Twenty -two minute. The San Paolo is all standing and applauds with conviction. One to zero, unlocked game. Particularly negligible at all: the goals did the guests. How is it possible, then, that deluge of hands that they scrangle and “good!” who come out of the lips? Napoli is below. Fiorentina in advantage. Are they seriously congratulating an opponent? The answer is yes, if that opponent is called Roberto Baggio.
Fifth day of the 1989/90 championship. That championship: Bigon’s blues at the end of the season they will win the Scudettodragged by the sixteen goals of a Martian who arrived to make smiling and dominated. But that day Diego Armando Maradona starts from the bench. At the stadium there are 51 thousand spectators. However, a pile of talents float in the field. The omnipresent Ciro Ferrara, Alemao, Careca and Carnival, on the one hand, are those who spark more. But it is not that on the other side then you joke a lot. Pioli, Dunga and Roberto Baggio are among the leaders of a viola that intends to battle.
And he succeeds immediately, taking his opponents abruptly. At the end of the first half Fiorentina will be the lead of two goals to zero, only to be taken up again in the second. The goals for the guests both score the Divin Codino. The second is a penalty kick, made with glacial concentration. The first, a fresco that Baggio still considers to be his most beautiful network.
Twenty -two minute, it was said. Napoli is attacking to try to unlock it, but the lily defense contracts and rejects. Ball exit on Roberto, who meets a lot. He even goes to take a handful of meters from his penalty area. Then he turns and accelerates. And here there is a comfortable, because the piece of magic begins. Baggio has a companion who widens to the right and one who opens to the left, but proceeds straight for straight. Alessandro Renica meets himwho widens the left leg to hook the ball, but Roby hides and jumps it.
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Oh well, now it will pass it, they say they are in the stands. Not the whole field can make everyone dribble. Spoiler: Don’t pass it. Dribbles everyone. When Napoli realizes that it is practically entering the area it is already too late. Two defenders try to close it, but the attempt is in vain. One throws himself in slip: Baggio avoids him by changing the cadence of his movement, simply by moving to the left. The other is too far to be able to close it.
The goalkeeper Giuliano Giuliani then comes out of the poststo try to cover as much mirror as possible. Nothing to do. Giuliani remains standing until he can, but Roby makes him sit with a fake and, when he gets up, he has already pushed a goal of a stratospheric beauty into a goal. A goal at Maradona: ball to me, dribble everyone and sign. In fact, El Pibe de Oro also gets up from the bench and starts to refine. As well as many of the other opponents and, in fact, the fans in the stands. It is one of those moments of rare beauty that only samples can disclose. People feel grateful for assisting. Poetry in motion. It does not happen every day.
The game will then win Napoli, it was said. Maradona enters the first of the second half and an own goal by Pioli, together with the networks of Careca and Corradini, will condemn Viola to defeat. At the final whistle, however, the applause for Roberto continue, who thanks, moved. Maradona also joins the choir, which during the post -race interviews publicly wealed The praise of Baggio. His career is just at the beginning, but that is already the most beautiful goal (and it is not that he has scored ugly, later).
That day from St. Paul they all parade Felici: one thing could think of it just Maradona, because it contains in itself the healthy transception of those who believe they can do it. Pibe de Oro’s stuff at the World Cup of Mexico ’86. Instead he displayed it – and made it – Roberto Baggio.