Silvio Baldini’s guest in connection with Sky Sport on Monday evening did not go as hoped: the celebration of Palermo’s promotion to Serie B has turned into something else, with moments of tension and embarrassment in the studio.
A Palermo the party continues, after the much desired promotion to Serie B arrived beating Padova at the end of the C playoffs: the rosanero returned to the cadeteria after 3 years – with the corporate bankruptcy and the rebirth in D in between – and now they enjoy it, dreaming of the arrival of the City Group emirs to open limitless horizons of glory. The company of the Sicilian team bears the signature first and foremost of the technician Silvio Baldiniwho last night was a guest in connection with Sky for what he intended to be a tribute to the man as well as to the coach.
A light-hearted chat, in the style of the conductor of ‘Calciomercato L’Originale’ Alessandro Bonanbut the interview slipped into topics that were anything but football, giving rise to a couple of back and forth that generated an atmosphere of tension, with the frost in the studio for some increasingly spicy answers by Baldini. The starting point of the speech was the ‘particularity’ of Palermo, to describe which the coach from Massa came up with the way to look at women on the street.
“They are those particular cities where you have to show respect and be respected, it is not an easy city where you can come and behave as if you were in Milan – attacked Baldini – I’ll give you an example to give you the idea, so you can understand: if you come here and you are a married person and you start looking at beautiful women, it is not that you are forbidden, but you will not be a person accepted by them. In their culture, the most respected thing has to be the family. If you go to Milan nobody cares if you look at a beautiful woman or if you are married or unmarried. Here it is different and I find myself in this culture, because as a child I grew up with my grandparents, who taught me that the main thing is that the family is sacred. There are rules, they must be respected“.
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Bonan replied trying to lighten, with a smile on his face: “Silvio, the ground is slippery, because family is sacred, but if we want to look at a beautiful woman, I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.“. But his words on the contrary hardened Baldini’s gaze, who started to counterattack in an aggressive mannerwhile the conductor tried to return to football topics: “You did not understand, if you look at a beautiful woman there is nothing wrong with that, if you are married and have a wife and children it is useless that you want to go and fuck that one, who may be a girl. They do well to cut your balls off. Because most people are 50-60 years old and go with a 20 year old girl“.
At this point the smiles stretched even in the studio have become serious faces and Bonan replied: “It is useless for you to be moral about others“. “I don’t come here to tell you bullshit, come, come and live here, then you realize it“said Baldini again.”I have lived in many parts, always in the same way“, was the reply of the Sky Sport host, who then tried in every way to let the tension settle and return to the usual tracks of lightness of the program. And yet afterwards there was a rather heated exchange, when Bonan tried to ask the transfer manager and the possible transfer of ownership of Palermo: “I don’t give a damn about football, it’s a world of hypocrites, frequented by characters who are only trying to earn money“. To which the study replied:”Silvio, it’s not all like that. If you think this way, why are you in football?“.
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The ending would have wanted to be in the name of downplaying, but the dedication made to Baldini of ‘Je so’ pazzo ‘by Pino Daniele, performed live in the studio – “you are a good fool“- made the technician react fiercely again: “Am I crazy or one who lives his way? I live differently from others, then if you consider me crazy I’ll send you to shit. You waste my time, I could be eating with the team and the president and I could spend more time with them and not you“. Bonan at that point tried to make people understand for the last time the desire not to take the transmission too seriously:”Madness is a wonderful form of normality, I say this with great sincerity. Then here we are playing with words“. “Now I recognize you“, Baldini conceded on the gong. Ah, incidentally, the two have known each other for a lifetime …
