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Roberto Baggio has written a new chapter to his successful autobiography dealing with his disappointment at missing the 2002 World Cup.
A running theme throughout his book ‘Una Porta nel Cielo’ (A goal in the sky) was the veteran’s optimism that he would one day wear the Azzurri shirt again in a major tournament.
However, Giovanni Trapattoni did not consider the Divine Ponytail for the World Cup in Japan and Korea, probably putting an end to his international career.
In the book’s new sections the Brescia player describes Trap’s decision as “inexplicable” and confirms he wishes to carry on playing for another two years.
35-year-old Baggio confessed in an interview this summer that he could not bear to watch the competition and spent that month on his estate in Argentina.
Magazine ‘Sette’ revealed that among the themes discussed in this new chapter are his encounter with a leopard during that holiday, the agony at losing a friend and his remarkable 76-day recovery from a ruptured knee ligament.
The new edition is released in Italy on Thursday and the autobiography has up until now sold over 200,000 copies.
Football Italia
I bet mate read Una Porta nel Cielo?
I wanted to buy the book but in every bookshop I went it was already sold out :down:
A running theme throughout his book ‘Una Porta nel Cielo’ (A goal in the sky) was the veteran’s optimism that he would one day wear the Azzurri shirt again in a major tournament.
However, Giovanni Trapattoni did not consider the Divine Ponytail for the World Cup in Japan and Korea, probably putting an end to his international career.
In the book’s new sections the Brescia player describes Trap’s decision as “inexplicable” and confirms he wishes to carry on playing for another two years.
35-year-old Baggio confessed in an interview this summer that he could not bear to watch the competition and spent that month on his estate in Argentina.
Magazine ‘Sette’ revealed that among the themes discussed in this new chapter are his encounter with a leopard during that holiday, the agony at losing a friend and his remarkable 76-day recovery from a ruptured knee ligament.
The new edition is released in Italy on Thursday and the autobiography has up until now sold over 200,000 copies.
Football Italia
I bet mate read Una Porta nel Cielo?
I wanted to buy the book but in every bookshop I went it was already sold out :down:
OMG!!! he's already got Gray hair! :down:
With all the success he's had, i still think it wasn't nearly enough compared with his potential...
he was extremely unlucky in his career with Coaches and couple of Injuries at crucial times.....
Not to mention the psycologial damage after he missed that Penalty....
I admire his mental strength.
With all the success he's had, i still think it wasn't nearly enough compared with his potential...
he was extremely unlucky in his career with Coaches and couple of Injuries at crucial times.....
Not to mention the psycologial damage after he missed that Penalty....
I admire his mental strength.
Of course I read "una porta nel cielo"
It is a very nice book! It sold so much... it was the record of all time 4 a "sport book" in Italy.
I didn't buy the new one yet... I heard about it but I didn't know it was already out.
I saw in the "corriere della sera" the preview of the "sette" cover with Baggio... looks :thumb:
I suggest you to read the book too, but I heard a lot of fans complaining cause ther's not an englisch version yet... ther's a japonise, chinise, korean, viatnamite, everything but not englisch... is it true or you saw it?
It is a very nice book! It sold so much... it was the record of all time 4 a "sport book" in Italy.
I didn't buy the new one yet... I heard about it but I didn't know it was already out.
I saw in the "corriere della sera" the preview of the "sette" cover with Baggio... looks :thumb:
I suggest you to read the book too, but I heard a lot of fans complaining cause ther's not an englisch version yet... ther's a japonise, chinise, korean, viatnamite, everything but not englisch... is it true or you saw it?
For those of you who can't read Italian, or you've lost all hope in finding Baggio's Book, i found this link that might help.
It's an online English translation of Baggio's book.
I don' think it's done by a professional Translator, so u might not get the exact words as spoken by Baggio, but it might help.
http://www.geocities.com/baggiosite/upnc.html
Though, i wouldn't read 2 sections.
