Roberto Baggio told Emanuela Audisio for the Republic Friday. An interview in which the Divin Codino retraced his career.
“I didn’t want to leave Fiorentina but the Pontellos were lying and they had already given me to the Agnelli”. Roberto Baggio, the Divin Codino, in an interview with Emanuela Audisio for Friday di Repubblica remembers his move to Juventus in 1990, after five seasons with the purple lily sewn on his heart between beginnings, injuries and those flashes of genius loved by the public. “It’s called gratitude and I felt it for a city that has been waiting for me for two years, or rather three – says Baggio – When I was broke, with broken knees, the city pampered and respected me. Not only. Once I come back at three in the morning from Cesena, where I had scored two goals for the national team, and the avenue that leads to me is full of people who want to celebrate me. How can you forget such a thing? “.
On his transition to the Juventus everything has been said and written, even many lies that unfortunately have left their mark. Florence experienced days of urban warfare, the city and the fans took to the field to defend their idol from the future as a champion: “I didn’t want to leave Fiorentina – explains an excited Baggio – I was 23, I was buying a house, I moved, we were expecting a child, but I discovered that the outgoing owners, the Pontellos, were lying, they had already sold me to the Agnelli. I went to Rome twice to talk to Cecchi Gori and the second time he tells me: if you don’t go to Juve they won’t let me buy the club. And so I passed as a mercenary ”.
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