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The reminiscence and love of Gigi Riva, the promotion and salvation and the connection with the island and its followers: Claudio Ranieri, after the final recreation that confirmed Serie A, says goodbye to Cagliari soccer. Saying goodbye to the pink and blue colours that signify not solely town however the complete area, in a video re-presented by Cagliari on his Instagram profile the place the “gentleman” recreates his journey in Sardinia.
The journey started in ’88
“My journey started in ’88. We had three fantastic years, then I left and grew up. Now it appears proper for me to go away after this salvation.”
And in truth in these years the younger Roman coach was capable of revive the workforce that had slipped to Serie C. Then one other expertise and return to the island.
A painful resolution
“It’s a painful, tough resolution, made recklessly but it surely’s okay to go now. I want to go like this and never possibly keep one other 12 months and issues usually are not going effectively – these are the coach’s phrases -. I used to be already afraid to return again, afraid to spoil the three years I lived right here and that stuffed my coronary heart. In occasions of hassle I clung to Cagliari and this pleasant island. I did not need to waste it and I did not need to return.”
Memory of Gigi Riva
And a shifting reminiscence of Thunderclap. «Then once I learn the phrases of Gigi Riva (“Claudio is considered one of us”) I got here again. I mentioned in my coronary heart, let’s cease fascinated by ourselves and go and take the chance. Now the time to go away has come.” In Ranieri’s phrases, the need “to be remembered as particular person, who requested for assist from the individuals of Cagliari and Sardinians. Without them we’d not have succeeded, the group didn’t abandon us, they all the time adopted us and consider my phrases. For this I’m eternally grateful to you, you made me have 12 months and a half. I hope to be a worthy consultant of Cagliari and all of Sardinia. “Thursday would be the final recreation and, Ranieri broadcasts, I offers you a heat hug”