Vialli, an atypical genius of Italian football. The footballer who lived in the future

For the younger ones (who you missed) it is the brother in tears who embraces his twin Roby Mancio at Wembley. For others, the incredible and finally fulfilled dream of that magnificent utopia that was Boskov and Mantovani’s Sampdoria. And then the choice of London, twenty years in advance and the first of our brain drain

If the false nueve were a concept that could be hypostasized, capable of living on its own thought even outside the flue gas stations of the commentators; if the atypical centre-forward were an all-round applicable idea of ​​a footballer, instead of serving as an excuse when the coaches can’t explain why a striker is so good that he can’t be reduced to a scheme or a shirt number, it would be easier to define Gianluca Vialli as the most atypical footballer Italian football has ever had.