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From the ninth Italian Championship, the 1906 one, the teams had to hook two uprights to the three posts (the two vertical and the horizontal, called the crossbar, of the goal) that allowed to deploy a net, whose function is to keep it differentiated. the winning trajectories of the slightly misguided shots, which could escape visual perception, when they were particularly powerful. Since in football, unlike his Rugby “cousin”, mainly the ball is tackled instead of being carried, the current moment of the match is accompanied by fans with the cry “net!” – or, more recently, goal! -, Genoa’s 2-1 victory in La Spezia on “Good Friday” 2007 had the truly unique characteristic that in both scored the Rossoblù scorers, able to take advantage of two corner kicks from the left of Omar “Hannibal” Milanetto , with their deviations from very close, they made the ball cross the goal line between the two poles, but not so that it touched the net: in the literal sense, they created, according to the regulations, the “goals”.
It was Gian Piero “Gasperson” Gasperini’s men (Grugliasco’s coach sent to the field, among others, the young defenders Domenico “Mimmo” Criscito -from the beginning-, who scored the goal that was decisive, and Andrea “The White Thuram” Masiello -in the second half of the second half-, who after having played at Zenit Saint Petersburg -the first- and in Bari and Atalanta -the second- wore the rossoblù shirt again) the third of five consecutive wins (after 3 -0 in Crotone and 1-0 at home in AlbinoLeffe and before the two victories at home (3-0 against Bologna and 2-0 against Vicenza) that allowed Genoa to add a “treasure” of points that would have allowed the final of the championship, in which he finished behind Juventus and Napoli, ten ahead of fourth in the standings, Piacenza, and be the only team in the cadeteria since the play-offs were established promoted directly by third, avoiding this “tail”, having inflicted on that occasion that clear gap (ten points are, in addition, the minimum quota of the gap between the third and the fourth provided by the regulations to repeal the extension of the litigation for the last available “armchair” for the jump in the highest category) to team E milian.
Interestingly, the “Alberto Picco” match won by Genoa was played exactly one year after what the Eaglets had seen in the previous Series C1 Championship win their first win – 2-0 – in an official match against Vecchio Grifone, to whom he had inflicted his only defeat at home in the first leg of the cadet championship – 1-2 on Saturday 18 November 2006 – in a year in which Rossoblù had to be content with having won – 3-2 – with regional rivals only the home game – knockout – of the Italian Cup on Saturday 19 August.
In the first half there were two occasions in which a player came face to face with the opposing goalkeeper: first, at 16 ‘, on the “verticalization” of Guilherme Raymundo “Guly” do Prado, Davide Saverino, desecrated by the left and pressed by Francesco “Ciccio” Bega, he started four meters from the baseline. on the low exit of the Brazilian goalkeeper of the Brazilian guests Rubén Fernando Moedim “Rubinho”, a diagonal cross shot that crossed the entire “mirror” of the goal, with the ball ending its run not far from the left post; then, at 18 ‘, Marco «Suoer Marco» Di Vaio, moved to the right and unmarked by an enlightening passage fromThe Honduran Julio César “Rambo” León Dailey, recovered a shot from the right floor, which, devoid of the necessary “evil”, had been fired from only six meters, by the left foot of Nicola “Balena” Santoni, throwing himself in front of he. Di Vaio would have been pardoned eleven minutes later, having been found free in the “Second post” to correct the center of Milanetto’s flag that had flown over the goal area in a rather fortuitous way from left inside in the time trial from four meters, sending the ball mockingly past Curva Ferrovia, “heart” of the La Spezia fans. the finish line, from which he was belatedly rejected with a «smanacciata» diving from Santoni. At 39 ‘the hosts with a nice inside right diagonal from thirteen meters from Simone Confalone, who sent the ball a few inches from the left post, almost equalized.
