Lawyer, the important thing is that Bonini does not smoke, and he is the one who has to run
Michel Platini and in the changing rooms of the old Comunale of Turin, during the interval of a Juve match. In front of him there is an astonished Gianni Agnelli who sees him smoking between one time and another. Next to it is the blond from San Marino , the bottle cage of a team that won everything in the 1980s thanks to the kilometers ground by Massimo Bonini .
Before Manuel Poggiali and Alex De Angelis in motorcycles, the Republic of San Marino had its standard-bearer in the Juventus midfielder,awarded as the best player in the history of this small state of 33 thousand souls that makes space in central-northern Italy between Emilia Romagna and Marche.
“Our fantastic third foreigner” after Platini and Boniek, as the president Giampiero Boniperti called him , and already predestined by the youth teams played with the formation of Juvenes in his Serravalle. In 1977, at the age of 18, the call from Bellaria in Serie C arrives, the first chapter of a mini tour in the Emilia-Romagna area with Forli and Cesena. The promotion to Serie A earned him the call from Giovanni Trapattoni in 1981 as the heir of Beppe Furino in the Juventus midfield.
The dam in the middle of the field, the ball stealer to be sorted forward, the cover half for the offensive raids by Platini and Boniek, Rossi and Tardelli himself who, thanks to Bonini, has more offensive vocation in his role.
I liked being the halfback because I was not the center of attention, but of the game. I had to run a lot and well and it was all simple to me. It was about knowing how to see the game, make the ball run, occupy the spaces to recover balls and relaunch the attackers. But, above all, it was necessary to put the team in order, to recall one’s teammates when the thread was lost a little
(Interview with Francesco Caremani on Stories of Soccer)
Bonini captain of San Marino in the match against England that cost the English failed to qualify for the ’94 World Cup
With Trap Juventus he won everything: three league titles, an Italian Cup, a Cup Winners’ Cup, a European Super Cup, a Champions Cup (in the accursed Heysel final) and an Intercontinental Cup. San Marino
is also in his palmares . He first played nine times in the Italian under-21 national team of Azeglio Vicini then chose to wear the colors of his homeland with 19 appearances . One of these will go down in the history of the World Cup, indeed of the qualifying for the World Cup: and on the evening of November 17, 1993, and the evening of the match between San Marino and England, that of the 7-1 defeat , but that single goal scored in record time from Gualtiericost the failure of England to qualify for the 1994 American World Cup. And Bonini wore the captain’s armband that evening.
Hanging up his boots, Massimo Bonini will also be the coach of San Marino between 1996 and 1997 while today he is the technical director of the San Marino Football Federation.
If you are lucky enough to be born in San Marino it is right that you play for your national team. I was born here and I have always lived great here. I also had Italian grandparents, and I could have, but it would have been absurd. I have already been lucky enough to play in a stellar Juve, with people like Platini, and win a lot. That’s okay
(Corriere di Bologna, 30 May 2013)
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