Milano – There are two places where Sandro was reborn Tonaliformer reprobate of the betting case and new symbol of National. The first place is a stadium of England northern, lashed by wind and rain, between Scotland and North Sea.
The big box that rumbles when he plays inside it Newcastleis called St James’ Park, is filled with 50 thousand people, one sixth of the city’s inhabitants, and is on the hill that leads to the Gallowgate End, the steps that take their name from the gallows, the gallows for hangings.
Returning after suspension: the Premier League
At the beginning of September Tonali came down from the scaffold of the ten-month disqualification and the internet courts, entering the field for the match with Tottenham. He heard the chants and applause and saw the banner: “Midfield Maestro from Milano”. He reciprocated in his own way: playing as if the long parenthesis in punishment, training and that’s it Darsley Parkthe English-speaking Milanello, had never existed. The fans of Newcastlethe Geordies who speak a dialect indigestible to the English themselves, live the team like a religion, follow it everywhere, rave about the derby with Sunderland more than for the Champions tasted it last year. And even if they are grateful to the Saudi owners of the fund Pifhave boundless affection especially for those who wear the black and white shirt, starting with the Italian boy who arrived from Milan, loved even when the English Football Federation attributed other violations of the betting rules to him. He has abandoned his compulsive relationship with his cell phone and has cut his salary by 8 million euros a year, as the coach revealed Howehe found new companions to joke with, he smiled more and more often, returning home to Jesmond, his neighborhood full of greenery. On the green of the pitch he appreciated his dimension as an exile Premier Leagueperfect championship for a complete midfielder, director and raider, midfielder and attacking midfielder, hunter and sorter of balls.
The return after the disqualification: the national team
But the second place where he was reborn Tonali is even more important: Covercianothe home of the national team. Today marks a not so glorious anniversary. On 12 October 2023, the police showed up to seize, in search of traces on the dossier opened by Nicolò Fagioli’s confession, the mobile phones and tablets of Sandro Tonali and Nicolò Zaniolo, who was later exonerated. The sequel is known: the ten-month bans for Tonali, who admitted to having also bet on matches Milan (to win), and seven for Fagioli, who participated all’Europeo: both with the additional penalty of public sessions on gambling addiction. The twenty-four year old is at school Sandro he spoke as an older brother: «If you have a problem, talk about it. Don’t hide from those who love you.”
The return to the Azzurri
In addition to family and friends, the FIGC and Spalletti loved him (“he made a mistake and he paid for it, I have faith in him”). In Paris Tonali dragged the midfield, orphaned by Barella, to victory against Mbappé’s France. It repeated itself with Israel and col Belgiumlast Thursday, in the department completed by Cambiaso and Dimarco, impetuous wingers, and from the link with Ricci and Frattesi, connected to the all-round center forward Retegui. The fulcrum was the number eight, always at the center of the action, capable of dispensing tranquility and energy, even when Pellegrini’s expulsion dangerously widened the spaces. There his physical strength emerged.
The past at Milan
He only left at the end, exhausted and a little bruised, making his regret legitimate: who knows what would have happened, all’Europeoif there had been Tonali. The symbolic ten minutes in which Beans played alongside him and the call-up of Zaniolo to replace the suspended Pellegrini are the message of Spalletti: those who deserve it can rise to the top.
AC Milan fans have another type of regret when they look at the photo of the Florence-Rome train with a trio of friends: Cagethe only one still in the squad at Milanello, Daniel Maldini and exactly Tonaliprotagonist of the 2022 scudetto.
Maldini senior explained to Repubblica: “If Massara and I had remained managers, we would have kept him.” The boy from Lodi, born on 8 May 2000 at exactly forty years old to Franco Baresi, blossomed in Brescia, compared to Pirlo also for a vague physical resemblance and ready to ask Gattuso for permission to wear the number eight shirt and cut his salary because he hadn’t lived up to himself, he dreamed of being Milan’s captain: “Mine is a fan’s tale,” he told Repubblica in 2022.
But in the summer of 2023 the Milan American gave it up. And in the document in which Washington Harbor offers investors the purchase of shares of RedBird for one hundred and fifty million euros, the reasons for the recantation are very clear: the 59.5 million capital gain. Now he has to replenish the balance of his few appearances (seventeen) in the national team. Which today, 12 October 2024, he hopes to rediscover America in two years, at the World Cup.
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