Il Trap
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00:00 19 years of his life at AC Milan and 13 years of his career at Juventus.
00:06 There were also 5 years of Inter bench, but with 32 years in total, red and black.
00:13 The parable of the trap can not be undefined, especially Milanista and above all Juventina.
00:19 AC Milan was life, because when you start in a club at 17 and leave at 37, it can not be just a profession.
00:28 It is also growth, youth, first experiences and therefore life.
00:33 At Juventus it was a career, because there the pressure of results began, the adventure of the coach, the real one.
00:40 The hard adventure, that of the goals, the results at all costs, the lightning-fastness with respect to the moods of everyone.
00:47 He started to show off in Milan in 1956 the trap and he stopped training, really and really Tottenham, the Irish national team, in 2013, the trap.
00:58 Much more than a life, and in any case it was much longer the coach's parable, which started to think about it well, when the trap was still a player.
01:07 Since, in the summer of 1971, Milanello had an idea.
01:17 The Joan, because the trap was the Joan, while the unforgettable Giovanni Lodetti was the Joanin.
01:22 He has no more after so many years and wants to be a coach.
01:25 So I send him to Varese and exchange him with Riccardo Sogliano, who runs all over the pitch.
01:30 And then, in a year, the trap comes back here to learn the job of the coach.
01:35 A good idea, right trap?
01:37 We were on tour in America when the news came and I asked Lumi Arrocco, he said "Arrocco, but I read that ..."
01:48 He said "Yes, look, don't worry, because they made an exchange with Varese and Sogliano, but I ..."
01:53 "Go there for a year and say, I don't want to go away anymore, because I think I'll continue in Milan in the Joan sector, so don't worry, because this exchange is important for us."
02:03 "But if you decide to come back, I'm here."
02:07 And in fact he kept his word.
02:09 I left Milan, it was a bit of an unlucky year.
02:12 I left, I asked to come back, they kept their word and in fact Rocco took me to be his third behind Maldini.
02:20 So it was ... I have to thank him again now, I say some prayers to him.
02:26 I am very grateful to him and I must say that it was my luck, because from there with Maldini, then there was Juve, then there was everything else.
02:34 On this occasion, the trap spoke from Milanello, from CT della Nazionale Azzurra.
02:39 And it was no coincidence, because he is the great, unforgettable, I said.
02:44 They were called the "cocorite" by Rocco, by Rivera and by the rest of the team.
02:49 In short, they always spoke.
02:51 The "cocorita" is the Australian parrot, a kind of parrot that never stays quiet.
02:57 Once caught by the Curva Sud Rossonera after a Milan-Juventus-San Siro in which he trained the Bianconeri, the trap came out with all its load.
03:05 "Please, explain to those guys there, who are shouting at me in the curve, explain to them everything I did with this shirt, with that shirt there, that of Milan, everything I gave for the Rossonera shirt."
03:16 Because the Rossonera trap was a lot of stuff, a lot, a lot.
03:20 As well as the historian, journalist and telechronist Bruno Longhi, who, if he cannot be called the biographer of the trap, little is missing.
03:28 Giovanni Trappattoni, simply the trap, is a boy from Cusano-Milaneno who makes you Juve,
03:34 but who after a couple of trials begins a very long story with a black-red shirt that will last for 15 years.
03:40 He is the average of the "garbati" ways, from the dry advance, he does not play by force but with the brain trying to anticipate in advance the ideas of the opponent.
03:49 He plays almost on tiptoe, capable of being a marker but if necessary also a director or a finisher.
03:56 He is on the field a sort of coach, he interprets Rocco's thoughts and sometimes he foresees it,
04:02 even replacing him as it happens in the final of Wembley '63 against Benfica,
04:07 coinciding with the first historic success of an Italian team in the Champions Cup,
04:12 when he decided to exchange duties with Benitez, appeared in difficulty against Eusebio, already the author of the goal of the advantage.
04:18 It's all perfect because Milan will turn the disadvantage upside down with two goals of high end.
04:23 Trappattoni is the one who touches the difficult score of the 22-year-old Cruyff in the other final, won with Ajax in '69.
04:30 However, he is never a man with a cover, we talk little about him,
04:34 much of Rivera in Golden Boy, the golden ball and those who throw it in.
04:39 But he is a coach on the field and Rocco, to whom he is inspired, knows it.
04:44 After an experience in Varese, he will start that one on the bench, starting from the youth of Milan
04:49 and being the vice of Rocco himself in the final won against Leeds in '73,
04:54 replacing him, the word was disqualified, in the fatal Verona a few days later.
