And in the end, that rigor made him wrong. It’s only the big ones. A great game against Brazil in the World Championship final, a great physical recovery during the same game and then fatigue after the extra, along with the heat. The door that becomes too small, the ball too big, as it goes towards the sky forgetting the cross.
And then tears. Only the champions cry. Baresi is embraced by another great, but of different pasta: that Arrigo Sacchi, the Galileo of football, who had made his Milan a perfect machine.
“Mutatis mutandis”, Baudelaire once said, “that he had heard the wind of the wing of unbelief on himself. In this regard, the great Carmelo Bene said, in an old Maurizio Costanzo Show, that the wind always rests and only on the great.
And Franco Baresi, crying like a child for that mistake at the rigours of the world final, showed, together with the extraordinary technique of the defender, his greatness as a man.
But Franco Baresi was not only the symbol of a blue mesh to carry with that value intensity that today scarcely. Baresi was the perfect mylanist: twenty years with the same shirt, the same colors and the same symbols, a passion, an identity line of other times, but today, in football dominated by finance and show, can still represent a lesson.
While discussing the proposal of Infantino, head of FIFA, to cede the organization of the World Cup to private funds, the great Baresi leaves us: too early for an earthly biography, but already inserted in the mausoleum of those who made the ball immortal.
Today everyone applauds, remembers and weeps. As a mylanist for ever, Cardinal, with his new American and Italian Milan, dedicates the honors due to him.
Moreover, certain values are not related to a history, fashion or a model of governance, but to a way of being in sport, where talent never abandons ethics.
This is his great legacy. Goodbye, Franco.
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