1. "Juventus Plot"
2. "Oppressions by Lippi"
it's not a pretty discription of what goes on behind the scenes. For the first time, i started to feel hate towards Juve!!! and Lippi!!
:down: it really messes up ur mind!!!! :down:
One more thing, Baggio seems very stuck-up!! (I did, I am, I will, i was, i had, ....)
maybe its the translation!!?!
It's an online English translation of Baggio's book.
I don' think it's done by a professional Translator, so u might not get the exact words as spoken by Baggio, but it might help.
http://www.geocities.com/baggiosite/upnc.html
Though, i wouldn't read 2 sections.
1. "Juventus Plot"
2. "Oppressions by Lippi"
it's not a pretty discription of what goes on behind the scenes. For the first time, i started to feel hate towards Juve!!! and Lippi!!
:down: it really messes up ur mind!!!! :down:
One more thing, Baggio seems very stuck-up!! (I did, I am, I will, i was, i had, ....)
maybe its the translation!!?!
Trapattoni Blasts Baggio Over Autobiography Claim
10/31/2002. The controversies between Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni and Roberto Baggio continue.
In the latest chapter of Baggio's autobiography he suggests that he wasn't picked for the World Cup for fear that this could have caused trouble inside the team.
Trapattoni, though, has hit back.
"I don't care what Baggio says, I'm a real man and not one who cries and complains," said the under-pressure coach.
SA Italy
My Comments:
its a shame what a great player like Baggio had to go through!!!!
i believe he suffered alot due to being unlucky
10/31/2002. The controversies between Italy coach Giovanni Trapattoni and Roberto Baggio continue.
In the latest chapter of Baggio's autobiography he suggests that he wasn't picked for the World Cup for fear that this could have caused trouble inside the team.
Trapattoni, though, has hit back.
"I don't care what Baggio says, I'm a real man and not one who cries and complains," said the under-pressure coach.
SA Italy
My Comments:
its a shame what a great player like Baggio had to go through!!!!
i believe he suffered alot due to being unlucky
Majed, is that the real text?? The chapters are so short, looks more like a summary.
For a man whose reputation is of being so extremely humble, I don't exactly see how publishing one book after another supports that opinion. He doesn't get picked for KoreaJapan, he writes another book to complain about Trap. And as I browse the list of chapters Majed provided (assuming this is a reliable translation) I only see him complaining, it's not his fault, he was betrayed, Sacchi is crazy, it goes on and on. I can't say I've seen too many other players complain like this, looks like he has a bit of an ego there..
For a man whose reputation is of being so extremely humble, I don't exactly see how publishing one book after another supports that opinion. He doesn't get picked for KoreaJapan, he writes another book to complain about Trap. And as I browse the list of chapters Majed provided (assuming this is a reliable translation) I only see him complaining, it's not his fault, he was betrayed, Sacchi is crazy, it goes on and on. I can't say I've seen too many other players complain like this, looks like he has a bit of an ego there..
looks like he has a HUGE ego...i didn;t like what i read at all!
:fero:
the book seemed to focus on:
Good coaches should center the team around me [Baggio]...Good clubs should think i'm the best player on earth.
another thing: He never said how good Del Piero has become!!
he only mentioned that he helped him and that DP sucked in all ternauments.
BTW, It says that an amature translated them...not only that, i think all it is is a summery of the book....
:fero:
the book seemed to focus on:
Good coaches should center the team around me [Baggio]...Good clubs should think i'm the best player on earth.
another thing: He never said how good Del Piero has become!!
he only mentioned that he helped him and that DP sucked in all ternauments.
BTW, It says that an amature translated them...not only that, i think all it is is a summery of the book....
The first book is amazing!!!
What he said about Lippi is not taking more than few lines and, anycase it was already wellknown from everybody here... so was not surprising...