04:59 A bitter defeat, but also the beginning of an enviable career.
05:03 The Milanista Trapp is great, a technician who was very close to being the first coach of Milan Berlusconi.
05:10 Then, instead, other roads, the rig, the visionary football, the football of the future.
05:17 A derby that Trapp has always kept alive, because he too has always felt young,
05:23 charged and innovative, even if they called him a traditionalist.
05:29 As it was with Juventus, which in 1976 looked inside and Trapp was the new one that was advancing.
05:35 In '76, Granada celebrated the Scudetto point by point in the city and the Bianconeri chewed bitter,
05:41 as they said once. And even Boniperti had a good idea, like the Baron Rocco five years earlier.
05:47 The Bianconero symbol knew how fragile the foundations of the Milan society of the time were
05:53 and had noticed, instead, how well he had done in a difficult and unbalanced context.
05:59 Trapp, in the 1975-76 season, had managed to bring the Rossoneri to third place,
06:05 all alone, without a real president, with the whole environment reduced to disillusionment,
06:10 the "boutiques of Rivera". Yet the exuding technician, "Giovan", had managed to pull straight and keep hard,
06:17 with wrist and spirit. This is when, as Bruno Longhi remembers well, the "Bianconero" Trapp was born.
06:24 We are in 1976, Trappattoni, after the experience in Panchina with Milan, has already signed for Atalanta,
06:31 perhaps in memory of his Bergamasco origins. But Boniperti, who maintains privileged relationships
06:37 with the president of the Nerazzurri, sees in Trapp, of whom he was a team mate and a national,
06:42 the profile suitable for relaunching the "Bianconeri" ambitions.
06:46 Just a phone call and, from that moment, Trappattoni and Juventus begin to form an indissoluble and winning pair.
06:55 The squads will be six, starting with the first in 1977, which coincides with the conquest of the UEFA Cup,
07:00 first international title of the "Bianconeri", they will win, subsequently, also the Champions Cup and the Cup-Cup,
07:06 resulting in the first coach in the world to judge the three major European club events.
07:12 In 10 years he won everything, also the Intercontinental in Tokyo in 1985 and,
07:17 also in his second adventure in Turin after five years at Inter, he will enter his third UEFA Cup.
07:23 Trappattoni has two great qualities, to be still today the most winning coach in Italy and to be transversal,
07:30 loved by everyone, Juventus, Milanese, Inter and Fiorentina, in short, the most loved by the Italians.
07:35 As coach of the first Juventus of the decade 1976-1986, Trapp had lost only one Scudetto against Milan and, for the rest, he had always won.
07:46 But that Scudetto was that of the "Red-Black Star" and Trapp knew how much the Baron Rocco of his prayers was holding us from above,
07:53 and then he would have made us above, a smile also him.
07:56 But in his second Juventus cycle things went in a very different way.
08:00 Three years in Turin, from 1991 to 1994, and three Scudettos won by Milan,
08:06 who on the bench had a practical and winning coach who remembered Trapp a lot,
08:11 that is Fabio Capello, who was, not by chance, a Juventus player.
08:18 He won a Scudetto and a UEFA Cup also at Inter, Trapp, but his career is more than anything an interlacing between the "Red-Blacks" of Milan and the "White-Blacks" of Turin.
08:27 There is, in fact, a match to be noted, that of March 1976, Juventus-Milan.
08:34 In previous seasons, the "Red-Blacks" always lost to the municipality of Turin, but that time there was Trapp on the bench of Milan,
08:42 with the first half that ended 1-0 for the "Red-Blacks" thanks to the goal of Tato Sabadini.
08:48 Juventus managed to draw at most and ended 1-1.
08:52 Boniperti saw everything, realized everything, and the very long career of Mr. Trapp probably began in that Juve-Milan.
09:01 Not by chance, a match that Tato Sabadini, the goal scorer, tells in a testimony,
09:08 under which you can feel the waves of the Calabria Sea, where Sabadini lives.
09:12 Waves that symbolize the various times of football that come and go, while the records of Trapp's experience remain indelible.
09:19 They had just operated my son and, as a result, I was four hours away from this room.
09:26 Then when they told me that everything went well, I went into the room, I took my son in my arms and I told him,
09:33 "Tomorrow we will play with Juve and I dedicate you a goal".
09:37 And in fact, I scored.
09:40 Then in the end he drew with a hat.
09:43 But it was a match that we deserved.
09:47 And it was a goal.
09:49 [Music]