VIALLI

The English football at an Italian's feet. A possible undertaken, since numbers. More difficult if from statistics we pass to admit that the Britain inferiority complex toward our soccer is still alive. In the United Kingdom the football masters has built their fame of invincibility thanks to ten years of bad temper all over Europe. Since the beginning of the eighties, when our championship has opened frontiers, football Italy has become the most aspired target by all outsiders. Unavoidably it has risen both quality and quantity (read: singing up) in the field results. Since more than twenty years the azure sporting companies have hoarded continental trophies, giving England crumbs of grandeur. Unavoidable the same, models and roles have turned upside down. The conservative matrix, the isolationism of Her Majesty's subjects due to the conviction of being nevertheless the best has faced the evidence of numbers. Little by little it has taken place the idea to copy the Italian situation. Along the lines of our peninsula sponsors and televisions they have allowed the economical take-off of a company structure, more managerial, and overall more oriented to accept the arrive even massive of foreign talents. The beyond the Channel soccer suddenly had awakened from their own torpor and stale schemes; to keep the pace with the best they must open frontiers and pay pretty pennies. But which direction, since the cream of world football was still in our first division. Old methods added to the will to update have brought then to the "rape", to sack the most beautiful championship all over the world, to a sophisticated football world, with graduated athletic trainers deeming football as a scientific discipline. In few words, on a side, art, on the other a simply game with the conviction that grit and physical features could fill all gaps. Among companies that must plant a completely new mentality and methodology there's the Chelsea, a London eleven, button hole of a London specially well off district. One of the first hits of the "Blues" three years ago was the signing up of Gianluca Vialli, by then flag of the Italian football, playing at the Juventus with which had just conquered the shield and the Champions League. The white-black forward arrive, along with the ex-Lazio Di Matteo and Gianfranco Zola surely brought an important azure wave into the Premiership.