Dalla SERIE B allo SCUDETTO ||| La FAVOLA della SAMPDORIA

In collaboration with UC Sampdoria Written and produced by Giulio Incagli Gianluca Fraula Stefano Bagnasco 🔘 Subscribe 🔘    / @cronachedispogliatoio   🔥Twitch 🔥   / cronache_di_spogliatoio   ◻ Instagram ◻   / cronache_di_spogliatoio   ◼ Facebook ◼   / cronachedispogliatoio   💬 Twitter   / cronachetweet   ®Website https://www.cronachedispogliatoio.it/ 📱Download our APP https://www.cronachedispogliatoio.it/... #sampdoria #seriea #sampdoro #mancini #vialli #coppiadelgol #lanostrafavola La Superba, Francesco Petrarca was the first to call it that. For its elegant and majestic bearing, visible only to those observing it from the sea. Genoa is unique, jealous like no other of its riches, of the corners it keeps hidden from the inexperienced eyes of a foreigner. It is a shy city, a bit timid, and insanely proud. Perhaps more of its flaws than its strengths. And it is precisely this immoderate sense of belonging, this closed-mindedness even towards the power of Milan and Turin, that allowed it, 30 years ago, to become the setting for the last true fairytale of Italian football: Paolo Mantovani's Sampdoria. In Genoa, until 1946, in addition to Genoa, the club that had won nine league titles between 1898 and 1924, there were two other teams: Sampierdarenese and Andrea Doria. The former was registered in Serie A but was in dire financial straits, while the latter had been excluded from the top flight but had ample cash and had acquired top-tier players. At the end of the Second World War, in Sampierdarena, one of the poorest and most populous neighborhoods of the city, inside the historic Bar Roma, the members of Sampierdarenese met to decide whether or not to merge with Andrea Doria. In the first 40 years of its history, Sampdoria never managed to lift a single trophy, being relegated to Serie B on two occasions. The bottom came in 1978, when they achieved their worst result in history, finishing ninth in Serie B. "Genoa will never have a great team again." The words of Edmondo Costa, president of Sampdoria that season, must have echoed in Paolo Mantovani's head for days. Indeed, the years when Genoa dominated Italian football were now a distant memory, the level of Serie A had risen steadily, and the Blucerchiati executives thought it impossible to ever see Sampdoria among the greats. Well, they were very wrong. They couldn't have known it then, but there was a man with clear ideas and enormous dreams, ready to share them with an entire nation. There are men capable of changing the course of things. So brave as to question history and rewrite it as they please. Paolo Mantovani is one of them. Born in Rome, he moved to Genoa at 25 and never left. The journey that led him to become president of Sampdoria deserves a documentary of its own. A football fanatic and a Lazio fan, he joined Sampdoria as a press officer between 1973 and 1976, but soon realized the limitations and problems of a football club. He felt it was run too carelessly and with little professionalism. He decided to quit and invest his entire life in his entrepreneurial career. He quickly became a powerful and wealthy oil magnate, and when no one believed him, just months after Edmondo Costa's statement that had enraged Genoa, he bought Sampdoria in Serie B on July 3, 1979. The turning point in Doria's history.