Lucarelli: Not As Cool As You’d Hope
By: Martha | April 26th, 2007
Since things between Livorno fans and Cristiano Lucarelli are a little hairy these days — what with the team being accused of throwing games, and Lucarelli announcing his impending departure from his hometown club and all — some of the supporters decided the best way to heal the rift would be to spend a little time with their idol. So, because he’s suspended for this weekend’s match against Palermo, they invited him to watch the game with them, from the Curva.
Which, you know, is AWESOME. And you’d think that, of all people, Lucarelli — the guy whose jersey number is work in tribute to a leftist Ultra organization, and who has loved the club and its fans all his life — would respond in the affirmative, and spend the evening as a supporter again, maybe for the last time. But, sadly, I guess he’s not as chill or as man-of-the-people as we’d hope, because on his website today, he turned down the offer. Doh! As usual, the translation is nearly impenetrable, but he says something about “medical” — could it be that he’s afraid of getting hurt?
Whatever the reason, it’s sad. The guy turned down millions to stay at the club and has always had a fantastic relationship with its supporters, and it would have been nice to have a farewell like that.
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Christian Gomez did this during his first season with DC United. It was an away match to the Metrostars, and he drove up to Giants Stadium, watched the game with the Barra Brava, while beating a drum and wearing an Argentina jersey. The other players on the team didn’t know about this before the game, and they were stunned when the noticed him in the stands after DCU scored a goal.
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Nope it says that he’d love to attend and thanks all his & the clubs’ fans but he doesn’t want to end up being exploited by the media. He’s afraid the situation could be manipulated.
He’s certainly not afraid of getting hurt! He used to go in the curva all the time, home and away, whenever he could.
There’s more going on here than meets the eye, of course, since it chiefly relates to internal squabbles between different Livornese ultras groups. I think Lucarelli is trying to avoid giving his sanction to one group over another which would be impossible to avoid if he went in Curva.
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Thanks, SP. What does “mediaticamente” mean? The only translation I can find is “medicine,” which makes no sense at all — is it part of a colloquialism, in the context of his statement?
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I dont really blame him. the way the fans are acting lately… well, nuff said.
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mediaticamente means through the media/via the media
you might be interested in this: http://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/05/football_lucare.php
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