Fiorentina, Commisso: the comment of the deputy director of Gazzetta Di Caro

Maurizio Crozza will be rubbing his hands. We can already imagine him trying and trying Italian-American slang again. After the two hours of an involuntarily comic press conference – the goal, however, was something else … -, Rocco Commisso could rightfully enter the gallery of cult characters / speck masterfully reproduced by the Noschese of our times. Ways, accusations, conspiracies …: but this Don Rocco more than from a great Coppola or Scorsese gangster movie seems to have come out of an Italian “police” film of the B series. clumsy accusations, surreal plots. Too much of everything.

Don’t be offended, Commisso, do like us who prefer to laugh about it. Because if we took what he said yesterday seriously we would have to worry. But not for us in the Gazzetta, who ended up in the cauldron together with almost all of the national and local press, but for Fiorentina. Blaming the press or the environment is the most abused excuse in football by those who make mistakes, do not get results, fail to achieve goals. What unfortunately has happened for the fans at home in the last two years. Poor market, alleged shots in reality real flops, change of coaches, generalized chaos, players who want to leave, various controversies. This was not exactly what Florence expected when Commisso arrived, nor what he had promised.

The president certainly has many mitigating circumstances, Italian football is not easy at all, just as it is very difficult to extricate oneself from our bureaucracy: he immediately noticed it for the construction of a new stadium, an operation that was targeted upon arriving in Florence. Nothing wrong with that, it’s “bisinisse” as Virgil Sollozzo said to Michael Corleone in “The Godfather”. Nobody thinks that foreign properties come to Italy to buy clubs for the sake of colors. They are business, on the other hand Commisso had also tried to take Milan and it seems he wanted to enter Rome, or so the former president Pallotta often tweets. One thing is certain: it was welcomed by everyone with great sympathy and openness of credit, for that contagious slang and for that familiar face of a returning Italian who made a fortune. For a long time Commisso has had a friendly press and the fans always close by.

But in football the results count and no one is exempt from criticism or analysis when they don’t arrive and the Projects run aground. To think that, as he clumsily affirmed, there is the maneuver of two newspapers that are part of the history of the country, primed by their publisher to embarrass him and his club, is an accusation that is not only false, but so ridiculous that it is not deserve reply. We hope to Commisso that he will quickly recover not only the serenity of analysis but also the credibility that everyone, looking at what he built in the States, recognized him on his arrival. And that it can help, in addition to Fiorentina, our football system to grow. This arrogant, threatening and odd outburst, also criticized by his fans, has nothing to do with a certain beautiful America and instead reminds us of a certain ugly Italy. Which we prefer to remain only in old movies.