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In summer, Villasimius can become a dangerous place: "A few days ago I experienced the fires up close, very close to my holiday home."
Gianni De Biasi is enjoying the Sardinian sea. Blue water, red fire: "It turned out well, no one got hurt, but..." De Biasi, former midfielder, now coach, is waiting for a call: "The experience makes me feel strong, I can still give a lot."
Gianni De Biasi is from Sarmede, Treviso : “I was born near San Martino di Colle Umberto, the village of Ottavio Bottecchia, the cyclist who won the 'Tour de France' and died massacred by beatings, it has never been understood why. Some say he was beaten because he took a grape, others tell other versions. As a child, this story left an impression on me. I was an assistant parish priest in Venice in the 60s, whoever went to mass could play on the church field”. As a child he was a Juventus fan, but…: “I left this attitude the very day I played against the black and whites for the first time, with Pescara.
"They, the Juventus (Trapatoni's first Juventus, late 70s) were terribly unfriendly. On the pitch they behaved as if they owned the world, with an unbearable snobbery. From that moment on, my support for Juventus faded. Today I only support the teams I manage."
Even Inter was a disappointment for him: "The 1975-1976 season, I was a midfielder with a lot of hope and they put me in a room with Sandro Mazzola, a legend. Mazzola kept the light on until late at night, because he was writing his autobiography ('The First Slice of Cake', 1977). He would ask me: Gianni, does the lamp bother you? And I didn't complain: No, not at all. In fact, it bothered me a lot when I was sleeping. The real disappointment was different, I never made my debut in Serie A. At Perugia I was ready to enter, but someone got injured and coach Chiappella changed his mind, bringing in Acanfora. The result? Zero appearances with the Inter first team, only with the youth team".
De Biasi was considered a combative midfielder : "In fact, I was born as a 'mezzala'. Brescia was the team where I played the most and where I had Gigi Simoni as coach. He called me 'my boy', I would have thrown myself into a fire for him. A true master. I went to Brescia as part of the deal for Beccalossi. It was impossible to tag 'Becca', you could never take the ball from him. To stop him, you had to kick him. I send him a big hug".
De Biasi as a coach : "I have come a long way, from the deepest provinces. I have never had a manager. I have said 'no' to Gea twice. I have climbed the mountain without a helicopter. Whoever reaches the top with a pickaxe enjoys the most beautiful view."
At Brescia he trained Robi Baggio: "In 2003-2004, his last season. Coaching him was easy. People want to see Robi Baggio, I would tell him, and that would be the end of it. He had a broken knee and that was causing him back problems. I used to use a scooter and I wore an elastic neoprene bandage on my stomach, against the cold, like the famous belt of Dr. Gibaud. One day I said to him: Robi, try this. He took it, put it on, played and never took it off again. His back problems disappeared, his posture stabilized. Now that I think about it: Robi, you didn't give me that thing back... Don't worry, I'm kidding. Baggio was an indescribable 'fuoriklas', driven by a crazy passion for football. I would see him suffering: Robi, if you're not able to... And he, in Venetian dialect, would say to me: Mister, I play".
Torino, another beautiful chapter : "The immediate promotion to Serie A, dismissal, return and rescue. Then rescue once again. I had misunderstandings with president Urbano Cairo, but everything was cleared up. I was very happy when he invited me to his birthday party and from the stage he said: In my early days at Torino I did something crazy, I fired De Biasi. He told me that I would be his Ferguson and somehow I was, although by 'chance'. Cairo knows how to create value in any venture".
Albania, De Biasi's masterpiece : "We qualified for the 2016 European Championship, with a victory in Portugal over CR7. That's where my friendship with Prime Minister Edi Rama began, a hardened Juventus fan, but no problem. Rama modernized Albania, took it into the future. Today Tirana is a new and dynamic city. When Rama gave me the 'Cross of Skanderbeg', the country's highest honor, he threatened to take away my Italian passport if I signed for someone else... Rama gave me an Albanian diplomatic passport, which I go everywhere with, it has solved some problems for me in difficult places. When there are queues at the airports, I go straight through."
In 2016, before the European Championship, you were very close to Italy. "I got a call from Michele Uva, then the general director of FIGC. Coach Conte had announced that after the European Championship he would go to Chelsea and I was in pole position to replace him. It is true that the president of the Albanian Football Association, Armando Duka, told me that I could not abandon him, that if I went to France as a departing coach, I would weaken Albania. I believe there was something else, I don't know. I have a great feeling, even a terrible anger that I could not become the coach of Italy."
They didn't ask you to replace Spalletti? "No, and I'm sorry. Today I feel 30 times better, I've learned a lot from the blows I've taken. Experience gives you superior knowledge."
A wish outside of football : "My daughter, Chiara, an ophthalmologist at the civil hospital of Pordenone, got married in June and I hope she will make me a grandfather. I'm the right age for it." / Gazzetta dello Sport
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