De Biasi recalls historical European qualifications with Albania

The coach from Venice and former National coach Gianni De Baias confessed among the Italian clubs and national memories he approached but never did.

De Biasi, former midfielder, today coach, is waiting for a call on his next adventure: “Experience makes me feel strong, I can still give a lot. ”

Gianni De Biasi of Sarmede, Traviso

About San Martino di Colle Umberto, the birthplace of Ottavio Bottecha, the cyclist who won the Tour de France and who died in beatings, never understood why. Some say that he was beaten for taking a handful of grapes, others say something else. As a child, this story shocked me. I've been assistant to Venice in the '60s, who went to Mass, could play at church field”De Biasi says.

When he was a kid, he was a Juvenus fan, but then...

I left the day I first played against them, with Pescara. Juvenin were extremely antipathic. In the field, they lorded it all, with unaffordable snobism. From now on, sympathy for Juvenus has fallen. Today I only support the teams I train”He said former National coach.

Even Inter was a disappointment to you

I was a midfielder with promises, and they put me in a room with Sandro Mazzola, a myth. Mazzila kept the light on till late at night because he wrote his autobiography. Gianni, does the lamp bother you? How can he bother me? But it really ruined my sleep. The biggest disappointment I had was that I never made a debut in Serie A. I was about to get into the game in Page, but someone was injured and the coach, Chiappela, changed his mind, introduced Acanfora. Results: zero matches with First Inter team, only with youth”De Biasi says.

De Biasi, a midfield fighter

I was actually in midfield offensive at first. Brescia was the team where I played the most and where I had Gigi Simon as my coach. He called me his little horse, I'd be on fire for him. A master. I went to Brescia as part of the Beccalos deal. You can't take the ball. You had to hit him. I send him a big hug”Italian technician expresses himself.

De Biasi as coach

I started from the base in the deepest province. I've never had manager, I've twice rejected Gaa. I climbed the mountain without a helicopter. One who climbs in the pick, tastes the panoramma”He says.

In Brescia he trained Roberto Baggio

The last one for him. It was so easy to train him: People want to see Robbie Baggion, I told him, and point. She had her knees destroyed, causing her back problems. I used the scooter and held a flexible belt around my belly, the Neoren, against strong winds. One day I say, "Robby, try this generation." He took it, laid it, played it, stopped it, lost its back pain, and his body's position stabilized. I think, "Robby, he didn't give me that thing back! Don't worry, I'm kidding. Baggio was an inexorable champion driven by intense passion. I saw him suffer: Robbie, if you can't... I'll play”Tells De Biasi.

Turin, another beautiful chapter

“direction in Serie A since the first season, dismissal, return and rescue. Then again and again salvation. With the president, Urbano Cairo, we had misunderstandings, but they were resolved. He was very happy to invite me to his birthday and said from the scene: At my beginning in Turin, I did a crazy thing, I fired De Biasin. He said I'd be his Ferguson and somehow I was... with these”The coach from Venice said it.

Albania, chief of De Bias

“U qualified in the 2016 European, with victories in Portugal against CR7. I had friendship with Prime Minister Edi Rama, a fanatic juvent, but what's the point? Rama modernised Albania, led to the future. Today Tirana is a new and dynamic city. When Rama gave me the Cross of Skenderbe, the country's highest honour, he joked that he would remove my Italian passport if I signed for someone else... Rama gave me an Albanian diplomatic passport, which I go anywhere with and has solved some problems in difficult countries. When there's a line, I'll be right past”Shows De Biasi.

In 2016, before the Europeans, you were very close to Italy.

I was called by Michele Uva, then director general of the Italian Football Federation. Coach Kete had announced that after Europe he would go to Chelsea and I was at the top of the list to replace him. True, the president of the Albanian federation, Armando Duka, told me I couldn't leave at that moment, that if I went to France as a outgoing coach, I would damage Albania, but I believe there was another reason. I don't know. I'm left with a huge pendex, even a real anger”He said.

Have you been contacted to replace Spallette?

No, that's why I'm sorry. Today I feel like I'm thirty times better, I've learned a lot from the shocks I got. Experience gives you superior knowledge”Says Italian technician.

A desire outside football?

My daughter Chiara, oculist and ophthalmologist at Pordenone Hospital, got married in June and I hope she makes me a grandfather. I'm right age”It's over, former National coach. /tch