A Season With Verona

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Under the leadership of coach Osvaldo Bagnoli, in 1982–83 the team secured a fourth-place in Serie A (its highest finish at the time) and even led the Serie A standings for a few weeks.

A Season With Verona by Tim Parks | Waterstones

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on-the-pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power). We were a little short on these this season, so thank you to Mattia Destro for making sure we did not go without. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He later took over as vice-president at Genoa, helping them to secure promotion to Serie A with a young coach named Gian Piero Gasperini.I had the same affinity with the Sampdoria supporters, but could never really manage it at Juventus. His lucid accounts of entire matches capture the drama, euphoria, sights, sounds and smells of the Curva, the injustice of the game, the anger, the hatred, the torture and the infantile stupidity of it all, while his pithy observations (“The fan thirsts for injustice”) are disarmingly accurate. On 18 May 2013, Verona finished second in Serie B and were promoted to Serie A after an eleven-year absence. In 1988, the team had their best international result when they reached the UEFA Cup quarterfinals with four victories and three draws. A new owner acquired the club in late 2007, appointing Giovanni Galli in December as new director of football and Maurizio Sarri as new head coach.

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This is a highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country, its people and its national sport. Feelings of pride in performance crashed up against the overwhelming emptiness of knowing that, for many players and coaches, such opportunities come but once in a career.That number seemed to come from nowhere, after the prosecutor leading the case against them had asked for nine. In this “ Paese dei mille campanili” (a reference to Italy’s renowned parochialism), Fontana acknowledges that A Season with Verona had a greater impact abroad than it did in Italy.

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The 1984–85 season was the only season when referees were assigned to matches by way of a random draw. Parks also describes the way in which the city of Verona is viewed by other parts of the country, with particular emphasis on the reputation of the football club and the city of Verona for xenophobia.This unusual final table of the Serie A (with the most successful Italian teams of the time, Juventus and Roma, ending up much lower than expected) has led to many speculations.