The second one I haven't buy it yet but looks like it is about a lot of things... the injures, the recovery, Fiorentina problems, ecc... about Trap looks like he said he didn't really understand the real reason why he excluded him from the WC cause he said "you are injured, your condition are not good" while after the surgery he played in the last 3 matches of the championschip and scored 3 goals in 130 minutes and considered all the season he scored 11 goals in 12 match ... well he's not the olyone who want to know the real reason... all Italy will like to know it...
I think the biggest Baggio "problem" was that he remained a "real person" who says what he wants, what he likes and what he doesn't like without becoming "somting to be sold and to make money with" like mostly of the the other players... of course that caused him a lot of bad experiens especially with coaches and with "powerful people" but that's made all the fans loved him how it never happened and will never happen again here in Italy... He is just himself and he doesn't care to do what "it will be better to do"... I'm sure he prefer to be like this and he prefer to have million of peaple who loves him than Crappattoni to speak good about him....
I looked 4 the place where you can buy the books
This is the editor website: www.liminaedizioni.it , and this is their email [email protected] , and of course you can find it also in generic book's website like www.libridellosport.it ...
Remember that those books titols are "Una pota nel cielo" and "il sogno dopo" and Baggio is the autor cause I saw ther's so many books about him in the net: "Baggio", "ti ricordi, Baggio, quel rigore?", " Baggio vorrei che tu cartesio ed io", " storia e miti dei mondiali - pele', maradona, baggio e altre meraviglie", "toccato da Dio - le sette vite di Roberto Raggio" but they are all written from others autors not from him.
What he said about Lippi is not taking more than few lines and, anycase it was already wellknown from everybody here... so was not surprising...
The second one I haven't buy it yet but looks like it is about a lot of things... the injures, the recovery, Fiorentina problems, ecc... about Trap looks like he said he didn't really understand the real reason why he excluded him from the WC cause he said "you are injured, your condition are not good" while after the surgery he played in the last 3 matches of the championschip and scored 3 goals in 130 minutes
and considered all the season he scored 11 goals in 12 match ... well he's not the olyone who want to know the real reason... all Italy will like to know it...I think the biggest Baggio "problem" was that he remained a "real person" who says what he wants, what he likes and what he doesn't like without becoming "somting to be sold and to make money with" like mostly of the the other players... of course that caused him a lot of bad experiens especially with coaches and with "powerful people" but that's made all the fans loved him how it never happened and will never happen again here in Italy... He is just himself and he doesn't care to do what "it will be better to do"... I'm sure he prefer to be like this and he prefer to have million of peaple who loves him than Crappattoni to speak good about him....
I looked 4 the place where you can buy the books
This is the editor website: www.liminaedizioni.it , and this is their email [email protected] , and of course you can find it also in generic book's website like www.libridellosport.it ...
Remember that those books titols are "Una pota nel cielo" and "il sogno dopo" and Baggio is the autor cause I saw ther's so many books about him in the net: "Baggio", "ti ricordi, Baggio, quel rigore?", " Baggio vorrei che tu cartesio ed io", " storia e miti dei mondiali - pele', maradona, baggio e altre meraviglie", "toccato da Dio - le sette vite di Roberto Raggio" but they are all written from others autors not from him.
Yes, it is a summary... I read it... it is so long... and it speaks about so many things who are not in the summary.
He just prefered to play in Italy with a coach with who the feeling was :thumb: having the chance to ply his 4 WC insted than to go to Japan also if he was been offered 3 times the money he get in Brescia... He did a good choice cause I don't think he needs money and also if he injured and didn't go to the WC he won "his personal challage" and cause we Italians need him in seria A... we need owers "football Panda"...
He just prefered to play in Italy with a coach with who the feeling was :thumb: having the chance to ply his 4 WC insted than to go to Japan also if he was been offered 3 times the money he get in Brescia... He did a good choice cause I don't think he needs money and also if he injured and didn't go to the WC he won "his personal challage" and cause we Italians need him in seria A... we need owers "football Panda"...