “shied away” in front of his former team, also applauded by his former Nerazzurri fans. Thiago was disappointed, and he said it clearly, as he left his future salaries on the table for Preziosi and left.
That the story can end there will also be said by the Genoa fans, who seem to have prepared a chorus this afternoon to remind him who was (not who was not) on the pitch. Because Motta and Genoa were another great story as a footballer, made up of ups and downs rather than descents and of a Gasperini who had reinvented an old iron, a player who arrived, for the most part, broken, from Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Thiago cannot fail to remember Gasp, the derbies he won with Milito, his rebirth, which made him rich: the years at Inter where he won everything, then that princely contract at Paris Saint Germain, just when Ranieri begged you to stay in Nerazzurri.
A coach, busy as he will be today studying every game move, cannot abandon himself to melancholy, but it could happen. A few times in recent months, at La Spezia, he has shown weaknesses, a few times he spoke about his past, almost never touching on the subject of Genoa. Yesterday he also dribbled the conference, which would have been an amarcord. Too difficult even for a warrior. He did not disown Gyasi as a full-back or Strelec as a winger, and not even Salva Ferrer in midfield, let alone deny the griffin shirt, the golden years under the Lantern. It remains the symbol and one of the protagonists of one of the most beautiful Genoa of these decades. If he had a debt of gratitude to pay, towards the square and that club, which loved him so much, he may have consumed it in those ten coaching games in 2019. Ask the same team today to restart it but on the other side , to re-weld his position at La Spezia, it is difficult, but so it is. On an undoubtedly special afternoon.
If there is a minimum common denominator today, however, it is precisely between fans. Bill Shankly, a little man who became a statue in front of Anfield, said of the Liverpool supporters who had an extraordinary passion, because “while all the fans in the world have a job, they do something in life and go to see matches, the one of the Reds is the fan first and uses work as a tool to get the money to go to the stadium ».
Today they will be at the Peak over seven thousand, with 890 (and perhaps we are by default) who will come from Genoa, playing fans and giving up the job, not even foreseen for the occasion. On both sides, since in La Spezia the city closes earlier, around 4.30 pm, voting for the stadium. All for him, Thiago Motta, on both sides.
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