Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio.fiorentina
Titolo: The Wonder

Dal Guardian.....
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/10/30/mutu_rides_his_luck_to_complet.html
Mutu rides his luck to complete a Florentine renaissance
Adrian Mutu has put his playboy collapse behind him, finding a new
maturity in Italy and becoming the very heart of Romania's team.
Jonathan WilsonOctober 30, 2007 3:52 PM
When Adrian Mutu was banned from football for seven months in November
2004 after testing positive for cocaine use, there were many who
thought his career was over. His contrition was immediate and he vowed
to return "a stronger player all round at the highest possible level",
but the general response was sceptical. Yet three years on Mutu is the
heartbeat of a Romania side that has qualified for the European
Championship, and has scored six goals in eight league games as
Fiorentina have started the season brightly. Sport revels in its tales
of redemption, but Mutu's is more remarkable than most.
It was the failed drug test that brought matters to a head, but Mutu's
life was chaotic enough even before his ban. His two-year marriage to
the Romanian television presenter Alexandra Dima had ended in
acrimony, and when she was awarded custody of their son, Mario, he was
left facing lengthy trips back to Bucharest to see him. He filled the
void in the way that most 25-year-old footballers would, with a self-
destructive social life that led ultimately to fall-outs with both
Claudio Ranieri and Jose Mourinho.
Mutu's was the very model of the playboy collapse. He was involved in
a car chase with Romanian police that led to a driving ban. He became
embroiled in a well-documented liaison with a porn star during which,
it was subsequently reported, he drank her blood. He even claimed at
one point that he only took the cocaine to boost his performance after
she had expressed disappointment. A Bucharest psychologist, stating
the obvious, pronounced solemnly that Mutu had "serious maturity and
personality issues".
When Juventus picked him up after he'd been sacked by Chelsea, it was
portrayed as opportunism, but it was also a significant gamble. From a
football point of view the move was at most a qualified success, with
many of his handful of appearances coming in midfield. He was
offloaded to Fiorentina at the end of the season. Crucially, though,
it gave him a foothold back in the game.
It was in Florence, appropriately enough, that his renaissance began.
For one thing, he found in Cesare Prandelli a coach with whom he
formed an immediate bond. Mutu has spoken often of his affection for a
man who has become his mentor. "He is like a second father for me,"
Mutu said. "He knows me so well I have no secrets from him. He's not
just a great coach but a great person. I'm lucky to work with someone
like him."
Mutu, though is reflective enough also to acknowledge the debt he owes
to Fabio Capello, the coach who was prepared to offer him a second
chance. "I am very happy with Fiorentina," he said, "but I cannot
forget that Capello and Juventus came through for me when nobody else
wanted to know. Juventus made a crazy bet and I think that they won. I
definitely won, because Capello believed in me and knew how to use me.
I was shocked at first to play in midfield, but then I understood that
I had to give everything to prove to him that I was the right man for
his plans."
Mutu's private life too has settled since he met the Dominican model
Consuelo Matos. They married in July 2005, and in June last year they
had a daughter, Adriana. Consuelo is pregnant again. "It is great that
God helped us to get to know each other," Mutu said. "We are in love
and very happy together. It is hard for me to be away from her and my
little daughter for too long. It is great that soon we will have
another child. I hope he is a boy so I can teach him football."
At the moment, Mutu insists that he would be teaching him in Florence.
The magazine Guerin Sportivo has claimed that both Barcelona and Real
Madrid made bids for the forward in the summer, but that Mutu turned
them down. "Florence is home for me," he said. "People here love me
and I have forgotten about the cocaine and my sad time in London.
"Recently my agent Alessandro Moggi presented me with some offers from
Premiership clubs, but without meaning any offence, I would not go
back to London if they paid me a fortune in gold. I've got nothing
against English people - they are very nice and they are crazy for
football - and the Premier League is clearly a great competition, but
nowhere is as good as Florence for me."
That he is a stronger all-round player now can hardly be in doubt, and
with Fiorentina third in Serie A and Romania qualified for Euro 2008,
he is close to fulfilling the second part of the promise he made in
the wilderness three years ago. "I am very confident that I will show
great things with Romania in the summer," he said. "My greatest
happiness was to qualify for the Euros and to show that our generation
can make the Romanian people proud like in the old days of Hagi.
Football has given me a lot. I am the luckiest man in the world."

 work with someone like him.
non riesco ad immaginarmi come faremo, quando un giorno
lontano se ne andra'

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Probabilmente faremo come abbiamo gia' fatto per Antognoni, Baggio, Dunga,
Batistuta, Rui Costa, ecc.

 Batistuta, Rui Costa, ecc.
Credo si riferisse a Prandelli e non a Mutu.
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Ciao a tutti
Gringoargentino
"Corri alla bandierina
campione della Fiorentina"

 Credo si riferisse a Prandelli e non a Mutu.
Si scusate, me ne sono accorto troppo tardi... :(

 Si scusate, me ne sono accorto troppo tardi... :(
Tranquillo. Capita.
:-)
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Credo si riferisse a Prandelli e non a Mutu.
Allora faremo come quando se ne sono andati Giorgi, Agroppi, Mancini
ecc. ecc. ecc.  :-)))
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Valter Polo