Bergamo injured “shakes off the dust of Corona”

“Playing the Champions League in Bergamo is important from a sporting point of view, but also from an emotional point of view.” This is what Fabio Gennari, author of a recently published book on Atalanta’s fantastic journey in the Italian League and the Champions League last season, says. “There is a social benefit in organizing a competition of this type, a kind of resurgence of a city that was seen as the epicenter of the pandemic,” adds the writer.

The province of Bergamo was the most affected in Italy by the Corona virus, in addition to Brescia. Additional deaths were estimated at 7,000 people, and the scenes of military trucks carrying coffins stacked in churches are still etched in our minds.
After the relatively overcome pandemic, work was carried out on the maintenance of the facility that the club bought from the city in 2017, in its entirety, in order to comply with the football standards of the European Union, and so that the club from the city do not have to play in Milan at the “San Siro” stadium. The first match is scheduled to take place today in Bergamo against Ajax Amsterdam, without fans, due to the protocol to limit the spread of the virus and the new restrictions imposed in Italy.
In addition to the symbolic and emotional aspect of playing in a dueling city, the renovation of the stadium is part of the economic and sporting development of the “success story” of Italian football in recent years.
“From a management point of view, Atalanta is the model for me. The club has not invested more than its size. The acquisition and renovation of the stadium has been absorbed,” says writer Fabio Gennari.
And if Atalanta allowed itself to sign more valuable players in recent seasons to enter the rhythm of the Champions League competition, such as the Colombian Luis Morial, the Ukrainian Ruslan Malinowski and the Russian Alexei Miranchuk, but the policy of training their players allowed him to balance accounts thanks to the profitable deals he made. And their coffers rebounded by around one hundred million euros, after the sale of the Swedish Diane Koloshevsky (Juventus), the Ivory Coast Ahmed Traoré (Manchester United of England) and the Belgian Timothy Castani (Leicester City).
Atalanta and its ambitious owner, Percassi, will continue to win a title that consolidates the club’s history, after winning the Cup once in the 1960s.

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