Hellas Verona

The Verona area, like all of Veneto, has always been an area closely linked to the Catholic religion and the Christian Democrats (at least until the 1990s). It is an area of excellent wines and great alcoholics. Then, unfortunately, this area became Northern League due to the decay of the old parties, considered too corrupt (as if many Northern League supporters were not convicted of corruption), due to an ancient parochialism that tends to discriminate against the south of Italy and because the Italy and Veneto in particular have had to face a new phenomenon, such as immigration from Africa.

As nature takes its spaces, so history, as De Gregori says, enters through the windows. And so despite the fact that Africans are often kept in hiding, to be blackmailed, in the end they have created a sufficient income, they have found a partner and now there are many second generation Italian-Africans. The Kinder Surprise situation is being created (black outside and white inside). This definition of naive racism coined by some of my friends at 100cells for a friend of Ethiopian origin goes in the right direction, towards integration.

Unfortunately, racism remains as it has happened to Voghera fomented by manifestly racist parties such as the Brothers of Italy and the League. This racism can provoke uncomfortable reactions from Italian-Africans, even of the new generation, as has happened with Islamic terrorism in other European countries. Mind you, I'm talking about future events. I do not intend to justify either racism or second generation Islamic terrorism. I do not intend to make a declaration of intent. It is just a matter of reading the data. Of my personal experience often in contact with Afro-Italians and Asio-Italians. The future in general will go towards integration.

Just look at the willing attitude of younger white Italians often in contact with Italians of different colors, formally foreigners or even stateless. These speak Italian. They often speak the dialect. Why not give him Italian documents? Why continue to deny their intimate nature as Italians? For this reason, for the right of Italians, born in Italy, who attend schools in Italy and often only know Italian, the ius soli has become necessary.

In the first 3 league games, Hellas always lost, so the management decided to replace Di Francesco with Tudor. In reality, Hellas hadn't played badly and lost narrowly to Sassuolo and Bologna and 3-1 to Inter after taking the lead. It seems to me too severe a punishment for the Abruzzo coach. Tudor is an excellent coach. In general, the tactics will still be very difranceschian, maybe with more attention to defense.

Di Francesco fielded 3421 in general balanced but leaning towards attack with an often horizontal ball possession to consolidate dominance (probably Tudor will ask for more attention in defense and look for a counterattack). Plan A is to build ball on the ground. At this stage, Tameze is very good. Veloso (left) will probably play and will be the reference point for the construction. Against pressure, they are not perfect, but then they are good at relaunching the action on second balls even with dangerous counter-attacks, especially with Caprari and Simeone. Veloso is also very good with free kicks for crosses and shooting. They have a lot of good headers for free kick crosses.

Barak is left and less winger than Caprari, who, starting from the left, can go towards the center to shoot with the right.

Simeone is an atypical central striker, good at entering the offside line and very fast. They seek possession, spinning the ball left to right and right to left with short passes. On their right, Faraoni and Barak (left) are very good at crosses. On their left, the crosses start from Lazovic or Caprari. On crosses, we have to be careful of Simeone who is not very tall, but has a great elevation and the other winger who may be ready to receive the cross from the other side [if he crosses Faraoni, we have to be careful of Lazovic (and Caprari) , if he crosses Lazovic, we must be careful of Faraoni].

On corner kicks, they defend by zone with Tameze on man (probably on Mancini).

Although the yellow and blue mastiffs are at the bottom of the table, they have a good team with excellent individualities. We must treat them with respect to defeat them. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi