Il cerchio del Gila
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00:00 Go alone, Gila! Go alone, Gila! Go alone, Gila!
00:06 So, the historic journalist Luca Serafini encouraged Alberto Gilardino
00:12 while he was flying and flying from the middle of the San Siro pitch,
00:16 facing the north side of the stadium, towards the goal of Van der Sar,
00:21 the top goalkeeper of Manchester United.
00:24 "Go alone, Gila!"
00:25 The chorus, the prayer, the encouragement in the telechronicle.
00:29 All right, even if now Mr. Gilardino is no longer going alone.
00:34 He can't do it. He has to go with his players, as a coach,
00:39 now, and in the middle of the group, in the heart of the environment.
00:42 He has to create a game system and an atmosphere with the players,
00:46 with the fans, with the journalists, with all the media.
00:49 A business that no one can live alone.
00:53 It is with his sense of the collective and the group
00:56 that his first year as a Serie A coach with Genoa
00:59 brings him back on the road to Milan, Alberto Gilardino.
01:03 This time as a technical opponent,
01:05 in a very different outfit from the one discovered
01:07 in the years between 2005 and 2008.
01:12 Alberto Gilardino was the Bielese boy
01:15 who closed the European and world circle of the Milan of the wonderful.
01:19 Exactly like that.
01:21 In the summer of 2005, the whole Milan world was between the tetra and the cupo,
01:27 between the frustrated, the stunned and above all the dead.
01:31 In Istanbul, something much more than biblical had happened in 2005
01:37 and the psychological balance of every Red-Black, of every order and rank had felt it.
01:42 But here he is, just him, a boy, Alberto Gilardino.
01:47 He was the first light that came on in Milan in the summer of 2005 after Istanbul
01:52 and he scored the last goal of Milan before Athens in May 2007.
01:56 Milan was already on 2-0 against the Red Devils of Sir Alex Ferguson,
02:01 Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo.
02:03 But after Gila had gone alone to score the 3-0 goal,
02:08 she had finally been reached, the longed-for, dreamed Greek capital.
02:14 "After Istanbul there is always Athens", the Red-Black fans always say.
02:19 The historical Milanese, the lovers of this team.
02:22 And after Istanbul there was him, Alberto Gilardino, the first step towards Athens.
02:27 In the summer of 2005, when he was still the Parma bomber,
02:31 controlled by the extraordinary commissioner Post Parmalat Enrico Bondi,
02:36 the former Parma Gigi Buffon, goalkeeper of Juventus, said
02:40 that whoever would have taken Gila between Milan and Juve would have won the next year's Scudetto.
02:45 And in July, while Milan was now trying to get out of the Istanbul shock bubble,
02:52 here is Alberto, trapped.
02:54 With the pace of the Red-Black market, he goes back to living, hoping,
02:57 to plan and design football.
02:59 The nightmare loses consistency, reality takes over.
03:05 Gila after Istanbul and Gila before Athens.
03:09 With the goal of 3-0, in the perfect match against Manchester United,
03:13 Gila's goal goes by itself.
03:16 The two faces of history, the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean Sea,
03:19 held together by a bridge, by a link called Gila.
03:23 The first heart attack after Istanbul, the last decisive wing blow to Athens.
03:28 Today there are also two faces of his career, a great forward and coach,
03:33 a serious and reserved player, a coach who accepted the challenge
03:37 of bringing from the spring to Serie A a historic Italian football brand,
03:41 like Genoa.
03:42 The team mate and the coach, Gilardino,
03:45 live in the words of Ignazio Abate.
03:48 As for Alberto Gilardino, I remember him with great pleasure,
03:54 because I had him as a national teammate,
03:58 a great forward, physically strong,
04:02 strong in the penalty area like few others,
04:05 and as a boy, a very balanced, loyal and sincere boy.
04:10 I think this side of his character helped him
04:14 in the new beast he covers.
04:17 I'm happy for him, for his career.
04:20 He was very good, he persevered,
04:23 he played a lot even in minor categories,
04:27 but his teams are always very prepared,
04:30 they know what they have to do.
04:32 Not only solidarity between teammates,
04:35 that emerges from the voice of Ignazio Abate,
04:38 but above all, affection and esteem that are not often found in the world of football.
04:43 The career of the Bielese was not all roses and flowers.
04:47 Competition, difficulties, shirt changes.
