Lele Adani, lone outburst during PSG-Bayern
The spectacular match seen at the Parc des Princes between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich has again triggered Rai commentator Daniele Adani, who returned to target Italian soccer during the show between the French and German champions, which ended 5-4 for Luis Enrique’s team.
On Instagram Adani published an ironic post, “Eh but the defenses!” targeting Italians who criticized what they saw in Paris, then adding the emoticon of the hand in the face with the text (poor soccer) to make his criticism explicit.
In recent days Adani had harshly criticized Milan-Juventus, which ended 0-0. “In my opinion, half of the Italians are happy with this match,” he had told Domenica Sportiva. “How many? Be honest, many, too many. It’s 10 years that I’ve been saying that to align ourselves with the world we have to make a soccer of rhythm, of proposal, of domination, of courage, and I get taken for a philosopher or theoretician. This is the truth.”
“This soccer is not exportable. We make people laugh, we do not excite: today those who watched this game turned off after 15 minutes. The right quote is “There’s nothing left to do but cry,” you all know that, however, you also know that all around you there will be those who say, “But it’s not the show that counts, it’s the result that counts.”
According to Adani, the debate on the progress of soccer has been poisoned by the terms “game-keepers” and “resultists.” “Horrible terms, but I don’t do counterculture. It’s just the culture that’s in this country that’s wrong, because controversy is better than analysis, because analysis requires in-depth analysis because no one can explain to you why we then make a laughing stock at the club level in the Cups or why we’re going out for the Third World Cup. Because we have to hold the offices and the chairs, but we don’t know then however to find the solutions.”
“Why is our pace of soccer the slowest or why do we have the worst refereeing,” Adani asked himself. It’s soccer that sucks, however, 0-0 like this is good, we’re fine…we’ve reached the goal. Is everyone happy? Are we sure? Are the 60,000 at the San Siro? Are they happy because they reached third, fourth place for the Champions League? Guys, to make the result you don’t have to play games like that that suck and they have to admit it even to those who tell you separately in newspapers, in blogs, in Instagram accounts, in all the social media, on TVs.”
