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PRANDELLI, FANNA AND CAMMARATA, A NASTY JOKE TO JUVENTUS FROM ITS FORMER PLAYERS   What could be the celebration day turned instead into a nightmare that risks of having a really astonishing conclusion. Historically, Verona is a team destined to play nasty tricks to the most prestigious teams. In particular, Milan lost twice in the Verona stadium, thus losing two titles it already believed to have won. Juventus, currently the championship leader, which on one hand despised historical recurrences and on the other relied on the fear provincial teams usually have when competing against the strongest teams, has therefore complicated things, risking to jeopardize its run towards the title. After beginning the championship in a disastrous way, Verona has managed to recover and now is in a good position in the ranking, risking no longer relegation. This fact, too, represented a basic advantage for Juventus. Yet, what made Verona play in such frantic way, a team already safe from relegation and that, what's more, is trained by two former Juventus players who in the past enjoyed great satisfaction with Juventus? This is probably the question Carlo Ancelotti, Juventus' trainer, must have asked to himself. And his team, too, dominated by Verona and the first spring heat at the Bentegodi stadium, must have thought the same thing. Yet, maybe not even Prandelli and Fanna, the two Verona trainers, had considered Cammarata, the forward who had a score to settle with Juventus. In fact, Fabrizio is one of the many boys who grew up with Juventus with the hope to wear the mythical shirt one day. Yet, as it often happens, Cammarata had to travel all around Italy to gain experience, in the hope to come back to Juventus, sooner or later. Thus he first played with Verona, then with Pescara and even with Torino: he was never still, never managing to reach success, but above all Juventus managers never called him.  And then here is his personal revenge: the day when Juventus could have won its 26th title, his two goals are maybe the only trick he could make to his former team. No warning or resentful words were said on the eve of the match: Fabrizio has learnt at his expense, growing up, that with football the only rule that applies is that of the field. And it was right here that he had the satisfaction of taking his revenge on Juventus for not having had the possibility of playing with this team. For Prandelli, too, the victory over the team that took him to win several Cups and Italian titles may be seen as revenge. Last year, in the confusion following Lippi's retirement, his old teammate Roberto Bettega, now a Juventus manager, had even thought of him as Lippi's successor. In the end Juventus chose Ancelotti, and this choice and the reasons for it did not certainly leave the Verona trainer satisfied. Prandelli did not consider the fact of not having too much experience and not having been a landmark in the history of Italian football as valid justifications for his exclusion. Therefore, the fact that his former team did not want to bet on his qualities for the future (and also on the qualities of his assistant, Pietro Fanna, who would have followed him) must have left some grudges. And thus, after having won several titles, Cesare and Pierino maybe enjoyed a lot in organizing the match that could cost Juventus the title. In fact, now there are still two matches to play with only two points between Juventus and Lazio; also, the Roman team could further benefit from the next matches. We will see if this time Verona only represented a great fright for Juventus or if it is once again fatal as it was in the past.   Paolo Ghisoni

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