From Corriere della Sera online, article by Fabio Monti
Boniperti, 80-year goals, silences and mysteries
Festival (sober) for the honorary president of Juventus, who won at Juventus All
MILAN - to wish Giampiero Boniperti, which today makes eighty, is a way to remember a character unique in the history of Italian football. Extraordinary and without the possibility of imitation. Juventino forever faithful (debut: March 2, '47, last appearance: 10 June '61), won five championships, playing in 444 league matches and scoring 178 goals. But he never told one, not even the two signed at Wembley in '53 when he played in Rest of the World against England (4-4). His stories are all linked to when the opponents hit or self-defense or because they hurt John Charles, a giant that never rebelled. He led the
Juve (as president) from '71 to '90 and then as CEO from '91 to '94. He made trophy collection (9 league titles and 10 cups) and mystery. Only an outsider could announce that "the functions entrusted to coach the first team for the '76-'77 season to Mr. Giovanni Trapattoni," in the last two lines of a written statement on May 22 '76 to make the retirement of the public ' Mr. Ugo Locatelli, Head of Youth. " '81, Who asked him if he had sold Causio Udinese, said: "Just ask him." If they have not announced the men of Europe 1, 30 April '82, the last day of open borders, would buy Platini became public two weeks later. Or maybe on July 31, the day of withdrawal. Boniperti was also the president of the record. After winning the Cup Winners' Cup, he went to bed without saying a word to those who had waited for two hours in the hotel in Basel: "The cup is sleeping with me. Good-bye. " And he stuck in the elevator. In its place, Berlusconi would talk for a whole day and Moratti for six hours. The silence has always been its ideal habitat, because "the less said about less and you are wrong."
And why could not deal with those who "never even fought a corner and wants to explain to the football." From the President granted three minutes to reporters once a quarter, but after two hours of waiting at the headquarters of Sisport, on the banks of the Po, he was asking questions ("nice tie, at home, all right?", "how you feel Juve this?", "Platini you know of?"). Unless they decide to go out the window, dribbling all, as when he played. In February '82, he went to spy on Aston Villa in Birmingham, without telling anyone, paid the ticket, he went among the people and imposed the Trap in an attacking midfielder in a more and less: 2-1 for Juve. I wonder if, come the finish of the eighties, in the next few days a decision is made to explain why he had resigned as president of Juventus on February 5 '90 ('we feel in August, I tell you everything, "without specifying which year) and because he had agreed to return in May '91. Or why he always went after the first time, even on the stage of Ascoli, after a journey that lasted one day. Or maybe everyone will meet for 4 July 2028, the day will make a hundred.
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