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The coach who launched the Slovenian in Palermo speaks: “He resolves the matches, but also for tactical reasons he would prefer to stay at Atalanta, which is his home.”
At home Rossi Josip Ilicic is one of the family. “I launched it in Palermo, my son discovered it”. Dario Rossi, scout profession, telephone in hand and passport ready to use. Today he works in Milan, ten years ago he found the Slovenian almost by chance. Word of father Delio: “Everything has been said about the preliminary against Maribor. We had already taken Bacinovic, so Sabatini sent my son to close the matter. When he returned he told us that the stronger of the two was a certain Ilicic …”.
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