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Its definitive consecration came when the Panini family decided to use a photograph of Carletto making a reverse in perfect style, as a symbol for their sticker album. For all Italian kids, Parola became the one with the dumps.
“On my bike I was very fast uphill, too bad it wasn’t so good downhill. But it was a steep fall that made me cautious, sinking downriver from Pino Torinese, with serious consequences, a broken arm. It was soccer that reached my horizons a few years after my father’s death. I lived in Cuneo, where there was no Velodrome, but where there was a sports field: and it was there that I became familiar with the leather ball and became what I still consider the best game in the world.
When I returned to Turin, together with some passionate friends, I founded a team that, from the name of the field adjacent to the pitch on which the game was played, was called Brianza. I was barely 10 years old but I remember that in that team I did everything, from the defender to the center forward, from the midfielder to the winger and even the goalkeeper. Our team did not take long to make a name for itself and it also had its fans that, on Sunday, followed it, embarking on daring trips, perhaps to Porta Susa.
At that time he was enrolled in the Fiat student school. I worked, studied and played football, of course, in the Fiat boys team: I was a center forward, I scored a lot of goals. Juventus observers followed me with interest and that year on Zambelli’s recommendation I ended up in the ranks of the club I dreamed of day and night. I brought home 18 lire a month: think of when they went to see my mother and asked him if he would let me play for 750 lire a month! He looked at me and asked, “But is it really true?”
Later I learned that it had cost Juventus something like 60,000 lire, certainly a large sum. I got to work with all the enthusiasm possible, I was 18 years old and really wanted to break through. They immediately changed my role: from a center forward I went to the opposite side, that is, in the role of who controlled the scorers. Perhaps that is why I always approached former colleagues with some attention. I trembled at the idea that one day I could replace a certain Monti, I who was 18 years old and who called Foni, Rava and Gabetto “you. One day it happened: I made my debut for Juventus, in Serie A. Only against my current team, Novara; We won 1-0 and it was a beautiful, unforgettable day, me, a child, in the midst of so many champions! As a Methodist stopper, I defended myself quite well and then became more and more familiar with my role until I established myself as the owner.
Going from the guys at Fiat to the great Juventus was a wonderful thing: I think it’s the same for all players, although many times the debut is so full of emotions that you end up losing your sense of reality. Ten years later we won the Scudetto, immediately after the disappearance of Grande Torino. We continued the tradition that wanted the title to be the prerogative of the Turin clubs. It was a wonderful season: think we scored the beauty of 100 goals. Presidentissimo Agnelli had bought Martino, Hansen, Præst and other champions, we had Carver as coach. His Italian was still incomprehensible so the tactics were born in the field according to need.
That’s when we invented the free thing, although few noticed it. Unbeknownst to Carver himself, Karl Hansen acted as a midfielder, Mari was placed in the opponent’s center forward and I was on the last line behind him, just like today. At that time, however, there was not much talk about tactics: we played, we thought about scoring as many goals as possible and suffering as little as possible. With this it is not that we abandoned the attack but that we did it with 4 points. It was our elastic play in midfield that allowed us these possibilities, a tactic many clubs refer to even today.
We had great opponents, like Milan from the Gre-No-Li trio, but we won in style. Talking about this training with Boniperti, we coincide in a day dedicated to memory, that this was perhaps the most complete training of the postwar period. We won the championship with several points of advantage. It was my tenth season at Juventus (in general I played 15 leagues in Juventus) the most beautiful, without a doubt; even the next championship was not so full of satisfaction.
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