Italy – Italian coach Gian Piero Gasperini, coach of Atalanta, mentioned that he’s proud to carry the European Soccer League Cup to Italy following 25 years, together with his crew’s victory over Bayer Leverkusen.
Atalanta FC received a continental title for the primary time in its historical past, beating German Bayer Leverkusen (3-0) within the remaining that introduced them collectively yesterday night, Wednesday, within the Irish capital, Dublin, to carry the Bergamo membership once more to the rostrum following an absence of 25 years, particularly when Parma additionally defeated French Marseille (3-0), within the 1999 remaining, to win the European title in its previous kind, and it was generally known as the “European Union Cup.”
Gian Piero Gasperini mentioned following profitable the historic title: “We’re very completely satisfied. All of us made historical past, the followers who moved in giant numbers from Bergamo to Dublin, the gamers, the technical employees and the administration.”
He added: “Very happy with all of Italy as a result of it was a cursed cup. Solely Inter and Roma have reached the ultimate up to now 25 years and misplaced. Successful it with Atalanta is maybe a kind of nice tales in soccer that hardly ever occurs, and it exhibits that there’s nonetheless room for advantage in soccer.
The veteran Italian coach continued: “There may be nonetheless room for extra concepts, and it isn’t nearly numbers and massive golf equipment within the league.”
Atlanta, which was based in 1907, has an extended and wealthy historical past and is linked to the town of Bergamo in northern Italy, which turned the middle of the “Corona” pandemic within the nation in 2020.
The unfold of the illness induced the dying charge to rise 5 occasions greater than in earlier years, and harmed the town’s economic system.
In response to a query regarding what profitable the title means for the folks of Bergamo following the challenges of the pandemic, Gian Piero Gasperini mentioned: “It’s troublesome to erase sure fears even when a number of years have handed since then. They had been very painful moments. The folks of Bergamo had been at all times able to combat once more even when the going bought robust. In fact, we will be unable to eliminate all this ache, however I feel we had been in a position to put a smile on the faces of Bergamo followers.”
Veteran coach Gian Piero Gasperini by no means knew the that means of give up on the earth of soccer, and he held on to his dream till he lastly received his first title following main Atalanta to the rostrum within the 2024 European League Cup.
Atalanta lastly ended a sequence of 51 consecutive matches throughout which Bayer Leverkusen, the champion of the “Bundesliga”, had not misplaced in all tournaments, and defeated them by three unanswered objectives within the “Europa League” remaining in Eire, yesterday night, Wednesday.
The veteran Italian coach (66 years previous) achieved an inspiring profession for different coaches, which started in 1994 with the youth crew of Juventus, the historic champion of Italian soccer, earlier than transferring between a number of golf equipment later, together with Crotone, Genoa, Inter Milan and Palermo.
Gian Piero Gasperini lastly landed within the Atalanta crew, and has been on the helm of its technical management since 2016.
The attention-grabbing factor is that the veteran coach waited a full 820 matches to crown his nice efforts on the earth of teaching with the primary title in his historical past, and he by no means raised the white flag.
In keeping with the Transfermarkt web site for numbers and statistics, Gasperini performed 820 matches with all groups and in all tournaments. He achieved wins 374 occasions and fell to a attract 374 matches, whereas dropping on 249 events.
Gasperini was already on the verge of profitable his first title as a coach in 2011, when he took over the technical management of the Italian crew Inter Milan, and led it within the native Tremendous Cup match in opposition to its neighbor and historic rival, Milan.
However the “derby” match within the Italian Tremendous Cup ended with Milan’s victory (2-1), depriving Gasperini of his first title on the earth of soccer.
Due to that match, Inter Milan entered the darkish tunnel beneath the management of Gian Piero Gasperini and misplaced within the begin of the Italian League by the hands of Palermo (3-4), then tied 0-0 at dwelling in opposition to Roma, following which misplaced amongst its followers to Turkish Trabzonspor within the Champions League, leaving early. From the slim door.
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2024-05-24 03:50:48
