Roma-Udinese 3-0. Athletic Club de Bilbao. The Tiber is not afraid of its tributaries.

The mental closure of Soloukou, who did not understand what DDR means for Roma, put us in a seemingly dead-end labyrinth, but Juric's professional leadership, with more than 200 benches, made our Roma tactically command the game and guided us like Ariadne's thread to a beautiful victory. We need unity as Paulo Dybala said. We need to be mentally open to the whole world in politics and economics.

We were in a situation of catastrophic chaos. DDR had been fired. CEO Soloukou had resigned. The fans of the Sud who entered the Curva half an hour later in protest with the owners and the team. During the match, Cristante and Pellegrini, considered the protagonists of a supposed mutiny against DDR, were booed. Everything suggested the worst.

5a Day Serie A	First Half	Second Half	Final Score
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The team instead reacted well. Well led by a serious professional like Ivan Juric. He commanded the match. He scored with Dovbyk, Dybala from a penalty and Baldanzi, who came on in the second half. Pisilli and ElSha also did well. The defensive phase was good and kept the goal intact. Cristante and Pellegrini showed a lot of personality in front of the whistles. In addition to the aspect of the chaos of Roma and the consequent protest, in addition to the beautiful fact of the victory, there is also the even more beautiful fact of the friendship between the Romanists (in particular the Fedayn) and the Udinese ultras.

The ideal opening that I will support at a political level in a few lines must also concern the Roma fans, to whom I ask for greater trust in the club and the team. Paulo Dybala asked for unity from the entire Roma world, after the match. The Curva Sud and the Olimpico are necessary for Roma's success. Then, from what I understand, there will still be protests but NOI SIAMO LA ROMAWe don’t even have to fear one of the strongest clubs in the Europa League like Athletic Club de Bilbao.

If the animal symbol of Udinese is the eagle of Friuli, which derives from that of the Habsburgs, our next opponents, Athletic Bilbao, are called the lions because St. Mames, the saint who gives his name to the neighborhood where Athletic's stadium is located, tamed the lions in the arena precisely in the period so dear to us of the Roman Empire.

When Lizarazu, the great full-back of the French national team, arrived at Athletic Bilbao there was a lot of uproar in the Basque Country. He was French. But he was Basque. So the rule was observed that only Basque players play at Athletic Bilbao. But the history of the Basque Country has always been this. The strength of their traditions, up to the aspirations of independence from Spain, does not fear contamination or crossover. And today the best player of Bilbao is Nico Williams, who is Basque, but he is black. If you know your origins, you are not afraid of mixing.

The Basque Country is not afraid of mixing because it has strong roots like the Roman Empire. Like Ivan Juric he has strong ideas in which he firmly believes and for this reason he leaves poetic license to Paulo and other players with great technical quality. The security in one's own ideas, in one's own values ​​as Europe should be allows the opening towards the rest of the world.

An open world is the only viable path for large states like China and Europe. Both essential to each other. Draghi asked that Europe be strong. Able not to be dependent on the outside. Then at such large levels, it is normal to deal with countries that have monopolies. This is why we need to think of something different: to be as necessary to the other as they are to us.

On a political, ideal, but also geographical level, Europe is the natural bridge between China and the USA. It is necessary to make China dependent on us as we in some fields must be forced to depend on China. China is necessary for Europe for batteries, where there is a Chinese monopoly on raw materials and production and in the same way Europe is necessary for China for know-how in the automotive sector, for design, because it has many factories that produce cars that run on fossil fuels and are easily convertible to electric cars.

Climate change vs. delay of European electric cars. The topic of these days is the crisis of the European automotive sector that is having great difficulty in updating to the electrical system. China has a great advantage, but then, if the reason is climate change, it is necessary for the Great Dragon to develop other types of energy supply, other than coal. Also because the effects of climate change are not predictions of a distant future, but are current throughout the world. This is why Trump's antiquated climate policies are no longer possible.

Trump as president of the USA, what would it mean? Perhaps the worst damage that Donald Trump could do to the world is his closure policy. First of all for the USA itself. Putting tariffs on foreign products means increasing many products that have entered the lives of Americans on a daily basis. This would lead to a mirror policy by other macro-regions. Even American products that need foreign components would increase a lot. Therefore, the markets would also suffer, bringing inflation and recession: in three words, a global economic crisis.

If Donald Trump wants to be President of the USA, he must be presidential like Kamala Harris already does. That is why Harris won the televised debate on ABC. Not so much for the moderators’ fact-checking of Donald’s obvious hoaxes, but because she gave the impression of a politician who offers opportunities, not fear, and the USA is primarily the land of optimism, of the positivity of opportunity.

It is dangerous for the world if the US has a president who moves dictated by fear like the fear he tries to instill in his people, falsely accusing immigrants, while winking at Putin, at dictatorships in the world, poorly concealing his true intentions, namely a dictatorship in the temple of democracy that is the US. How can it be interpreted otherwise when he says to the MAGA: You will no longer need to vote?

The courage to open up was also what the Roman Empire identified with, which is why it lasted about 500 years (which is a lot and not a few) and which in some way survives even today. It was the expansion of Roman citizenship ever further to the borders. It was the barbarian generals like Aetius and Stilicho. It was the openness to other religions, to all cultures, that made Rome great. The Tiber has never been afraid of its tributaries. We will play against a great Spanish football team, a team that is still very strong, but we represent Rome: we cannot fear Athletic Bilbao.

Valverde fields Bilbao with 4231 which in the defensive phase becomes 442 with Sancet at the same level as Guruzeta. Here Bilbao with the classic red and white striped shirt in the match lost against their godchildren Atletico Madrid (0-1).

It becomes 424 in the pressing phase with Williams on the full-backs and Herrera and Prados (Ruiz de Gallareta can play in place of one of the two) on the opposing midfielders. In the construction phase they can build with both midfielders with a 24 formation.

In the offensive phase, Sancet can play as a central attacking midfielder to help with possession and look for a poisoned through ball for Guruzeta or roam mostly on their right to communicate with Inaki Williams. The full-backs remain fairly blocked behind (except Gorosabel).

The best player is Nico Williams, fast and with a confusing dribble, especially when, from the left side, he goes towards the center to shoot with his right foot, often with his deadly curling shot. His brother Inaki Williams is also strong and can also vary on the left side, good with both feet, his best weapon is the low assist, simple and intelligent (2 assists against Las Palmas, one for Sancet, with a dribbling pass from Guruzeta, and one for Nico Williams, both low), while against Leganes he scored.

They defend principally man by man on the corners.

We are especially careful about the Williams brothers, always ready to launch a counterattack.

The openness to all religions and cultures of the Roman Empire also belongs to the Basque Country and is a lesson for the world in politics and economics. The path indicated by Juric against Udinese is the right one and, even if there will be protests, the strength of his ideas together with the strength of the idea of ​​Rome could prevail even against the Basque lions, one of the most difficult opponents that awaits us in this initial phase of the Europa League together with Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi