The Silence Hurts Zamparini’s Ears, So He Fills It. Of Course He Does.
By: Martha | March 20th, 2007
Sigh. Clearly no one has yet taken our advice and applied some duct take to the mouth of Palermo boss Maurizio Zamparini, because he’s still talking. Or maybe they did, and he chewed through the gag.
Either way, he’s at it again, this time rehashing his winter break-era criticism of coach Francesco Guidolin — signed through 2009 — who he is once again vaguely threatening to dismiss. The funny thing is that this particular rant started out as an attack on the press who, according to Zamparini, “invent problems between myself and Guidolin.” The reality of the situation is that he loves the gaffer, despite his numerous flaws!
Just, um, don’t get him started on the flaws. First, there’s Guidolin’s tendency to “coach without enthusiasm at times.” Plus, he has bad “habits” that lead him to do “unthinkable” things like leaving David di Michele* and Mark Bresciano out of his team. Oh, and two years ago, he “always played … [Lamberto] Zauli — even when he was only available on one leg!” God that was annoying!
Uh huh. And what is this again? Evidence that the reported problems between Zamp and Guidolin are fabricated? Gotcha. Just so we’re clear.
Edit: Check out the comments for some more twists on Zamp’s statement — it seems there may have been some (willful?) mistranslation that makes him sound crazier than he actually was. On this occasion.
*Another sign of Zamparini’s insanity is that he doesn’t understand why Di Michele was left out. As far as I’m concerned, Guidolin deserves a medal for balling up and leaving that little shit’s ass on the bench. If you’re asking me.
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ignore C4 in this one. the bastards decided to twist his words around, majorly. the original interview is much, much more hypothetical. C4 left out a major part.
“Ogni tanto voi giornalisti vi inventate polemiche tra me e Guidolin. Invece non è cosi”, ha detto Zamparini.
“Il problema è che Guidolin non ha la stessa fortuna di Delio Rossi. Magari è anche un allenatore senza entusismo, ma non sono tutte le responsabilità per il calo del Palermo.”bascially, zampa compares guido to lazio coach rossi, and says he just wasn’t as lucky; their decline is not solely based on guidolin’s shoulders. but zampa has once again looked into his crystal ball, and forsaw the decline a few months ago, right after the loss against cagliari. and yeah, remember when he was saying palermo would not win the scudetto WAY back at the beginning? kinda creepy, yeah?
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Thanks, Rose. I think I saw all in various stories, but not all together — it does sound slightly less harsh that way. Slightly. (:
The thing about him crowing about predicting they wouldn’t win the title is pretty funny — yeah, saying what everyone was saying is really going out a limb there, Zamp.
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I like this translation, as it refers to him as Kick. And Delio Rossi as Red Delio. Good stuff. But clearly not very harsh.
“Every so often you journalists you invent yourselves controversial between me and Guidolin. Instead it is not things”, said Kick. “The problem is that Guidolin has not the same luck of Red Delio. Even if it is also an allenatore without entusismo, but is not all the responsibility for the fall of the Palermo.”
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Like Rose says, C4 are just trying to up the drama quotient. The original interview was at Stadionews. (I was going to link, but they’ve taken down the nice story where it was all on one page. Now it’s chopped up into several different stories in the archive. All of which helpfully start with “Zamparini:” should you want to dig them out.)
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Wordpie, Rose — also C4 translated the Di Michele comment strangely. At that point he was criticizing Guidolin’s playing the same guys all the time and it looks like he said “for him, it’s unthinkable to leave off Di Michele or Bresciano.” Sneaky, C4. Very sneaky. A medal for Zampa! Or you know…some negative crazy points which still leaves him pretty high in that department.
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Thanks for doing all this digging, guys, you’re awesome. So are we saying that … he’s not being a complete ass? This is sort of freaking me out.
(And didn’t Guidolin just leave out Di Michele? And Bresciano didn’t start on Sunday. So I’m confused by that part of the “what he really said” — it’s clearly thinkable, since he did it, at least in terms of the Aussie.)
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Yep, I think we’re saying that. :)
When was Di Michele left out? The only game I can think of that he hasn’t played since the holidays was the Atalanta game, and I’m pretty sure he was suspended for that one.
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Yeah, I’m sharing the confusion here. Di Michele’s started for the past few games (I think he was subbed out recently and he wasn’t available for Atalanta), but Bresciano? When he does start, Guidolin doesn’t have a problem subbing him out for Tedesco or whoever… You know, I really wouldn’t be surprised if he just picked a name off of the top of his head just so he could get on to his Next Great Point. Then again, I did add a comma that wasn’t there, so I could be C4ing all over the place, too Xo)
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alright, so guidolin almost always starts the same players; don’t fix what ain’t broken, seems to be his motto. you can always count to see di michele, simplicio, barzagli, zaccardo, fontana and pisano. and while he has no problems subbing them out when need be, zampa doesn’t seem to like the fact that guido never really changes his starting line, no matter how tired they boys are feeling. which i can understand is frusturating for both parts; zampa’s seeing his team rundown, and guido’s trying to make everything better.
against samp, di michele did start and was not subbed, while tedesco started in place of bresciano, which is really, really rare. basically, i agree with zampa that guidolin needs to vary more. SOME CIARA PLZ.
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