The last to win. The last to enter the hearts of the people and remain there despite the stormy farewell. The last to remain on the bench and yellow for at least four seasons. Luciano Spalletti, the Roma, was this: was the last coach who led the club in the top 8 in Europe, the last one that has won trophies (3, two Italian Cups and a Super Cup), the ‘last that gave the team a game, the 4-2-3-1 without center-forward role, capable of resisting. In time and memory, despite the love is gone bad, with resignation and some poison, and without the great dream, the Scudetto.
SOME LOVE … – must be why Spalletti, a few friends, a few days ago she confided: “If I go, I end what I started. ” He was referring just to win the championship, which eluded him in 2008 so that, even today, on second thoughts: “We did not succeed because some referee errors”. Words full of regret, she gave Rai last October, when the return to Trigoria seemed a utopia. If you find the final agreement with Pallotta, who is reaching to Miami to pick up the legacy of Garcia, his will be one of those stories that Galliani condirebbe with background music Venditti: “Some love affairs do not end, they RPM immense and then return “.
START – Exactly. The tour Spalletti has seen him go to Russia, Zenit, where he won more than the Roma. Two league titles and a domestic cup, but the real spark was never taken. With Roma yes, ever since he set foot in Trigoria, 21 June 2005: “We share the right behaviors and normal,” he said, trying to instill calm in an environment that was hysterical to 5 coaches in one season. Chose Bruno Conti, the beginnings were not easy, Cassano was a grit that divided the locker room (the story is in dispute because the withdrawal of Bari wanted to decide volume and soundtrack of training in the gym), the team was not playing and not winning. Then, in a December night, an emergency because without strikers, Spalletti invents the 4-2-3-1 with Totti false 9, Roma draw at Genoa celebrates Christmas, gives Cassano to Real, and begins a series of 11 straight victories, culminating in the derby with Totti on crutches celebrating under the South.
CHELSEA – is the February of 2006, begin intense years, the Rome comes before the fifth season but after Calciopoli finds himself in second place and qualified for the Champions League, where it comes to the quarterfinals twice (2007 and 2008) and one in the second round (2009). The defeats are bad (historic 7-1 at Old Trafford), as well as hurts the second place in 2008 and ko against Inter in the Italian Cup and Super Cup. The relationship wears out when, in the summer in 2008, Spalletti says nothing to anyone and meets Chelsea (which will Ancelotti), only to return to Trigoria and deny everything. Players begin to trust less, the year is bad, Roma closes in sixth place and with the company’s crisis. Spalletti evidence to go on, but after the defeat against Juventus in August 2009, greets everyone, slams the door, resigns and leaves.
END – Leave Trigoria in tears, still looking back: 224 games including 153 in the league, has won more than half , 125, has lost 46, lived 1,492 days with the feeling of having done “a lot, but not everything.” From tonight, in Miami, provarà full circle. Although its Roma, who took a slap in the head, which was a round dance in the middle of the field, or improvised after dinner at the home of the injured Totti based tarts and Nutella, very little is left.
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