Passa ai contenuti principali

Welcome to the "Derby of the Lantern"


We are only at the third round of this season but for both teams there's too much at stake. The Blucerchiati and The Rossoblu have known very dark nights in these years. That's why they honor always this match.


We are in the city of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. We are in a city gold medal for the Resistance during the Second World War. We are in a big industrial city, fatherland of great singers. We are in northern Italy but here, in the Old Town's streets, if you want, you can find a Latin soul. Welcome to Genoa, the city of Genoa Football Cricket Club (the oldest Italian football team) and Sampdoria UC. This Sunday will be a thrilling day for Genoese people. The Derby of the Lantern is knocking on city's doors and an odd spy-story monopolized the atmosphere in the last hours.


"LIKE RAMBO UNDER A TREE" - Luca Del Pra, a youth team Genoa's coach, was found hiding in a bush at Sampdoria's training. He was hiding "like Rambo under a tree", Sampdoria said in a statement. Genoa clarified: "No director or member of the coaching staff sent Luca Del Pra to watch the training session at Bogliasco. It was a personal initiative. This has never been done before and is not part of the club's modus operandi. The club makes it known that Del Pra has been suspended with immediate effect pending further explanations".

NOBODY CAN FAIL - We are only at the third round of this season but for Sampdoria UC and Genoa CFC there's too much at stake. The supporters of both teams are afraid of a hard season again and derby can change psychologically the destiny of the season. Until now, Sampdoria lost to Juventus at Marassi (0-1) and drew with Bologna (2-2) and Delio Rossi - Blucerchiati's coach since 2012 who trained Lazio in previous years - knows well derbies' atmosphere. Genoa CFC turned 120 years last 7 September, but in these first two matches didn't yet celebrate its prestigious birthday. Il Grifone lost to Inter (2-0) and to Fiorentina (2-5). Genoa's manager Liverani is not as experienced as Rossi. He is for first time on a Serie A's bench and the third consecutive defeats could mean immediate exemption. Italian football - on the other hand - is used to impulsive moves of Enrico Preziosi, the President of Rossoblu.

RECENT HISTORY - Some years ago - in the last part of 1980s and in the early 1990s - Sampdoria-Genoa was a real big match. In that period Vujadin Boskov - Yugoslav eccentric coach - was the condottiere of a wonderful group - we remember Gianluca Pagliuca, Pietro Vierchowod, Attilio Lombardo, Toninho Cerezo and the Gemelli del gol Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini - that won twice Italian Cups and played two consecutive finals of Uefa Cup Winner's Cup. In the first one they were defeated by Barcelona (1989), but following year they won the Cup against Anderlecht (1990). Two years later, they lost - again to Barcellona - a final of European Cup Wembley Stadium (1992). In 1991, Sampdoria won its first and only Scudetto, but supporters doriani celebrated with a bitter state in their mouth. In the first derby, Genoa defeated Sampdoria 2-1 in a legendary match. It was a rainy Sunday and the winning free kick by Branco - Brazilian left back - is a museum piece. In that season Osvaldo Bagnoli - Genoa's coach - took Rossoblu at fourth position and they qualified for Uefa Cup. In quarter finals, Genoa was the first Italian team that won at Anfield Road against Liverpool but lost to Ajax in semi-final matches. The fans of Grifone won't never forget the strikers Carlos Aguilera and Tomáš Skuhravý and the captain Gianluca Signorini (dead in 2002 after an illness).

In 2010-2011 season, the Derby of the Lantern was a dramatic moment for Sampdoria. Genoa won the match at the last second, when the Argentinean Boselli scored at 97' (2-1 the final result). The following Sunday Sampdoria was relegated to Serie B. The decline of these last decades - Genoa played also in Serie C1, the third Italian League - didn't never run down the importance of this match.
IN THE NAME OF THE LANTERN - Everybody knows Sampdoria and Genoa won't fight for Scudetto or Champions League zone not even this season, but warm supporters will welcome the clubs celebrating their glorious histories. A beautiful exhibition - year after year more exciting - will be organized on the terraces again. The Blucerchiati and The Rossoblu have known very dark nights in these years and the Lantern was often the only light they saw. That's why they honor always this match. Because it is dedicated to the symbol of this city. And the symbols will never die.

