(Adnkronos) - E' una bellissima storia piena di Italia quella di Javier, negli anni '90 gli argentini guardavano il campionato italiano, e per lui arrivare qua, giocare nell'Inter e diventarne capitano è un viaggio, potenzialmente puoi essere colto da vertigine, lui no. Così il giornalista e scrittore Federico Buffa in occasione del talk show Fair Play Menarini – I campioni si raccontano svoltosi a Firenze presso il Salone dei Cinquecento di Palazzo Vecchio durante il quale Federico Buffa ed Omar Schillaci hanno intervistato il vice presidente dell'Inter Javier Zanetti.
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00:00What do you think about the Italian football?
00:05I have to celebrate because you rarely meet a player of this type in any sport.
00:12It's a beautiful story, full of Italy, because it's the son of a family from Pordenone, Sicily to be precise.
00:22He was telling me that in the 90s the Argentinians watched Italian football and not their league, because apparently the stars of the world played here.
00:34For him to come here as an Italian, to go to Inter and then become the captain, gentlemen, look, it's a journey.
00:41It's the world tour in 80 shirts, it's really difficult.
00:46You're potentially taken aback, but he's not.
00:51I think that the day of his departure, at 41 years old, which is a lot, even because he played a number of minutes,
00:58really at San Siro there was not a blink of an eye, because it's part of your life.
01:03You are a captain who for 20 years has honoured the shirt in that way.
01:07I see it from the point of view of my team, but I can understand what it is on his part.
01:12I was happy to be able to celebrate it.
01:15It's a great spot for Fiorentina.
01:19There's the current mayor.
01:21There's also the mayor.
01:23The legend is Inter, like Zanetti and Borja Cavallero, who gave a lot.
01:27The fantastic thing is that you come from Castile, where the Madrilenians feel at the centre of the world,
01:32and he sold all his properties in Castile to come to Florence.
01:36Now, I understand that Florence has a terrifying charm all over the world,
01:39but the Madrilenians are proud of who they are, of having dominated the world.
01:44I said to him, I'm interested, I want to stay here.
01:47This is my life, I decide.
01:49My wife thinks the same as me, and she's another one who comes from there.
01:53I want to stay here.
01:55This is my dimension.
01:57It doesn't usually happen with the Spaniards.
01:59Tomorrow, the story of a player for Fiorentina.
02:02What could it be?
02:04I've already had the pleasure of meeting Gosens,
02:08who really took my heart away.
02:11He's one of the most amazing people I've met in the world of football.
02:16Apart from the fact that he speaks Italian better than me, for sure.
02:21Sometimes he makes a mistake with his accent,
02:24in the sense that he shifts the accent of a syllable,
02:26but his Italian is perfect.
02:28It's perfect.
02:30Dutch...
02:33German...
02:35Because half Dutch, half German.
02:37From the Dutch, he took the fact that they are citizens under every sky.
02:41From the Germans, he took the fact that he is rigorous.
02:44In my opinion, he wanted to make an amazing mix.
02:47And the fact that Fiorentina took it at the last second,
02:51it really fell into his arms,
02:53and then they realized they had brought it home, it's fantastic.