Antonio Cassano he always gives statements that spark discussion or at least some curious backstory that has never been revealed. The former playmaker told several of them on the podcast BSMT on YouTubestarting with his relationship with his father: “He left and was in touch again on 19 December, the day after the goal I scored against Inter. From that moment on I said: ‘Perfect. Finished, not I want to have more to do with him.’ I’ve always gone my own way.”
That goal changed her life.
“After the goal against Inter everything changed. I remember that until the day before I was struggling to eat, because I wasn’t earning, they gave me an expense reimbursement of 80 thousand lire because I was playing in the Primavera. Then at the beginning of the season, in July, I they had made the contract for 270,000 lire which today is around €1300, which was already money for me. You find that after that goal they give you a sensational contract full of gold on all sides. What do you do? that is happening to you. It changed my life quickly there. The fact of being born in a particular and difficult environment helped me a lot in a difficult and particular environment such as football or sport you’re a fish in a sea of sharks that want to eat you. When everyone wants to make money, they want to be friends…”
Can you tell us about the failed agreement with Juve and Moratti’s interest before Real Madrid.
“The following season I remember, and Moggi, before having insulted him last year, every time he met me he reminded me that I had an agreement with him for Juventus. He always tells me that it would change my life, but I he would have kicked out after two days. I had the agreement with Juve, but with my agent I went to meet Roma who doubled my salary and I went to play with the idol Totti… I remember that he is there It was a period when Massimo Moratti’s Inter were looking for me at Christmas and the call from Moratti came to my cousin, and that idiot replied: “Yes, and I’m Berlusconi…’. The prosecutor calls me and tells me we’re two idiots. Let’s talk, they offer me a boatload of money. In those days, Ernesto Bronzetti, one of the most important prosecutors at the time, who was a close friend of Florentino Perez, showed up. He told me that Real Madrid wanted me and I didn’t think twice: even if I’m an Inter fan, but when Real Madrid wants you, the team where at the time there were the best players in the world and it was the stronger in that moment… I accepted, I went with a crazy desire, but everything went to pieces because I was overweight, I argued. I scored on my debut, but the problem was consistency. The last time, for example, that Lionel Messi made a mistake in a match there was still money…”.
Tell us how Bobo TV ended and why.
“I have always said to Adani since day one that Ventola and I cannot do this job without him, but he can do it even without him. From this point of view, he has no rivals, he has no comparison with anyone because as nobody does it… he’s a phenomenon. I said in front of everyone that without Lele we couldn’t move forward. Humanly, how did I experience it? Simply put, I used the word betrayal before, which is the thing I hate more than anything else in the world. I don’t care, everything was created thanks to Lele, I was in Genoa and I didn’t care, Ventola did what Adani said. If we moved forward it’s thanks to Lele, then we get there at a certain point where if you push too hard something breaks that can no longer be mended. I no longer want to give importance to that person, for me it’s a closed chapter I’m a good and generous person, he’s a closed chapter. That person over there… betrayal is the worst thing, something I don’t accept in my life. Did you think you were the best? But you were wrong, we continue alone and now he attacks and not even his mother follows him. I didn’t mind, it’s better to notice sooner than later, because after that it’s already too late. Everyone takes their own path, happily. Possible reconciliation in the future? Absolutely not, it’s a closed, finished chapter. For me there is no forgiveness for betrayal. What if I felt bad about it? Absolutely not. Zero. My great suffering was that for a long time nothing else could be done with Lele and Nicola. Because let’s be clear, the broadcast was three-man and Lele was the Messi of the broadcast. The name… it’s just chatter, behind the scenes Lele did everything.”
Who shifts the balance in Italy?
“The only player in Italy who can shift the balance at the moment is Federico Chiesa, who has pace and one-on-one, something that few in Italy have. The rest is zero-to-zero stuff.”
He also worked on Tiki-Taka in the past.
“Pardo called me as a commentator on Tiki-Taka because the Wanda Nara-Mauro Icardi dispute was underway, no one wanted to have their say. Were they all afraid to speak? You see… So he called me and in four and four eight minutes I settled things. I said what I thought, I was the one who did him a favor.”