The group of Italian world champions of 2006 has returned to be topical with the arrival on the most demanding bench of Andrea Pirlo. The conductor of the Lippi orchestra takes the controls of the Vecchia Signora and joins the list of technicians that generation has given. If Pirlo has had a smooth path, others are flaring where they can, doing the military on less glamorous benches. Thus, the group of Amelia, Grosso, Materazzi, Oddo, Barone and Gilardino have been trying. Gattuso has proven himself in Switzerland, Greece and the Italian youth teams before returning to Naples. Cannavaro, meanwhile, is still well-off in China, while Pippo Inzaghi has just moved up with Benevento and Nesta is trying to do the same with Frosinone.
But there is a case that draws attention. It could not be otherwise because he was already a rare bird as a player, when he chose his adopted country, Italy, to be world champion with him to the detriment of Argentina, the land where he was born. It is Mauro Germán Camoranesi. A footballer that Pirlo will surely miss in the current Juventus squad and who has followed the rectitude of his character to make his way on the benches, regardless of the place. A full band player, with a tireless back and forth, quality and a lot of skill, Camoranesi ended his career in Argentina, his native country, but after that he got tired of waiting. This is how he related it in Clarín. “I spoke with all the representatives, but I am not interested in entering that soccer pandering circle to get an opportunity on a bench, I do not make relationships out of interest. In Argentina I have many friends, people who appreciate me and that I appreciate a lot, but I find it difficult to knock on doors to beg and lead. I think I have already made merits ”, explained the now technician openly after having already accepted and taken his first steps in the country where he found the solution.
Camoranesi wrapped the blanket over his head and before those words he had decided to accept an offer from the very modest Slovenian Tabor Sežana, where he is doing a more than remarkable job without any complex and with very little means. In fact, he has been the judge of the league, where in the last four days he beat Maribor and Olimpia de Ljubljana to give Celje the league title. Not to mention the fight for permanence. The Tabor has not seen with pressures, which is a great success, also playing good football despite the very low quality of its squad. But all this has mattered little to Camoranesi, a prisoner of his will and his decision, like that of 2006, when as world champion he did not want to abandon Vecchia Signora to wander alone in punishment for Serie B. He joined Del Piero, Buffon, Nedved, and Trezeguet to refloat the ship.