The tremors of the (not) younger Dessers

You could see from the eyes that it would go wrong, that that ball would never enter the net. He could go high, to the side of any pole, in the arms of the goalkeeper, but he certainly would never have entered the goal.

Cyriel Dessers he didn’t know where to look, his eyes wandered as obsessed as the legs of someone trying to escape from something he doesn’t want. And when it does, it never ends well. Having a good shot, perhaps strong and precise, may not be enough to score from the penalty spot. What is required above all is not to give a damn about the context, to let the indifference win: it is an act of selfishness to kick a penalty. There is room for nothing but yourself. Not even the team matters. A penalty is taken for personal glory, because it is the only moment in which a player can grab the scene alone, with no one around, without any intercession of men wearing the same shirt.

Cyriel Dessers didn’t do it. His shot went off between boxing gloves Emil Auderoone who is already good at reading the eyes and movements of the attackers in front of him, let alone when the person in front of him is terrified like a child in front of It.

Cyriel Dessers couldn’t be wrong, she was wrong. She couldn’t be wrong because Cremonese since she has been in Serie A, eleven games with the one they lost 0-1 at home against Sampdoria, gets more praise for how she plays, for how she faces their opponents head-on, even those who are in the high rankings. (against Inter and Atalanta he played well and “with bravado”, the sports reporters always allow him), what points. He has four, four draws, no win, last place in the standings.

And Cyriel Dessers couldn’t miss that penalty because Cremonese had to win against Sampdoria. And it is not clear how she failed to win the Cremonese, indeed how she managed to lose a game that in practice saw her attack often and never go into difficulty.. The Sampdoria have conquered the three points, the grigiorossi have had to settle for another zero. Above all, they had to deal with the soft legs of those who should have been the extra man, the one with broad enough shoulders to bear the weight of the search for the way to salvation.

Because Cyriel Dessers is not a fool. He is talented, has touch of the ball and movements like a seasoned striker, he is above all someone who has also shown that he knows how to score. Certainly not an avalanche of goals, but enough goals yes. Ten goals are not scored in the Conference League by chance, there is no sudden decisive action from the last games of the group to the semifinals in Europe through divine intercession or planetary alignment. Certainly the Conference League is not the Champions, but Feyenoord in the final against Roma brought him too.

The goals, those goals, are in hiding, the good will no, not even the air of those who would like to be a driving force. The Nigerian does so much on the field, he navigates on the sides of the attack, a memory of a past on the wing, he concentrates and stands in the center, kicks and gives them, pulls and knows how to do the bank. And yet with a certain refinement.

Cremona football has always had to do with refinement: it desires it, craves it, seeks it, gets it, then regrets it. He grasps the beauty of the moment, he is desperate to find it ephemeral. It was Emiliano Mondonico who said that Alviero Chiorri, one of the most fascinating and talented left wingers in Italian football between the Seventies and Eighties, had only one flaw: consistency. He never deprived himself of it, because after all “Alviero represents better than others, of all, the mystery of this city”.

The world loved Cremonese. He was born in football, he is still the best scorer in the history of the club, he became a coach there. He knew how to grasp its spirit. Above all, he knew, “that Cremonese is tiring, you need to bite what you have, hope that it won’t go too badly, because in one way or another it will go wrong. He won Serie A enjoying Gianluca Vialli’s first football cries. He said: “Gianluca is strong, he could become a champion, but he must learn not to tremble. Marco Nicoletti (his attack partner, ed) is one who never trembles. In the province, the failure of a season depends on how much the attacker trembles ”.

Cyriel Dessers is strong, she will never become a champion. A little bad. But if Cremonese wants to have any chance of salvation, she should find a way not to make her striker tremble.

Olives is the rubric of Giovanni Battistuzzi about (not necessarily) the protagonists of Serie A. In the first episode we talked about Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, in the second by Emil Audero, in the third by Boulaye Dia, in the fourth by Tommaso Baldanzi, in the fifth by Marko Arnautovic, in the sixth he has instead entertained Gabriele Spangaro with Beto, in the seventh by Christian Gytkjær, in the eighth Armand Laurienté, in the ninth Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, in the tenth Sandro Tonali.