The challenge that will not be there. Pirlo and Gattuso, save us from protocols and objections



[ad_1]

We will die buried by subtleties. Overwhelmed by a mountain of rules, even those that protect us, even those that push us into a weary return to normalcy. Naples is not going to Turin: did you misunderstand the rules? He did it on purpose? Did it hit a nerve in the protocol we’ve been following for weeks? These are questions we must ask ourselves, whether we like it or not, because the rest of the championship depends on the answers. Sandwiched between the suffocating Nations League and the lost Italian Cup, mired in a calendar that does not support postponements because there is no space. And because great football hasn’t been able to tell itself that a plan B was needed. Call them playoffs, call it a bubble: last year we stopped in March, now on the third day we won’t see two races. Obviously this will not go very far.

Meanwhile, they will not be played in Turin. Unless you decide to travel at the last minute from the Gulf. In everyday life, reservations are never really cheap. But come, look, shout it would be a movie epilogue. Athletes are forced to grapple with protocol notes, circulars, even the Constitution. Fans watch with popcorn in one hand and a smartphone in the other, they do what they are supposed to do. They break up and make fun of each other. Juventus communicates immediately, fast, premature because even premature: the bianconeri will be on the field. Napoli chooses the path of silence: not a press release, a press release, a carrier pigeon, a smoke signal. Yet it is the Azzurri, rightly or wrongly, who did not get on the plane. The League reiterates that the game continues on schedule: the ball passes, hot, between the feet of the FIGC. Will the sports judge really solve the problem? It would be, in many ways, sensational.

And then there are them. Andrea Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso. Decades side by side, in Milan and in the national team. Pass the ball. So different and so complementary. The only ones, once again, who can get us out of the labyrinth of a protocol and the footnotes of a circular. However, it turns out that we’re sure neither of us would have wanted all of this. We can’t believe the Teacher He dreams of winning in the shadows, the one who has always brought light to the field. Not even that I growl You hope to avoid confrontation, the one who has never been afraid of anything or anyone. It would have been the first match between us as coaches. In another life, they have played many as opponents and even more as teammates. It would be, could still be, his partner: lifelong friends, rivals for one night. One steals the ball and the other invents a wonderful assist: they have done it a thousand times, until the Berlin sky was tinted blue. Let the gentlemen of written football face a truth: nobody will be passionate about subtleties, protocols. We know it won’t be that simple. That Juve (also in isolation), if Napoli are wrong, have the right to respect the same rules for everyone. That Napoli, if he is not mistaken, may invoke the health provision of the ASL. But Pirlo and Gattuso know better than anyone why we are passionate about their adventures. Because they happen in the field, not at the table.



[ad_2]