Venice Gondolier Brady Twins Arrested Again

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VENICE, Italy — Joe Tacopina has a square jaw, slicked-back hair and a muscular torso threatening to explode through his tightly fitted shirt. There's more than a hint of Steven Seagal about him.

The 50-twelvemonth-quondam American has a reputation every bit a storyteller. The offset time I walk into his office, he speaks for 26 minutes earlier interrupting himself with the realisation I have yet to ask a question. Just then Tacopina has quite the story to tell.

It's a tale of a New York lawyer who wound up in one of Europe'due south most iconic cities, presiding over the romantic rebirth of a football club the locals thought gone forever. A yarn that plays out against a backdrop of canals and gondolas and globe-famous cathedrals. And 1 which ends—if Tacopina gets his way—with Venezia establishing themselves as "one of the most important teams in Italy and in Europe."

This epic does not begin in Venice, merely in Rome. For that is where Tacopina fabricated his first foray into Italian football, in the city where his male parent was born.

"Football started out as merely a passion play for me," he tells Bleacher Report. "People were like, 'What are you doing? You have a successful police force exercise.' But for me, I was so drawn in by the passion. I was doing some legal work in Italy, and I always tried to schedule my work over a weekend and so I'd have to be here for a game.

"What I felt, for two hours, hearing 20,000 fans in unison, chanting or singing, and feeling the foundation of the stadium moving—it was just something I'd never experienced before. You lot could come up with the biggest sporting issue in North America—the Super Bowl—and it doesn't compare."

Tacopina pictured in June 2015.

Tacopina pictured in June 2015. Getty

Tacopina was taking his five children to watch Roma at the Stadio Olimpico when he discovered just how difficult it was to buy them all replica shirts. "I needed a map to find the one place I could get any merchandise," he says. "Then, when I got at that place, they only had extra smalls. I was simply similar, 'Y'all guys suck.' I mean, you just left and so much money on the table. You have a captured audience."

Information technology is hard to know, listening to Tacopina'due south business relationship of what came side by side, where the truths cease and the artistic licence kicks in. He is a fabled storyteller, as y'all might await of a bright court lawyer—a defense force chaser who had won so many loftier-profile cases past 2007 that GQ ran a slice on him nether the headline "1-800-Salve-My-Donkey."

One suspects he is prone to embellishment—or at least to using language that allows his audience to magnify his importance in their own minds. We know, for example, that he introduced Roma to Thomas DiBenedetto, the businessman who led a takeover of the club in 2011. We also know Tacopina went on to assume the title of vice president.

But enquire virtually Tacopina's specific responsibilities during this time and information technology's hard to get a curtailed answer.

"When I came in there, I came in with a North American sports business model that nosotros had perfected," he says. Discussing his eventual departure in 2014, he says he was "ready to relaunch my model elsewhere."

James Pallotta, who succeeded DiBenedetto equally president of Roma in 2012, casts Tacopina's function in a dissimilar low-cal. "Beyond having a board seat, Joe had nix to practise with the operations or strategic vision of Roma. Just admittedly cipher," he says.

"We wish him well, that he can take what he might have seen—if he saw the good and the bad at Roma—and can use that to help at Venezia. But every bit far as what's gone on at Roma, it's a lot of other people that have been putting Roma where it is, and Joe just did not have an operating office on information technology."

Tacopina left Roma in 2014 to join upwardly with another grouping of North American investors, launching a takeover of Bologna. His role here, as club president, was more prominent, and in i flavor he helped to oversee the team's render from Serie B to the peak flying.

Tacopina pictured in October 2014 in his role as president of Bologna.

Tacopina pictured in October 2014 in his function as president of Bologna. Getty

He was adored past supporters, who hoisted him on their shoulders after promotion was secured, as well as by players—who sang his name in the locker room. In return, Tacopina said the only style he would go out Bologna was in a coffin.

Instead, he was gone by Oct. Canadian businessman Joey Saputo—who also owns Major League Soccer's Montreal Bear upon—had been serving as club chairman during the same flow, and afterwards an credible breakdown in their relationship, it was Tacopina who walked abroad. The details of exactly what went downwards are protected by a confidentiality agreement.

There is no suggestion here that Tacopina did anything wrong. To the contrary, both Bologna and Roma were in better shape by the time he left than when he arrived. The question in each case is whether he has taken credit for more than he should.

