Lele Mora, Moggi’s agent, is a Milan-based impressario specialising in reality show and soft porn stars (the two sometimes overlapping (in every possible sense of the term)), who essentially made the career of Fabrizio Corona, the paparazzo at the centre of that scandal. Mora would feed photo ops for his clients to Corona, would also provide tips on other “celebrities” for him, and would help him in the blackmail negotiations. Corona eventually began to work on his own (especially after he became close to, and then married a well-known Croatian model), but he remained close to Mora (who rather resembles Luciano Gaucci, the guy who drove Perugia into bankruptcy and is now living as a fugitive from Italian justice in the Dominican Republic).

It will not shock you to know that Coco is well known to both Mora and Corona (who actually went to jail for a while, which gave rise to a short-lived rap song and gave him enough material to write a “true crime” insta-book). Mora is also close to Flavio Briatore, the quintessential Italian playboy who is head of Renault’s Formula One team and now principal owner of Queens Park Rangers (Coco is also a long time friend of Flav’s).

As I said, a very small country in many ways.

Marco is spot on with his summary (Abantantuono also did an Interista sequel to the Milanista Eccezzziunale Veramente a few years ago that didn’t achieve the success of the original).

Corriere reports this morning that Moggi was supposed to be in Allenatore 2, delivering a cameo as the chief of a railway station (his original job in real life). That idea fell apart because Moggi’s agent wanted a more prominent role. And it just so happens that Moggi’s agent is none other than Lele Mora, the larger than life (literally and figuratively) eminence grise behind the paparazzo Fabrizio Corona, who was at the centre of last year’s blackmail scandal whose “victims” allegedly included Totti, Milan and Inter.

It really is a very small country in many ways.

By the way Martha, that whole Buffon-Del Piero-Totti courtroom scenes rotates around Canà (the coach character) being put on trial, and sentenced to a “penalty box – jail cell” (it’s funnier in Italian). Totti’s the public defender for Canà, who (expectedly) “asks the clemency of the court”. At which point Canà bursts out: “What? But aren’t you my defender?”. And Totti: “Canà, don’t you get it yet? I’m a striker, not a defender”.

I assure you, it is funnier in Italian (although not by a huge amount) :P

This one should be even better, as Cana returns to coaching in the modern era.

I’m just hoping there’s a line in the film, something to the effect Lippi- “I eat becuase i’m unhappy, and i’m unhappy because I eat”. hahahah