Luke Shaw and Rick Karsdorp during the Europa League semi-final first leg between Manchester United and Roma, which ended 6-2 for the “Red Devils”
The ease with which the Manchester United reassembled the Roma, inflicting a 6-2 tennis on her, really makes you think. Even more so when recalling the famous 7-1 of 2007. If such a tumble can happen once in a lifetime, perhaps the second is the indication of something deeper, especially so many years later. The “Red Devils” were part of the 12 founders of Superlega, Roma no, but also the team from the Capital could have considered the project, if it hadn’t quickly been involved in a Superfiguraccia.
But would the Italian teams really have the title to stay in the Gotha of European football?
Let’s do the math: theEuropa League it has never been won by our clubs, ever since it took on this denomination in 2009. And everything suggests that it won’t happen this year either.
When he called Uefa Cup, the Italian teams dominated you, but we are talking about the period between the 80s and 90s. The latest success dates back to 1999, when the Parma defeated the Marseille: prehistory.
In Champions League the last success dates back to 2010 with theInter of the Triplete, but in the last decade there have been only disappointments. There Juventus, which has literally dominated the national scene with nine league titles in a row (plus 5 Super Cups and 4 Italian Cups) in the last three years has gone out against teams not even considered by the Super League project: Ajax, Lione e Porto. Inter e Milan they stayed a long way from the limelight. The Nerazzurri’s last European sharp was the Europa League final they lost to last year Seville.
On the other hand, just watch the spectacular Champions semi-finals on TV, but also the stratospheric quarter-final between Bavaria Monaco e PSG to realize how much these super teams really live in another planet than ours, with formidable champions who make breathtaking plays at twice the speed of ours too celebrated vippetti of the balloon.
Beyond the two finals clearly lost by Juve at the time of Merry, the strongest emotions in the Champions League gave us theAtalanta, which last year made life very hard for the multimillionaires of PSG, giving in only on the wire.
May fate keep us this authentic football miracle for as long as possible, without heeding those who cite the Bergamo players as an example of a team that, for purely economic reasons, would not be worthy of treading the European stage. The Superlega is one thing, which will probably sooner or later, but there is quite another pride, according to which it is money that guarantees your participation and not the results in the field. Let’s try to focus on those instead, because there is a lot of ground to recover.