In the end, maybe information technology does non thing. As long as the outcome at Venezia is similar, supporters are unlikely to care.


Filippo Inzaghi steps downward into the h2o taxi, flashes a grin at the six people already on board and takes a seat next to mine. We've never met before, but he offers a warm "good evening" and pats me on the knee. His spare hand is working away furiously on the screen of a mobile phone.

"Bassano drew 2-ii with Forli," he announces to no one in particular. "And Ancona got an equaliser against Padova, right?"

The scene is as as surreal as it sounds. Filippo Inzaghi—the Filippo Inzaghi, he of 46 Champions League goals and two winners' medals; a man who has claimed Serie A titles with Milan and Juventus, not to mention a Globe Loving cup with Italy—is chugging through Venice on a pocket-sized wooden boat, anxiously double-checking the day's results from the Italian third tier.

Venezia manager Inzaghi on the training ground.

Venezia manager Inzaghi on the training footing. Andrea Bressanutti

That, and applying mental arithmetic to work out what it all ways for the league standings. "So we're two points clear right at present?" he continues. "OK, but Pordenone are just kicking off…"

The "we" that he refers to are Venezia Football game Club. Inzaghi took over equally manager back in June, a movement that left his own supporters bewildered. His last job was leading that same Milan team with whom he had won all there was to win as a player. Despite declining to emulate such success equally a tactician, few had expected him to driblet down 1 division—let alone two—for his next coaching appointment.

Strange things, though, are happening in Venice.

The residents hither were commencement to wonder whether they might wind upwardly with no football team at all back in the summer of 2015, after Venezia went bankrupt for the third fourth dimension in a decade. But and then an American showed upwardly with a large smile and even bigger ambitions. And everything started to alter in a hurry.

Venezia's crest painted on a wall in Venice.

Venezia'southward crest painted on a wall in Venice. Andrea Bressanutti

Equally Inzaghi frets away about scorelines and standings, that American snores gently in a corner. Tacopina gets his sleep wherever he can these days, taking advantage of any gaps that present themselves in between his dual lives every bit Venezia Football Club president and a New York City lawyer.

But when those eyes do open again, you can be sure that his mouth will soon follow.


Aware that his time with Bologna was coming to a close in the center of 2015, Tacopina started casting effectually for fresh opportunities. When he heard about the situation in Venice, he could not believe his ain good fortune.

"The Russian fella had left the gondola without a gondolier," he says. "The club was simply floating around, heading for defalcation. When I started looking at it, I was like, 'Wait, you lot have the most beautiful city in the world, and clearly the nigh unique city in the globe. 1 that has between 25 and thirty million tourists every year.'

"I thought about it for i full day, and I started thinking about the potential. I was similar, 'My God, what am I doing? How is no one else in the world, thinking, 'Hey, Italia, which has calcio (football), and Venice, the virtually visible city in Italy?' Why? Why? And what I could have information technology for?

Venezia's stadium can be seen to the right of the canal.

Venezia's stadium tin can be seen to the right of the canal. Andrea Bressanutti

"I had a chance to purchase information technology out. But instead of ownership a squad from bankruptcy in Lega Pro, the 3rd division, paying €6 1000000 in debts that [the former owner] owed, and starting our flavor minus six points because of penalties for payroll taxes not existence paid, I said, 'I'grand just going to permit it fold, and I'll relaunch with a new name.'"

Tacopina drew together an ownership group made up of friends and business associates. He is not at freedom to name the individuals involved just does state that everyone is American. He says he is the bulk shareholder "by a substantial amount."

The vision he sold them is the same one he has been selling to me and anyone else who will listen: that Venezia could become a global brand. Yes, the lodge lacks a glorious history, but imagine if the club becomes a tourist allure every bit integral to this city as the Doge'southward Palace or the Bridge of Sighs.

For that reason, rebranding was a height priority. The version of this club that existed between its two about recent bankruptcies had officially been known equally Foot Ball Lodge Unione Venezia S.r.l.

The new Venezia crest on display in the club's media area.

The new Venezia crest on brandish in the club's media area. Andrea Bressanutti

"Yous've buried the about important part of that title!" says Tacopina, known affectionately by his staff every bit
"The Machine of War" for his bulldoze and tenacity. "That'due south the worst thing you can do. You lot have FBC and Unione, and so there's 'Venezia' lost in the center. Venezia is the global brand. In that location'due south a reason there were 350 people at the initial press briefing afterwards I took over the club. Non because of me…because it's Venice."

