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The “ugly” Vanoli …

De Lorenzi Dealership

Mah! Usually the usual north-west neuron erupts the next day or at most the one after again to dish out the hooks to attach to to complain as befits the Vanoli dangers.

This time, however, the dirty one took a little longer. It must have been for the things we said to each other with National Pauline before the race, which I will not reveal even on the verge of death, it must have been due to the extraordinary show put on by the Vanolian people on Sunday at the palace, it must have been the note Aldo Vanoli was Guerino da Soncino go and take the ovations with shining eyes at the end of the race, it will also have been my sweet Gigia to whom from Sunday evening, when the thought goes to Vanoli and surroundings, the tear fatally appears, will be the memories of these 13 years that overlap swirling in a continuous, poignant and very sweet catharsis of faces, words, circumstances, new friendships and cube passions, it will be all this and more but the fact is that that very personal lightning strike on Via Damascus did not arrive as usual for 13 years , the first five “clandestinely” and the other eight on these pixels, give me the right and also the left to put in line the Vanolian matters.

All this up to an hour ago.

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Yes, because it’s been an hour since not only the film of the Vanoli season but that of all these 13 years have made me recall one of the most beautiful stories of Don Camillo entitled “The ugly Madonna”, a matter this, to quote Giovannino Guareschi: “to make your hair stand on end because it tastes of collective blasphemy“. Guareschi tells us, however, that in reality this was the least that people could say about that statue, a real thorn in Don Camillo’s side.

The praeton of the lowland tried to get rid of her in a thousand ways, but they told him that he could not because it had a great historical value being very ancient. However, when he managed to restore the church by up to his neck in debt, he came to the conclusion that such an ugly statue could no longer fit in such splendor; he then asked once again the permission of the Christ of the high altar to be able to get rid of it.

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Giovannino Guareschi has Christ respond thus: “Don Camillo is therefore destined that I have to repeat the same speech with you. Because you still want me to tell you what I have told you a thousand times, that true beauty is not that of the face, true beauty is that which the eyes cannot see, which is inside and defies the ravages of time and does not become like the other land in the land”.

Don Camillo, however, was now launched and thought well, on the eve of the usual Augustan procession, to sabotage the statue by making it night time in the clay of the cuts here and there and to inflate the wheels of the truck on which it was placed in such a way that, jolt here and jolt there, it fell apart making it seem like an unfortunate accident. And so it happened. However, after the ugly Madonna had crumbled, a splendid silver Madonna appeared in its place.

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Now I have to talk to you about the reason for this and also challenging grapple, even if c’avrei half the idea that you have already guessed where this is going. So I could get away with a quickie by telling you: “well, what do you want from me? For once I could tell you to make your own hooks and draw your own conclusions, the ones that suit you best”.

However, I already imagine the snacks of the most sympathetic publisher of the globe in full trip from “Serie A of the well-known minor sport”, and then I wipe the sweat that comes down copiously from my forehead because of the effort I have to do (this also makes me laugh me …) and let’s try to earn the loaf since this year, as I seem to have already pointed out, is double the last year; true that does not change much because zero times two always equals zero, but I am proud of that “two” because, you can say what you want, it has its damned and beautiful why.

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I start by saying that in this very troubled season, for the thousand picanelli that they know about which we have already extensively talked about and therefore there is no going back, it was a “bad” Vanoli. So “ugly” that at times (Brescia, Brindisi …) it also happened to me not to recognize it anymore.

Unlike, however, those who instead started, continued and are still continuing to give us down badly by shooting a bit about everything (coach, GM, company, players and so on and so forth according to the well-known Italic habit of going up or down from the wagon …), to your Ciranone and, thank God, to many, many others it has instead happened a few and haggard times, as was amply deduced by the repeated and cheering paeans who came down from the grandstands of the palace last Sunday.

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It does not seem to be such a foregone conclusion; as an example I quote the chronicler from Trento sitting next to me on Sunday at the palace who blew me in my ear: “it’s the first time I’ve seen a relegated team and its president celebrated…”.

And do you know why it happens? Because the vast majority of the Vanolian people are in love with “his” creature and therefore have no reason to get off the cart because that cart is “home”.

Of course Vanoli, and by Vanoli I mean all of Vanoli, she is not perfect, she has the normal problems that happen when a community of human beings comes together with a purpose, some think that its biggest limit is its structure, that is to say , “Familiar-amateur” that does not allow him to reach more ambitious goals.

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And there will also be some truth in this but despite this Vanoli:

in 13 years it has built a youth sector as the basketball gods rule and which in these days is astounding the insiders and not only;

it has established itself in the “golden” national Baskettaro world as an example of far-sightedness, prudence and shrewdness, praised by the “power” but only and always in words which have never been followed by facts;

is one of the few clubs in the tormented and indebted national basketball world that regularly pays its athletes and collaborators every month, which athletes and collaborators who have passed here, all, absolutely everyone and net of their legitimate sporting ambitions, have all, but everyone, a beautiful memory of their passage;

was perhaps the only company to have (Aldo Vanoli was Guerino da Soncino docet) closed the budget in surplus and not have a debt rooster even looking for it with the lantern.

I could continue along these lines but it seems to me that the concept is already clear enough.

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These are the reasons why the heartfelt request arises from many sides, and also from that of your Ciranone Aldo Vanoli was Guerino da Soncino not to waste this happy and fruitful experience, but this is not what I want to talk about here and now.

I will limit myself only to saying that the president will make his decision shortly, and whatever it is, even the one that no one hopes for, this cannot change by an ounce the gratitude that is owed to him for having decided at the time to take in hand. the reins of the melonera and to have brought Cremonese basketball to levels never known before and which until about ten years ago were an unattainable chimera.

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Here and now, however, it is a question of carrying this year’s “ugly” Vanoli in procession which, put on the truck of this very troubled season, gradually crumbled, leaving its place, just like Don Camillo’s ugly Madonna, to the splendid and usual Vanoli silver.

The silver Vanoli of passion, prudence, concreteness, sagacity, perspicacity, and lucidity, all things that are not seen but that exist because “true beauty is not that of the face, true beauty is that which the eyes cannot see, which is inside and defies the ravages of time and does not become like the other land in the earth

Which is beautiful and instructive (cit.)

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