Atalanta, dream-Champions: Gasperini-Percassi, the masterpiece of a visionary couple

The Atalanta that reaches the second round of the Champions League is for us from Bergamo – pòta (it should be said by spreading its arms) – something inexplicable as it is difficult to tell the wonders of nature (they must be seen and experienced) and impossible to understand the supernatural mysteries, and not just because Atalanta is the Goddess for all. This is a success that should be enjoyed without asking too many questions, perhaps toasting with a small glass of good grappa. Because to leave you breathless is the path that the group (players, technician, society, fans) has been doing for three years: one step at a time more and more up, silencing the skeptics and conquering the envious, amusing the bored and satisfying the demanding.

Without ever feeling dizzy. A climb to paradise (football and economic) that for a provincial company like the Nerazzurri and for a proud city that is attached to the jersey like Bergamo is the apotheosis.

Already, this Atalanta is Bergamo and Bergamo is this Atalanta: just see how the Nerazzurri players have bergamaschizzati – stubborn, brave, generous, despite being almost all foreigners – and how the Bergamo people have become Europeans, who sometimes get lazy in their land and they think that the world has ended beyond the walls of the Upper Town, and instead now they travel everywhere to never leave the team alone. L 'Atalanta and Bergamo have improved each other and now enjoy this historic enterprise that has above all two names: the president Antonio Percassi and the coach Gian Piero Gasperini.

A couple that always sees in the future even at the cost of passing for a visionary, even if perhaps this time even they had not arrived so far in the forecasts. Because the Atalanta has amazed everyone and, pòta, has become the true Goddess of the Champions.

by Alessandro Dell'Orto