In this episode of the TGU podcast Frank Risorto sits down for a chat with Ashwin Ballal who has authored the book on Diego Simeone, 'Made in Argentina, Mastered...
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The Story of Papu Gomez, Part I: The Journey to Atalanta
In part I of Wayne Girard's epic journey on the career of Papu Gomez, he retraces the earliest part of Gomez's career, when the Argentine played under Diego Simeone...
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The making of El Cholo: Diego Simeone at Pisa
It is deadline day in the summer of 1990. The pressure is on the President of Pisa, Romeo Anconetani. He had promised a big signing, but none had entered...
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Promotion, salting and Simeone: The story of Romeo Anconetani and Pisa
Born in Trieste in 1922, Romeo Anconetani was the hugely popular, charismatic and superstitious president of Pisa throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Conscripted into the infantry in...
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