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Pietro Vierchowod, known as the “Tsar”, one of those defenders who just mentioning him makes many attackers break into a cold sweat. A defender so gloomy that Vicini is still reproached for not having put Maradona in the ’90 world semifinal, physically strong enough to stop playing at forty-one. However, not all attackers fell under his relentless blows. Some have put him in difficulties like, in the words of Vierchowod himself, Spadino Selvaggi. But there are those who, on a sunny Sunday in September, exalting those who were in the Comunale or with their ears glued to “All football minute by minute”, took the tsar and put him in his pocket: yes he calls Toni Polster .
Turin 1987/88 gave important farewells, first of all to President Sergio Rossi who sells the company to Gerbi and De Finis, unconsciously initiating the domino effect that we still pay today. The players who greet are many and strong: Francini, Junior, Dossena, Zaccarelli who leaves the football played, Kieft. It also leaves us with a performance player and a column like Beruatto, a reliable second (except in a Hansi Muller corner) like Copparoni, a good midfielder like Pileggi. The entries are few, but important. Excluding Zaninelli, who will act as a backup for Lorieri, they are all owners or such potentials: Benedetti who returns from the loan to Ascoli, Crippa who comes from Pavia and will be the incredible seasonal revelation, the Danish Berggreen, the precious Gritti and then of course , Polster, much loved by Radice, with a sensational average goal in Austria Vienna. Tall, powerful, but well-mannered feet, good at settling down on his own, but also helping the team.
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After passing the round in the Italian Cup, Toro debuted in the League with a daring defeat at Avellino with a goal from Schachner’s ex, a Polster draw (good dribbling to the goalkeeper and coldness in transforming Comi’s invitation), 2-1 on a free kick by Alessandro Bertoni and final mockery with the penalty saved by Di Leo in Gritti in the 90th minute. The challenge against Sampdoria is already an important crossroads, while, in the background, there is even talk of a return of Dossena in the grenade. The Sampdoria still does not know that it is entering the Comunale at the wrong time, on one of those afternoons in which, simply, there are none.
El Toro attacks under the Marathon and starts very strong. He immediately tries it on Saturday from the outside forcing Bistazzoni into a corner, then it is Polster who gives Sampdoria the chills after an incorrect defensive clearance. At 6 ‘the advantage is pure consequence. Polster wins a free kick from eighteen meters, Salsano deflects, the barrier begins to entangle with a ball that does not seem to want to get out of there. The number nine, after beating the placed, has not stopped running, an endless race that takes the ball just long enough to place it in the net with his left foot and then keep running where it matters most. Towards the curve.
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It is one of the best Radice-bis matches in Turin, very intense and spectacular. What fools the rivals is precisely that Polster is not the classic tower that is waiting on its site, but you can find it everywhere, as in the 20 ‘when you invent a playmaker launch in which Gritti will shoot to the side. For a moment, though, Toni leaves the stage to a boy from Philadelphia, one who is an epitome of usefulness, one who rarely scores bad goals when he scores. This, perhaps, is the most beautiful. A goal for Pulici and I don’t say it, but Pulici himself says it, who is in the stands. Ezio Rossi scores the goal. Berggreen crosses with the right from the left and Ezio, who started the action and rushed into the area, drives with his chest and instead of kicking with his left foot, as logic has it, acrobat with his right, putting on an unstoppable path . Bull two, Samp zero.
The Bull comes out of the locker room hot as fire, exactly as he came back, and immediately closes the accounts. At 46 ‘, a verticalization by Corradini is enough for Polster to unleash the ball again and, in the area, he tries to return to the left. Toni wins the rebound with Vierchowod who is disoriented, but stays between the feet. Polster looks for the space to kick and as soon as the “Russian” leaves it he puts it in the net with a strong and precise left. Vierchowod is petrified and, after a couple of seconds, puts his hands on his hips: it is surrender. Polster runs happily to the bench.
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The poker comes in the 79th minute: Ezio Rossi makes a clean defensive advance with his head held high and starts to prepare for action. After scoring a goal in Pulici, Ezio attempts a Beckenbauer action, but unfortunately for him, unlike Pupi, Kalle is not in the stands to confirm, but our eyes are enough to understand him. The number five grenade cuts the field with a low shot for Polster who gets rid of Vierchowod with an almost annoying push, a gesture that is wrapped with such logic that the referee does not whistle. Polster controls with the left and surpasses Bistazzoni for the third time, ranking at the top of the scorers with four goals in two games. Vialli’s flag goal goes almost unnoticed.
From that afternoon there is a wonderful photo in Stampa Sera: a very cool Root with sunglasses with open arms waiting for the Austrian ace for a liberating hug. There is all that Toro from the late eighties who that afternoon was still discovering the flavor of dreams on a practically perfect day, where the good news keeps coming with Crippa who discovers at the end of the race that he has been called up to the minors 21 years old. It will be a very long season, full of dreams and a very bitter and unfair ending. Polster will lower his goal average, but he will remain invaluable in the league and in the Italian Cup. Inexplicably it will be sold to Spain, where it will wreak havoc. Luis Muller, technically a midfielder, will never be able to warm us up like Toni did on that dreamy afternoon, that afternoon when the Vienna giant caught Vierchowod and put him in his pocket before taking the ball home.
Ps Culto is one year old. I wish him the best and it amazes me more and more that once a story is finished, there are always ten more to tell. With the Bull, however, it could not be otherwise.
Ps 2 personal note. Among the emails received from readers, all very precious and which make me really happy, there is one, which Giorgio sent me last week after the 3-2 derby piece, which I really liked, but which I couldn’t. answer, because it gave me an error. I take this opportunity to thank you here. Come on Taurus.
Born in 1979, a fan of Toro since 1985 thanks to Junior (or rather, to one of his letters). The first one I remember a Pusceddu goal at San Siro, the first one pissed off the elimination with Tirol, I have a secular cult of Policano, Lentini and… Marinelli. Sometimes I think of Sordo’s crossbar and I understand that it hasn’t happened to me yet.
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