Cellino, the coach-eating president exonerates himself. “Serenity worn by judicial troubles”

The man who made a brand out of compulsive exemption – summer/winter collection, making calls at mealtimes – exactly like the protagonist of “Interstellar” took a step forward and entered another wonderful galaxy, overturning the axiom which made him famous “I pay you and therefore I kick you out” and proceeding with the first self-exoneration of his prolific career. The news: the president of the Brescia, Massimo Cellino, relieved Massimo Cellino of the office of president of Brescia. In the dear and eternal cartoons of the “Enigmatic Week” one wonders: where is the intruder? The intruder is always him, the serial-Exemptor who is closely in his shoes.

Cellino, 56 coaches changed

In the dynamics of the exemption that you do not expect – after all, Brescia is in the play-off area and is fighting for Serie A – we read the bored melancholy of the man who is tired of everything, even of himself. Monsieur Cellino c’est mio, you explain it to Flaubert. I do and undo as I please. In his record accounting, after budgeting 49 exemptions (even double or triple) for a total of 56 rotations – a sweetened way to replace the more trivial “He kicked him in the c***” – and having hired the beauty of 46 coaches, now Cellino must add this exemption in the notebook of his works and omissions. +1. And that one is him. Perhaps – looking in the mirror – he was reminded of that triumph of Italian melodrama which is Minghi’s “Vattene amore” sung by Mietta. “Go away my love / there’s still time / Trottolino amoroso / Dududù Dadadà”.

Mazzone, Trapattoni, Allegri: Cellino’s coaches

He had already announced his resignation a couple of weeks ago, then suspended them, finally – in these hours in the usual circle of the “pissi pissi” balloonist – he made them official. In the press release in which he certifies the withdrawal from the club, Cellino speaks of “worn serenity” due to the criminal proceeding that has involved him and which has lasted for two years, with the seizure of the company’s assets, see the Torbole-Casaglia land entry, purchased to build the Rondinelle sports centre. Cellino still remains the owner, for now. At least until the sale separates him from his creature, purchased in 2017, taken to Serie A and immediately dropped back to Serie B. At 66 years old, with thirty years of football experience and lived on the front line behind him – he bought Cagliari in 1992 from the Orrù brothers for 16 billion euros lire, he hit a semi-final of the UEFA Cup, he had football teachers under his employ from George to Mazzonefrom Trapattoni And Tabarezinvented” Merry – and with the experience of prison, perhaps the rock-president of Italian football – he’s an ace on guitar – played the last solo, like Allen Collins in “Free Bird”.

Cellino and new beginnings

However, the man is a Houdini capable of sudden rebirths. In 2013 he was arrested for embezzlement and false ideology as part of the investigation by the Prosecutor of Cagliari into the construction works of the Is Arenas stadium in Quartu: he was released from the “Buoncammino” prison after three months, acclaimed by a thousand delirious fans, caparisoned with an American flag like a bandana on his head and dressed in a t-shirt with a definitive slogan: “Fuck off”, in large letters. Jail seemed to have silenced his enthusiasm. And instead, after a while he was seen again in the saddle, more loaded than a spring. So everything is to be expected. Even backtracking. Or sell. Or buy back the club. Or buy another one. Or that his coach, the Catalan Pep Clotet, out of solidarity, exonerate yourself. Always for trivial reasons, in the best tradition of the house. In the specialized magazines it is explained that the dog that bites its tail – unless there are patrols of parasites that annoy it – does it for fun – if it is a puppy – or for stress, if it is of the age of reason. Game or stress: even Cellino – from his experience – knows that other hypotheses are not contemplated.