The decision to relaunch the team equally Venezia Football Club was met locally with minor protests. Veteran supporters of Air-conditioning Mestre lamented that they were beingness written out of the picture. Tacopina counters by pointing out that the orange their team one time wore features prominently in the new club bluecoat and strip, together with Venezia'southward classic greenish and blackness.

Where the former club crest featured a winged panthera leo holding upwardly a bible—an image which abounds in Venice, symbolising St. Mark the Evangelist—the new one shows a more aggressive rendition of the same animal standing on an open book and bearing his teeth.

"The old panthera leo says, 'Welcome to our visitors, to our city; be safe,'" Tacopina says. "This lion says, 'Become the f--yard out or we'll kill you.'"

Tacopina'southward contention is that tourist preferences are changing. "They don't accept to be the biggest football fans in the globe, but people coming hither want something from Venice," he says. "Why buy another stupid, cheesy tourist T-shirt that says 'I love Venice' as opposed to something that'south very fashion-forrad, is a Nike product and has the city'southward name on it?" He'due south talking about the Venezia team shirts, of class.

That same outlook informs some other of his more intriguing ideas. Venezia take recently launched a new membership card, the Insider Pass, which comes arranged with a few goodies, including a scarf autographed past Inzaghi and a letter from Tacopina himself. Menu-holders are promised "access to game tickets, training sessions and other events and experiences." Simply the more tangible benefit, in the immediate term, is a package of discounts for unrelated products and services—everything from shops to hotels and museums—in the city of Venice.

"I literally took 1 of my commercial guys, and we went knocking on doors," says Tacopina. "We started in St. Marco'southward Square in the first jewellery store on the left. 'Hi, we're Venezia Football Club. We're going to exist offering a discount club to all our consumers, and we're reaching the North American, Asian tourist market. I'll direct them to your store, but y'all have to give my cardholders a discount, between 10 and 20 percent.' You'd exist surprised how many people jumped on it."

The passes cost €87 for Venice residents or €110 for people who don't have a local address. That is a significant reduction on the €110/€230 price-point that was set when they initially went on sale.

Does that reduction reverberate a recognition that Tacopina was overambitious in his initial expectations? Perhaps, and information technology certainly adjusts the potential revenue sums. When he first told me about the passes, back when they were still at the higher price betoken, he asserted that: "If I had one per cent of the tourist market annually—just 1 per cent—and then that's over €20 million a year."

Venezia tickets for sale from a tourist booth in Venice.

Venezia tickets for auction from a tourist berth in Venice. Andrea Bressanutti

Time will tell if either of those numbers of represents a realistic target, simply what nosotros can say is that few tourists visiting Venice from Asia or America will expect to get abroad with doing things on the cheap.

If the range of discounts is broad enough, then even not-football fans could consider the Insider Laissez passer to be a worthwhile investment.

And if nothing else, urban center does announced to have received this idea with enthusiasm. Also as being sold on the guild'south official website, they tin now exist acquired straight from hotels and tourism agencies in Venice. Tacopina says prowl operators have as well been in touch nearly the possibility of placing majority orders for passes that they could sell on board.'

His innovation in seeking out fresh revenue streams is commendable. But the primal pillar of Tacopina's long-term vision for Venezia sounds rather familiar. Just like Jurij Korablin, the departed "Russian fella" Tacopina mentions before, he intends to build a brand new stadium right next to Marco Polo Aerodrome.


In that location is no sporting arena in the earth quite like the Stadio Pierluigi Penzo. Venezia'southward domicile ground is old, common cold and decrepit—a aging building of croaky concrete and rusted metal with a flimsy hospitality cabin tacked on top of its one covered stand up. The bend (standing area) backside each goal is zilch more than than standalone metal bleachers that curve and sway under the weight of the oversupply.

And yet, it is also unspeakably beautiful, perfectly positioned on the northern tip of Sant'Elena—the eastern-most island in the main cluster that makes up Venice's historic centre. On a clear day, the view from the top of the stands over the Venetian Lagoon is scenic. Jump in with the fans riding out to the game on a vaporetto (water bus) from Santa Lucia station, and y'all can take in a few of the metropolis's iconic landmarks on your manner there, too.

