Angelo Peruzzi It has nothing to do with football anymore. During an interview with Corriere della Serathe former goalkeeper spoke about his new life: “Why? Everything has changed. The players? A company. They sign a three-year contract and after a few months they ask for a raise with the agent or want to be sold. The goalkeepers? Better with my feet than with my hands. I couldn’t play today. I’m not saying it’s wrong, but it’s not for me.
Current affairs: “I don’t spend much time at home. I take care of my real estate interests and above all I spend time outdoors: my land, my woods, mushrooms, wild boar hunting. Family, friends, the simple things that make me feel good. Football has become a cinema, it’s not for me. They called me Boar? I don’t like it, I prefer Tyson, Liedholm put it to me.”
The first memory related to football?
“The 70s. The last street of Blera, dusty, little frequented: three against three with a small rubber ball to score goals, with wooden boxes as goals”.
Without goalkeepers?
“Without it. I enjoyed scoring goals. But, let’s be honest, I was a bitch.”
But then how could this happen?
“My primary school teacher, in fifth grade, organized a practice match. Who goes to the goal? Silence. So let’s do this: whoever touches the crossbar becomes the goalkeeper. I was the tallest, I grazed it, I remained between the posts. Two years later, the former Roma player Scaratti comes to Capranica, a few kilometers from home, for a tryout for the ’69 draft. Then he finally says to the coach of the time: and pointing at me Like this”.