“Maradona is the only one who has always remained outside the system, saying no to Juventus as well as Blatter, without ever sitting at those tables. He remains an icon. Sarri had the same popularity in Naples as Diego for a while. But in the end, after advocating 'the attack on the palace', he went to work in that palace”. This is how Massimiliano Gallo, actor and film author, explains his bitterness on the day Sarri was made official at Juventus. In the last year, Gallo has made a documentary “Maurizio, Sarrism – A wonderful anomaly”, which was presented a few days ago at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna and which could now be modified, after also risking being withdrawn. “We thought – confirms Gallo – of withdrawing it and after the screening in Bologna we are still deciding whether to place it and how. The gut choice would be to lock it in a drawer. But our heads tell us that it is a beautiful story that we worked on for a year. It will need to be revised and re-edited, but the story should not be erased. We will reflect and then we will understand where to project it, even in Naples". Gallo focuses above all on the message that comes from the story and on the creation of the myth of "Sarrismo", a term even included in the Treccani encyclopedia. "It is not a nice message that we give to young people - he explains - because it is like telling kids that nothing is worth anything, justifying it with professional choices. Lately people say that icons are dangerous, but I want to believe in icons and if it is no longer possible to do so in Calcium I will distance myself from following him, because knowing that they are only professionals who play and coach takes away the passion”. The actor underlines that “The Neapolitans – says Gallo – did not project the image of Sarri as Che Guevara on their own”, as a commander. For three years he was the one to give a precise image, as a skilled communicator, he spoke of an “attack on the palace” of having to have “striped shirts” to have penalties. Lippi also coached in Naples and then went to Juve but here he is still very much loved, because he has always maintained a neutral, professional attitude, if you have an idea of professionalism then it is better not to make statements of that kind in a hot place like Naples, where I think Sarri will not be welcome now. I also know that many Juventus fans do not appreciate his arrival and to those of them who are writing to me on social media I say that these are not words against the Bianconeri, but about the myth built by Sarri and then demolished by himself”.
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