On an emotional level, the thought of abandoning such a venue feels unspeakably sad. On a practical 1, there might non exist whatever other choice. There is no space to redevelop here, with the Venetian Lagoon surrounding the venue on 3 sides and a military facility on the fourth. The only obvious way to increment the existing capacity—a pocket-sized 7,500—would exist to enhance those exposed metal bleachers even higher, as the club's president Maurizio Zamparini did during the social club's concluding stint in the peak flying.

Even so, tin can supporters really exist content to come across their team relocate? To my surprise, those I speak to offering few objections. Many have already moved to Mestre themselves, an embodiment of the long-term population shift away from the old urban center centre. And besides, the Penzois uncomfortable and hard to achieve. As long as it is maintained for some purpose—every bit a training facility, perhaps—the locals can bide the thought of a move.

Andrea Bressanutti

And what of Tacopina's suggestion that up to 40 percentage of game tickets in the new stadium could be sold to tourists? I had imagined there might be some resistance to the idea of a soulless footing packed with foreign visitors, just instead I find more pragmatism. If tourist money helps contribute to a more than successful team, and then why non?

Quondam Venezia striker Paolo Poggi, who at present works as a club ambassador, helps me to understand the mindset. A kid who grew up a stone'due south throw away from the Penzo, he comes from a family that—similar so many others in this metropolis—brand their living from the tourist industry. His blood brother runs a bed-and-breakfast, just as his parents used to.

"Venezia has always had a chip of an open up civilization," he says. "We are used to hosting people. We want people to come here. We want them to come here, to our home, with a sense of curiosity to understand what we are well-nigh."

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo.

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo. Nathen McVittie

In a sense, we are getting ahead of ourselves. Even the most optimistic estimates propose the proposed new stadium—with a chapters of between 22,000 and 25,000, as well every bit further commercial and events facilities congenital onto the aforementioned site—will accept years to accomplish.

Tacopina insists it tin can be done by 2019, citing the enthusiasm of the new city mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, only others are more than circumspect. Edifice stadiums is a complicated business, and despite new legislation designed to facilitate that process, Italian hierarchy remains notoriously slow.

The more immediate priority, in whatever case, has been to construct a competitive team. Fifty-fifty Tacopina would readily acknowledge that few tourists are going to get excited about the idea of coming to lookout man a squad playing in the Italian third tier.


At that place is no smashing tradition of footballing success in Venice. The city's team has been relaunched and rebranded numerous times over the grade of its 110-year history, but not since the 2d World War has it threatened to usurp the Italian aristocracy.

Inspired by the vivid midfield pairing of Ezio Loik and Valentino Mazzola, Venezia won the Coppa Italia in 1941 and came tertiary in Serie A a year later. They have never won another major piece of silverware, nor finished again in the height half of the top flight. For virtually of the intervening five-and-a-one-half decades, they have competed in the tertiary and quaternary divisions.

Such modest results reflect demographic realities. The population of the 117 small islands that make up the celebrated centre of Venice has been in steady decline since the 1930s, and by 2009 it had fallen to around lx,000 people.

Venezia did aggrandize their reach in 1987 by merging with Ac Mestre, a squad from the mainland. Although technically a borough of Venice, Mestre is separated from those islands by a 2-and-a-half mile long bridge, La Ponte della Liberta.

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo.

Stadio Pierluigi Penzo. Nathen McVittie

In a nation where notions of campanilismo—the word translates literally to "bell-tower-ism" simply is used to convey the trigger-happy sense of pride and identity many Italians feel towards their local communities—nevertheless hold sway, such a move was always going to exist met with hostility. As John Foot notes in his book Calcio, many fans boycotted the new team, while others came to blows in the terraces.

Success, though, has a fashion of softening one-time grievances. Calcio Venezia-Mestre, as they would exist known for the side by side 18 years, rose all the way to Serie A in 1998, prompting thousands of fans to flood St. Marker's Square in celebration. Tacopina keeps a framed photo of that scene in his role "as a reminder of what's to come."

As joyful as that moment was, it became the prologue to i of the about extraordinary and unhappy capacity in Venezia's history. Relegated in 2000, they initially bounced directly back upwards, only to terminate bottom of Serie A in 2001-02. During the summertime that followed, Zamparini struck a deal to buy some other squad—Palermo.

Venezia'southward players had already gathered together for preseason training when a coach pulled up outside their hotel. It collected 12 members of the first-squad squad, along with newly appointed director Ezio Glerean, and whisked them off to Palermo's grooming camp instead. Zamparini not only jumped ship, but he took the best part of his crew with him.

