Ferrari also appears. Life “overturned”, the indiscretions after the triumph – Libero Quotidiano

If the best results in Italian history have arrived in Tokyo after months of internal struggle (the previous governments tried to downsize the CONI and “nationalize” sport), who knows what Paris 2024 could become with a definitive counter-reform and an independence guaranteed to Giovanni Malagò. The hope is that “Coni can now only deal with sports”. Italy would be able to offer more Marcell Jacobs, the brightest surprise also because it is the daughter of the good relationship Coni-Fidal-staff-athlete. While looking for and nurturing the next Jacobs, the facility that “created” the real Jacobs will have to be able to protect him so as not to squander his talent. It is a plunge into the unknown, into the unprecedented, into the unexpected. Marcello Magnani, agent of the 26-year-old Olympian in the 100 and 4×100, in fact quantifies the dizzying change of life of his client: “He will earn between 2.5 and 3 million dollars per season”. Here the salary guaranteed by the Gold Flames, first fundamental, becomes almost irrelevant.

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Engagement at meetings

“You can get a salary of 150 thousand dollars (127 thousand euros, ed) for a single race on the 100 of the Diamond League circuit”. Speech valid for the next meetings in Eugene, Lausanne, Paris, Brussels and Zurich. If every athlete struggles to participate, an Olympic champion overturns the relationship: he is asked to participate for money. And if the other Tokyo finalists were to be there and a rematch was set, the post would rise: «The engagement is always proportional to the cast». And so, Magnani explains the “beautiful” problem: managing the transition from athlete to star. The curtain on the Alitalia plane that brought the Azzurri back to Rome from Tokyo, with the commander asking Jacobs “Can you run faster than this plane?” Let’s organize a challenge »is a necessary commercial but it is more useful to Alitalia than to Jacobs. Sponsors are now elbowing and distracting: the old ones have already granted bonuses, such as Nike which offered an extra 100 thousand euros to hold onto its suddenly leading athlete and is ready to review the 850 thousand euros contract per year, while the new ones are in line. “Producers of eyewear, Parmigiano Reggiano and even Ferrari, but there is no hurry”: in the meantime, however, she accepts the invitation of John Elkann (read Ferrari) and Formula 1 (with Stefano Domenicali in the lead) to be in Monza with the relay teammates (“let me turn in an F1, please, I saw someone who did it with Leclerc in a two-seater Ferrari”) and upon arrival in Fiumicino, attacked by journalists, relatives and fans, thanks “Bolt for the nice words in the interview”, he avoids the criticisms of the Americans because “they come from journalists who do not know this sport” and stresses that “the bar is now raised and we need to keep our feet on the ground”. Thinking already about 9 “79. The attitude seems right. So Jacobs remembers that they are not all like him, but it is essential to think that all talented Italian athletes can become one, if well followed. Many of the blue medalists, even gold , they will not receive the same treatment because they do not play mainstream sports: take it Vito Dell’Aquila, despite his gold in taekwondo he will live on salary. But it belongs to a Federation, the Fita, which in 2019 was awarded as the best in the world because it finds talents, takes them to Acqua Acetosa in Rome (at the moment there are 8) and makes them study and train with the best teachers. . Let it be an example. For the rest, attention to grassroots sport, that is to the athletes of the future, will be decisive. There are new Jacobs there.

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