ANDREA MECCIA - Sunday, September 15 th, 2013 http://www.serieaddicted.com/news.php?id=117

Commenti

Post popolari in questo blog

Napoli, Baires: Maradonologia. Una bella chiacchierata con Pablo Alabarces

«Fútbol y Patria». «Peronistas, Populistas y Plebeyos». «Historia mínima del fútbol en América Latina». Questi sono solo tre titoli di una ricca produzione saggistica fatta di cronache politico-culturali e indagini sociologiche e letterarie. Chi vuole sapere di calcio e cultura popolare sudamericana deve passare per gli scritti di Pablo Alabarces e capirà qualcosa di cantanti mitologici come Palito Ortega, rock, tifoserie, sistema mediatico, violenza da stadio. Sociologo, argentino classe 1961, Alabarces è titolare di cattedra presso la UBA, l’Università di Buenos Aires. Lo incontriamo a Roma, zona Stazione Termini. Pablo è da poco rientrato nella capitale al termine di un bel soggiorno in una Napoli ebbra di festa per lo scudetto e dopo aver visitato Viggianello, borgo della Basilicata ai piedi del Pollino. «È la quinta volta che sono in Italia. Non ero mai stato nel paese dove nel 1882 nacque Antonio Carmelo Oliveto, mio nonno materno», ci racconta mentre ci incamminiamo verso Piazza

Remo Rapino, un undici fantastico e fantasioso

La storia del calcio è fatta anche di formazioni recitate tutte d’un fiato. Dal glorioso e drammatico incipit Bacigalupo-Ballarin-Maroso del Grande Torino al Zoff-Gentile-Cabrini – buono per la Juve di stampo trapattoniano e per l’Italia di Spagna ’82 – passando per il Sarti-Burgnich-Facchetti della Grande Inter del mago Herrera. Se, citando Eduardo Galeano oltre ad essere mendicanti di buon calcio, lo fossimo anche di letteratura ci sarebbe un nuovo undici da imparare a memoria. Un undici fantastico e fantasioso agli ordini dell’allenatore-partigiano Oliviero che fa così: Milo, Glauco, Osso Nilton, Treccani, Giuseppe, Wagner, Berto Dylan, Efrem Giresse, Pablo, Baffino, Nadir. Una squadra-romanzo piena del sapore della vita, che si confessa in prima persona. A immaginarla in Fubbàll (Minimum Fax, pp. 148, 16 euro) è stato Remo Rapino (1951), insegnante di storia e filosofia di stanza nell’abruzzese Lanciano e già premio Campiello 2020 con Vita, morte e miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio . 

Farsi una foto con Dios. L'intervista al fotografo Carlo Rainone

Sette anni fa Carlo Rainone (Palma Campania, 1989), fotografo-documentarista con un curriculum fatto di studi e collaborazioni internazionali, decide di scavare nel ventre della Napoli degli anni ’80, quelli, non solo, del dopo-terremoto, delle guerre di camorra e del contrabbando. Un immaginario che il cinema di questi anni sta riportando in superficie, dal Sorrentino di È stata la mano di Dio al Mixed by Erri di Sidney Sibilia senza dimenticare il Piano piano di Nicola Prosatore. L’obiettivo dell’indagine è assoluto, laborioso e faticoso ma il confronto costante con il fotografo Michel Campeau è di grande supporto. Bisogna infatti scovare la «foto con Maradona», il re della Napoli calcistica per sette tortuosi anni, il patrono pagano della moderna Partenope. Rainone inizia ad inseguire fotografie già scattate. Icone conservate in album di famiglia o piegate in portafogli, appese sui muri di negozi e laboratori, case, pizzerie e ristoranti. La consapevolezza sta tutta nelle parole