The players left behind demonstrated remarkable resilience, staving off relegation from Serie B for two years, simply Venezia struggled to find new investors and went bankrupt in 2005. They were soon reborn under a new name but survived just 4 years earlier going bosom over again. This time, they had to get-go over from the fifth tier.

Plaques chart the history of football in Venice.

Plaques chart the history of football in Venice. Nathen McVittie

Their fortunes finally seemed to exist looking upwards in 2011 with the arrival of a Russian consortium to take over the club. Outgoing president Enrico Rigoni vowed that the new owners—led by businessman Korablin—had both the funds and the ambition to take Venezia back to Serie A, as well as building a new stadium that would put them on a sound fiscal footing for the time to come.

Initial results were promising. Venezia secured back-to-back promotions, and in 2014, Korablin purchased a plot of state on the mainland, close to Marco Polo Airport, with the intention of making this the site for their new dwelling house ground. But the project was fatally undermined when the then-mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, was arrested together with a number of other public officials every bit function of a abuse investigation.

Orsoni's subsequent resignation, combined with the broader disruption to local government, effectively put the stadium projection on ice. Past the summertime of 2015, Korablin had lost patience and put Venezia upwardly for auction. No new heir-apparent materialised in time to pay the Lega Pro subscription fees, then the club went to the wall for the third time in 10 years.

That was where Tacopina came in.


Where practise you lot begin when building a football squad from scratch? The Venezia side that sprung dorsum into existence in the summertime of 2015 endemic none of its former players or coaching staff. It did non even accept Tacopina as its public face at first, since he had not nevertheless formally extricated himself from Bologna.

What it did have was one overqualified sporting manager. Giorgio Perinetti had worked in the past at Napoli (during the Diego Maradona era, no less), Roma and Juventus. More recently, he was the human being who spotted Andrea Belotti—whose explosive form and showtime Italy call-upward was ane of calcio's biggest stories of 2016—signing him upwards for Palermo from third-division AlbinoLeffe.

The new Venezia crest outside of their stadium.

The new Venezia crest outside of their stadium. Andrea Bressanutti

In years gone past, Perinetti might have never entertained the idea of getting involved in a project similar this one. Just he found himself at a particular life juncture in early 2015, contemplating a return to work after a yr spent caring, and then grieving, for his wife, who passed away after a long disease.

"A common friend of myself and Tacopina sought me out and asked if I would consider Venezia," Perinetti tells Bleacher Study. "At that stage, I simply wanted to get to know the person and the projection. When we starting time started talking, we were discussing a team that we expected to start life in Lega Pro (the tertiary tier).

"Tacopina is a very articulate, very direct person. He's a person who transmits a lot of enthusiasm, and that really took me. And so we learned that it would not exist a case of starting from Lega Pro, afterwards all, but right from Serie D (the fourth tier), amateur football. I've never washed that earlier.

"That became an heady matter for me in itself. I had already won every possible league—both at a youth level and a professional person level. Only I'd never won annihilation in the amateurs."

A football obsessive, Perinetti had continued to lookout games throughout his time away but could not pretend to take any detailed scouting knowledge of players at this level. Instead, he relied on the relationships built up over the course of a career—getting in touch with every contact he had who might be able to offer advice. He likewise hired a director, Paolo Favaretto, with experience of competing at this level.

"Through friendships, casting the net broad and meeting people, nosotros managed to sign 21 players in one week," he remembers with a smile. "A record! We didn't have a unmarried thespian, and so, inside seven days, we had 21."

Perinetti did not recognise all of the players he was signing, merely they knew all about him. Francesco Cernuto was the solitary fellow member of Venezia's pre-defalcation squad who came back to join this new iteration. To do then required dropping down a division and putting his religion in what was—with Tacopina not withal able to reveal himself—essentially a faceless regime.

"I, like a great number of the lads who agreed to play for this team concluding twelvemonth, did so only and exclusively because Perinetti was here," Cernuto says. "He is one of the nearly important directors in Italian football. If he, Perinetti, trusts this new president, so how are us kids not going to exercise the same?"

Venezia finished top of their regional pool—winning promotion to Lega Pro. A host of further signings arrived in the summer of 2016, including one-time Udinese and Napoli defender Maurizio Domizzi equally well every bit ex-Watford, Granada and Levante forrard Alexandre Geijo.