At three minutes into the second half, Genoa, at the end of a beautiful “triangulation” between Di Vaio, captain Marco Rossi and Mirco Gasparetto awarded him the “encore” of Di Vaio’s missed opportunity in the first half, since the not very determined conclusion of the The center forward with a right plate from seven meters was rejected with his right knee by Santoni. But another knee, Criscito’s left, who was ready, in the “spizza” of the head of Lion Dailey in the center of Milanetto’s corner kick, pushing the ball from two meters above the goal line, beyond which it was blocked by Santoni, sent the two thousand rossoblù fans huddled in the Pool Corner up in ecstasy . The final was dramatic both from the sporting point of view, because the hosts had managed to halve the deficit in the half hour with a masterful free kick to dead goal from the inside right of do Prado (shot from about twenty-two meters, between the other, of “Wrong side”, that is to say on the right), which was forgiven by the La Spezia fans for the diagonal slackness of the right interior from the edge of the penalty area, which was started three minutes before and rejected in a plunge by «Rubinho», sending the ball to “Remove the cobweb” from the high angle of the left post, and sanitary, with the Brazilian defender of the guests forced to leave battered (contusion in the arch of the left eyebrow) after crashing against the left post in a vain attempt to repel with a plastic flight the free kick of his compatriot (the substitute goalkeeper was sent to defend the goal Alessio «Gatto» Scarpi) and in 34 ‘Adailton Martins Bolzan «AdailtonForced to leave the field and his teammates in ten men (the three allowed substitutions had already been made), both involuntarily and violently beaten, while losing his balance due to a push from Giovanni Rossi, on Paolo’s left cheek ”. Il Muratore »Ponzo (the former Genoa youth player who died forty-one years in the Hospital” Santa Corona “in Pietra Ligure as a result of a cold he suffered while participating on Sunday, March 24, 2013 in a foot race near Loano ) with the left knee in contrast medium (for the Brazilian forward of Genoa, who left on a stretcher, it was necessary to use the defibrillator). While attacking continuously, thanks to the numerical superiority, towards the opposing goal below the Ferrovia Curve, Spezia failed to create a real opportunity to even the game.
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La Spezia, Friday April 6, 2007, “Alberto Picco” Stadium, 4:00 p.m.
Spezia 1-2 Genoa [XXXIII giornata del Campionato Italiano di Serie B 2006/2007]
Referee: Morganti [Ascoli Piceno]
Spectators: about nine thousand
Scorers: in the 1st half at 29«Di Vaio (G); in the 2nd half at 6 ‘Criscito (G), at 30’ do Prado (S)
Spezia (4-3-2-1): 22 Santoni; 27 Nicola, 6 Scarlato, 2 Giuliano, 14 Gio. Rossi; 46 Frara (from 24 ‘of 2º T.: 7 Ponzo), 21 Saverino, 4 Confalone; 81 do Prado, 33 Guzmán (8 ‘of the 2nd T .: 18 C. Colombo); 11 Guidetti. Coach: Soda.
Genoa (4-3-3): 83 Rubinho (from 32 ‘on matchday 2: 73 Scarpi); 4 Bega, 27 Stellini, 19 Criscito; March 7 Rossi, 33 Milanetto, 28 Juriformer, From 29 Fabiano Lima Rodrigues; 11 LeOhn (from 28 ‘of 2º T.: 34 A. Masiello), 30 Gasparetto I, 21 Di Vaio (of 16’ of 2º T.: 10 There isilton). Coach: Gasperini.
Notes: about two thousand fans following Genoa. C. Colombo had replaced Jadid in the Brescia standings on 12 ‘of the 2nd T. (in which he had played until the home game with Pescara won 2-1 on Saturday 20 January 2007, when the 28 ‘of the 2nd T. had replaced Del Nero) in the game lost at home by the Lombards 0-2 against Genoa on Saturday 14 October 2006. At 30’ of the 2nd T. do Prado scores a beautiful goal from free kick from about 22 m. 34 ‘from the 2nd T. There isIlton, injured, leaves, leaving Genoa in ten.
Stefano Massa
(member of the Research and History Committee of the Genoa History Museum)
