“Being the best winger in Serie A in the last two seasons is not enough. ..In Italy we only move forward with loans, recycled old glories, foreigners, …players who cost nothing. The best players, if they want to do something important, have to run away. Goodbye Serie A, we are going to the football that counts”. The statement of Federica Riccardi, wife of Alessio Cercidid not bring much luck to the winger from Valmontone. Because after moving from Turin to Atletico Madrid, after five months he was back in Serie A, wearing the Milan shirt. Not well, in fact, rather bad: from then on seven seasons between Atletico and Genoa, Ankaragucu, Verona and Salernitana, to then end up at Arezzo in C, in the unfortunate season of relegation.
Nine goals in seven years. A truly heartbreaking record, with Cerci who, since that sort of baptism, has never emerged from the tunnel of crisis. What’s more: every time he was close to passing from an unfinished figure to a fundamental talent, he never managed to make the final leap, that of consecration.
Ricci, accelerations and some particular exits, Cerci has never won anything except a Primavera championship with Roma. Yet as a professional he has played 336 games between the championship and cups.