Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio.sampdoria
Titolo: Da rec.sport.soccer 1991...

Da:Stefano Carra (
SC...@NS.CC.LEHIGH.EDU
)
Oggetto:Sampdoria Campione !!!!
Newsgroups:rec.sport.soccer
Data:1991-05-20 23:47:20 PST
Here we go !!!!!!!
Beating Lecce 3-0 at home, Sampdoria deservedly wins the Italian
Championship for the very first time !!!! How sweet ... I thought I
would have died without feeling this joy !!! It is a very fair award
for the fans, the players, the president. Sampdoria is a young team:
founded in 1946, from the fusion of Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria,
for many years had to face the aristochratic "Genoa", and its 9
championships, winner of the first italian championship in 1898 (the
last one in 1924).
For several years Sampdoria had to struggle to avoid relegation: best
season in 1960: 4th position with Ockwirk, Cucchiaroni, Vincenzi and
Vicini (now coach of the national team). The catastrophe in '77:
relegation and then 4 long years in 2nd division, until the rich oilman
Paolo Mantovani buys the team and start building, brick by brick,
the wonderful toy. Back in 1st in 1982, with Ulivieri as a coach,
Bistazzoni (goalie), Scanziani, Chiorri (unforgettable "martian"),
"Mazinga" Guerini. Then Mancini, Francis and Liam Brady come along:
1982-83.. fantastic starting: 1-0 vs. Juventus, 2-1 in Milano with
Inter, 1-0 vs. Roma (that will win the championship later): in this
game Trevor Francis (unlucky great player) gets injured... we finish in
8th position. Two years later the first triumph: Coppa Italia. Finals
against Milan: 1-0 in Milano (Graham Souness !!) 2-1 in Genoa (Vialli,
new from Cremona, and, if the memory does not betray me, Mancini).
Bersellini the "Sergeant" was the coach that year. The following year
was without glory: out with Benfica in the Cups' Winners Cup in the 2nd
round and miserable Championship (12th position, more or less).
Mantovani gets impatient, surrenders to the stratopheric offer of
Silvio Berlusconi (10 millions!) and sells Vialli to Milan. Vialli says
no, explaining that he likes the sea (Genoa) better than the fog (Milano
and that he wants to win with Sampdoria and no other team. Many people
judged him as an immature kid, today we know he was right. Mantovani
regrets few minutes about the money (also because the italian federation
decides to rebuild the stadium of Genoa for the world cup; Sampdoria
had to play for four years in a stadium with half the seats, losing
lots of "lire") but than understands the value of Vialli's choice. In
that season Sampdoria loses also the final of Coppa Italia,from Roma.
Cerezo scores for Roma; few days he will transfer to Sampdoria, and he
will become a flag of the team. In the same years also the slavonic
coach Vujadin Boskov lands in Genoa. The following year Sampdoria loses
a tie-break for a UEFA spot with Milan, but in '88 the second Coppa
Italia comes (2-0 and 1-2 with Torino). In 89 Sampdoria rides in Europe
until the final in Berna with Barcelona: six of the best players are
out, injured, and the loss in unavoidable, 0-2, but also Crujiff admits
that in normal condition the game would have been different. Some fans
feel that the dream is over, but few days later trashes Napoli in the
Coppa Italia final 4-0 (Cerezo, Viechowood, Vialli, Mancini). The fans
tremble again that summer. The sports newspaper "la Gazzetta dello
Sport" (sometime less reliable than the National Enquirer) reports that
Vialli, Mancini, Vierchowood and Pellegrini have been sold to Juventus!
That was a gigantic bullshit, but those were also my worst days as a
fan: I didn't buy "la Gazzetta" for many many months after that!
Sampdoria back in europe destroys Brann Bergen, Borussia Dormundt,
Grasshoppers, Monaco and finally Anderlecht, in an unforgettable night
in Malmoe: 2-0 (Vialli, Vialli) for the first European cup! This years
has been a long dream: nobody really believed in Sampdoria, but the
journalists formally put Sampdoria in the group of favourites for the
championship, with Milan, Juve, Napoli and Inter. Everybody knows what
happened: Samp trashed everybody losing only one point from Juventus!
Grazie Mancio! Grazie Gianluca! Grazie Pietro! Grazie Beppe! Grazie
Toninho! and all the others! A life time dream has come true!
Too bad I'm so far from home. But I'm buying beer to my american
friends for two weeks. The condition is that they have to day " To
Sampdoria!" everytime they pop the can.
                                 Ciao     Stefano
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Salvatore M.
webmaster 
www.sampdoria.tk


    grandissimo stefano... il leggerlo poi dall'inglese mi ha dato quel non
so che di famoso  ^__^
    la storia del "rich oilman" mi sembra anche abbastanza recente  :-])  e
quella di vialli al milan mi ha fatto sorridere ancora una volta  :-)

> Oggetto:Sampdoria Campione !!!!
SCUDETTOOOO !!!!
Grande Samp

 would have died without feeling this joy !!!
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Complimenti kink, gran bell'articolo :-)
frank
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