The former Parma striker remembers the golden years: “We were a squad, Asprilla was the strongest and the craziest: he always smashed the car. Today I’m a city councilor, I train children and every now and then Apolloni calls me to go to mushrooms…”
In those days it was the Brazilians who came to play with us. “And instead I did the journey in reverse: funny, right?”. The beautiful thing about this old boy who is turning sixty is the wonder he brings with him, an enchantment for the things of the world and a natural aptitude for taking them lightly. When he played he looked like a very tall, lanky elf, with the hair of a rock star from the Lowlands, the movements of a panther, only apparently slow, a very gentle foot, never banal intuitions, a certain natural inclination to remove himself from the tangle of tackles and worries, because “I don’t never liked getting punched”, he laughs today. “From Brazil I remember the grass of the football fields. A long, thick, thick weed. You calculated a pass of ten meters and it stopped at seven, you tried a throw and sank your foot in a sea of grass: a very strange sensation” .
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