04:50 In 2023, Alberto Gilardino, for example,
04:53 knows how to insert and protect an attacker like Reteghi in his Genoa.
04:57 Also in light of his experience at AC Milan.
05:02 Everyone thought in August 2005
05:05 that Carlo Ancelotti's AC Milan stars would be Andriy Ishevchenko and Alberto Gilardino.
05:10 Instead, tensions, competition, pressure,
05:14 the balance of an uneasy world have arisen.
05:17 So much so that, slowly, Filippo Inzaghi
05:20 has returned to cannibalize his territory,
05:23 the penalty area and the Milan curve.
05:27 Gilardino would have also spoken about it from Florence,
05:30 after his three years at the Rossoneri.
05:32 In 2008, Alberto declared that at Fiorentina,
05:35 of course, there were offensive schemes,
05:37 while in Milan this did not happen.
05:40 Ancelotti's line-up was strong, striking.
05:44 We have privileged the instinct of Inzaghi,
05:46 who made us win three cups.
05:48 Strike and response is football.
05:51 A sport that has tempered Alberto,
05:53 made him big shoulders,
05:55 helped him to familiarize with all the sides,
05:58 the corners and the shades of the ball.
06:00 Gilardino's skin has become hard,
06:03 so much so that he trained Pro Vercelli,
06:05 rival of his Biella,
06:07 just in the pre- and post-COVID season.
06:10 A territory of his own,
06:11 including the metropolitan area of Turin
06:13 and the borders of the municipality of Vercelli,
06:15 a territory with which the relations were alternate,
06:18 despite the clashes that the city
06:20 has dedicated and posted near the Palazzo La Marmora in Biella,
06:23 the day after the World Cup won with the Blues in Berlin in 2006.
06:27 A bit of inconsistency,
06:29 but deep down his people have always known to stay close to him
06:32 and to be decisive for him, even far from Biella.
06:35 In 1999, in fact, Alberto Gilardino was 17
06:39 and his career as a professional started
06:41 with the Italian club of the same name,
06:43 and his career as a professional started in Piacenza,
06:46 where the coach was a real Biella fan,
06:49 Maurizio Braghin,
06:51 former defender of Varese and Avellino.
06:53 Gilardino's human portrait,
06:55 signed by Braghin,
06:56 is all based on the seriousness of the Genoa coach,
07:00 2023-2024.
07:02 Gilardino came to Piacenza very young,
07:05 I had followed him,
07:07 he had already been contacted both by Fiamentina and by Juventus,
07:12 then his parents decided to send him to Piacenza
07:15 and I think they made the right choice.
07:18 He has always been a player,
07:20 certainly very good,
07:22 because he was very young,
07:24 he burned all the stages
07:26 and he reached important levels,
07:28 because in addition to doing very well at Parma,
07:31 he did well at Milan,
07:33 and then in all the clubs where he was,
07:35 he always scored.
07:37 He is among the best 10 goalkeepers of all time in Italy,
07:41 so what can I say?
07:43 As a player I can only say that he was very strong
07:46 and he burned all the stages.
07:48 As a coach he is doing the same thing,
07:51 so you can only say that he is really very good.
07:54 Seriousness is Alberto's mood,
07:56 also for this reason,
07:58 his intimacy and his deep friendship
08:01 was built with Daniele Bonera,
08:04 a football man who has always been an adult by definition.
08:08 Bonera, the defender, has never been a boy,
08:11 never been young,
08:13 solid and stable,
08:15 then he became a technical collaborator of Stefano Pioli.
08:18 In Milan they called them the Parma Boys,
08:21 Bonni and Gila.
08:23 A closed circle with the arrival in Rossonero
08:26 of the Parmigianissimo Pioli,
08:28 of whom the former defender is known as an assistant
08:31 and of whom, on the other hand,
08:33 the former attacker is an opponent on the other bench.
08:36 And Gila has synthesized Amarassi.
08:38 Where did he play in the Champions League
08:40 with the Milan shirt, the bomber Alberto?
08:42 In Germany, on the pitch of Schalke 04.
08:45 And which coach did Alberto's coach, Mr. Alberto,
08:48 join the Genoa?
08:50 Him, Alexander Blessin, of course.
08:52 Born in Stuttgart, a German coach, in Germany.
08:55 A closed circle, the umpteenth.
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