do u remember Dom, when, a few months ago we were talking about why fabrizio was treated so badly by juventus?... well, now we now why.
http://fourfourtwo.com/news/italy/6690/default.aspx
Fabrizio Miccoli paid an high price for doing what a few people had the courage to do here in italy: defying Luciano moggi and his gang.
u might think fabrizio is just trying to blame the moggis for what happened to him. But fabrizio is
the 23rd player who told exactly the same story to the italian magistrate Luca Palamara (who is guiding the criminal trial against the moggis and the GEA).
amoruso, baiocco, grabbi, and many other players told the same story. they were "advised" to fire their own agents and to join "the gea family", moggi told them their carreer would have been "easier"....
most of the players said ok, but some of them didn't (amoruso, grabbi, miccoli and many others). when they refused alessandro and luciano moggi began to threaten them. they said "
if u won't change your agent and hire the gea then u won't play football anymore, your carreer in italy will end..... "
and it's a very worryngly coincidence that all those players who had the courage to say "no" actually faced exactly those troubles moggi threatened.
i can't wait the trial to end..coz i really can't wait to see those 2 bastards (father and son) in jail.
on the other side, i have be thankful to them, coz thanks to them, now i can watch an amazing football player showing his pure class at the renzo barbera stadium every week.
moving to less disgusting subjects, fabrizio miccoli is a fantastic player, and we all know it. we all saw, through the years, what he can do with a ball, we all read about ronaldinho asking rijkaard (after a juve-barcelona friendly match, played a couple of years ago) "who is that footballing genious"... we all know he could easily be playing in top clubs like real madrid, milan, inter, man utd, , etc... coz he's really on the same level of some of their fowards.
is he as good as del piero?... i guess not. but how many players in europe are as good or better than alex? honestly a few.. And however Don, u can't deny it, he's very close to him, talking about technique.
giovinco honestly seems to be following roberto baggio's footsteps, rather than del piero's ones, so yes, he is more promising than miccoli was...... but miccoli already kept his promise...while sebastian has still everything to prove.
p.s. i know it's crazy to compare sebastian to such a legendary player like baggio, and i'm not the kind of football fan who usually exalts promising young guns, attracted by the general hype..... but let's face it, they speak the same language on the pitch, i watched giovinco a lot this season and honestly it's almost scarying what a huge resemblace there is between his movements, his tendencies, his features and roberto's ones.
of course this doesn't mean anything. sebastian might turn into a flop, into a good player, into a fantastic player like miccoli or into a world class player like alex.
but what he showed us this season is more than a "miccoli wannabe" player, it's even more than a "del piero wannabe" player.... i mean, look at that video i posted, look at his goal last week, look at his last 3 performances with italy under 21 team....that's not what del piero does, neither cassano or totti.... that's what roberto used to do