The most stunning new hire, though, was the managing director.


On my last full day in Venice, I terminate past to watch a training session at the squad's facility on the outskirts of Mestre. A lone Chinese tourist stands outside the gates. The conditions is frosty, but he waits in the hopes of meeting Inzaghi. In some tiny way, his presence feels like a validation of Tacopina'southward belief that Venezia Football Club could—with the correct people on board—somewhen go a global brand.

Inzaghi himself could not care less most such things. He is polite to a fault and will accept the fourth dimension to chat and pose for a photograph with this company earlier the morn is through. But his own involvement lies exclusively with what happens on the football pitch.

Giorgio Perinetti.

Giorgio Perinetti. Nathen McVittie

After losing his chore at Milan in the summer of 2015, he decided to take a sabbatical—non to give himself a suspension from the sport, but to visit with different clubs and coaches, trying to develop his ain noesis and so that he would be improve equipped to succeed the next fourth dimension around.

"And so I wanted to start afresh," he says. "The segmentation didn't interest me. What interested me was finding a project that would give me the joy of coaching. I had different requests, some from China and some from higher divisions in Italy every bit well. Simply I didn't look at the economic aspect. I wanted to go where there was something important to do."

That he believes he has found such a identify is evident in his actions. Our water taxi ride together had come at the end of a 1-0 home win over Gubbio, a friction match Inzaghi spent entirely on his feet, prowling, gesturing and bawling out instructions from his technical surface area at the Penzo.

"For me, managing Venezia is the aforementioned every bit when I was managing Milan. Nothing changes. When I practise something—anything—that becomes my Champions League. It'southward my everything. Taking Venezia back into the divisions that it deserves to play in, that'south something which matters a lot for me."

So far, he is on course. Lega Pro is a notoriously difficult partitioning to escape from, with sixty teams split beyond three pools competing for just iv spots in Serie B. Venezia currently sit first in their group—a position that would guarantee them promotion. Slip even to second, however, and they would be dragged into a 27-team playoff from which only one can emerge.

Venezia manager Inzaghi.

Venezia director Inzaghi. Nathen McVittie

For Tacopina, information technology is a necessary evil. In that location is no fashion of buying direct access to the higher divisions, although he is open in admitting that the order is being run at a loss for the present—outspending the contest on wages in order to climb the ladder faster.

That will end, he insists, one time they accomplish Serie B. "We'll pretty much be cocky-sustaining once we get at that place. There are real media revenues at that bespeak—about €7 million, as opposed to €700,000."

Inzaghi was intrigued by the American's vision for what happens adjacent: a team that Tacopina hopes will rely kickoff and foremost on homegrown talent. Through high-profile try-outs led by old stars (some other benefit of Perinetti'southward contacts book) too equally old-fashioned scouting, Venezia have revived their university in a hurry. In December, their nether-15s won a match against the equivalent age group from Juventus.

Most of all, though, Inzaghi seems to accept been captivated past Tacopina himself. "The first time I spoke to the president, he transmitted to me a truly incredible enthusiasm, a desire to do well," he says. "I wanted to wednesday myself to a project, and he gave me conviction right abroad."

The president's relentless positivity is undeniably contagious. In the street, fans cease to milk shake his hand, or just acknowledge him as they laissez passer with a cry of "Grande Joe!" It is an acknowledgement non only of the social club's improved class merely the fact he has always "messo la faccia"—shown his face here in Venice, attending not simply home games but countless club events and charitable functions.

Can he evangelize on the promises he is making? For now, that feels like an unanswerable question. We practise non even know who else is with him on the gild board, much less what combined expertise and fiscal might they can offer.

At times, Tacopina does get ahead of himself. Perinetti recalls a conversation the pair had at the outset, when they were preparing for their commencement season in Serie D. "Joe kept proverb, 'In iii years, we'll exist playing in Serie A,'" says the manager. "I had to say, 'No, even if everything goes perfectly, nosotros're still going to demand four!'"

What improve setting could there exist than Venice, though, to dream an unlikely dream? You could forgive a human being who dozed off on a water taxi, listening to Filippo Inzaghi fret near Santarcangelo's match against Sambenedettese, for believing that nada is impossible anymore.

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Source: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2696920-all-hail-the-monster-of-war-joe-tacopinas-romantic-vision-for-venezia

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