posted on: October 19, 2020
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The Serie A side have had to play their home European games away from Stadio di Bergamo for the past three seasons due to insufficiencies with the ground.
Zapata celebrates with his team-mates after scoring the opening goal against Hellas Verona. Atalanta's Champions League fairy tale is continuing. Gewiss Stadium, a Champions League stadium! The ground, recently renamed the Gewiss Stadium for sponsorship reasons, has undergone radical renovation and UEFA confirmed on Wednesday it is now fit for purpose. ", "When you went away from home in my first spell it was like, 'Don't lose. An incredible result, perhaps unthinkable even just a couple of years ago. "People from Bergamo have always been attached to Atalanta.
In the time since, the French giants have won four more titles in five seasons and.
A stunning 8-4 aggregate win over Valencia in the next round meant it qualified for the quarterfinals.
It's a tradition handed down generation after generation, 'La Dea', as it's called here, is very deeply rooted in the spirit of Bergamo.".
To put the disparity between the two clubs into perspective, Atalanta's record signing, Luis Muriel, cost around $21 million when he joined last summer.
It ended in heartbreak as Paris Saint-Germain performed a stoppage-time comeback, but …
They keep the ball for fun; they enjoy it," he said.
Five years ago, as Atalanta avoided relegation from Serie A by just one spot, PSG was winning its third consecutive French league title.
However, the main reason for Atalanta's change in fortunes has come in the form of a 56-year-old from Turin -- Gasperini. You can watch the full 'Triumph through Tragedy: Bergamo, Atalanta and a European Dream' documentary on Copa90's YouTube channel on Thursday, August 13. Gasperini's ability to bring in players who haven't played to their full potential and turn them into productive players, like "any good manager," has been key to Atalanta's success, according to Dorigo. Indeed, the team's manager, Gian Piero Gasperini, has since, Daniele Filisetti, a former Atalanta player who had to use an oxygen mask for 15 days after catching coronavirus, described the situation in Bergamo as a "slaughter. Liverpool will face AFC Ajax, Atalanta BC and FC Midtjylland in the 2020-21 Champions League group stage. Gasperini's ability to pluck perceived underachievers and turn them into some of Serie A's best players has created the backbone for his team, starting with diminutive Argentinian Papu Gomez, the team's captain. The game eventually finished 2-2. "I think he already had one or two important players there, but then trying to fill the gaps and holes around them was difficult when, of course, obviously where they're from -- a town of 120,000 people -- so it's not a big place at all," Dorigo explained. Zapata opens the scoring against Juventus.
Either because Bergamo is small, or maybe as part of a cultural and sporting payback, I'm not sure. A draw is OK.' Gasperini changed the mindset to winning," he, "It doesn't matter who we are playing against, you have to try to win. Bergamo's mayor Giorgio Gori.
"A lot of really good players come through their youth setup down the years," the 54-year-old, who commentates on Italian football for British television, said. "It's devastating. But a remarkable comeback in the final three group games meant it qualified for the last 16, becoming the first side to qualify from the group stage after losing its opening three games since Newcastle United in 2002-03. How FC Barcelona 'lost its soul', READ: Twenty years on after football's most controversial transfer, READ: How Bruno Fernandes transformed Manchester United's fortunes, READ: The mystery of the 1998 World Cup final. Over the last two or three years, they're the most attractive to watch.". Atalanta will be without its own talisman after Ilicic. An incredible result, perhaps unthinkable even just a couple of years ago.
Atalanta have received approval from UEFA to stage Champions League matches at their home stadium in Bergamo this coming season.
", "It bothers me a little when they say we're a physical team," he. More than 44,000 fans, including a large number of people from Bergamo, traveled to the San Siro stadium in Milan -- where Atalanta's Champions League games were being played because of … According to Dorigo, retaining players from the club's productive youth structure -- which has produced Italian internationals such as Giampaolo Pazzini, Riccardo Montolivo and Roberto Donadoni -- has helped. In Muriel, Duvan Zapata and the sublime Josep Ilicic, Gasperini has transformed players who arguably hadn't lived up to their potential. They got there slowly, with a President who is also a former Atalanta player.". (CNN)In a city of around 120,000 people, television stations showed pictures of columns of military trucks transporting the coffins of Covid-19 victims down the empty streets of Bergamo, Italy.
The Serie A side have had to play their home European games away from Stadio di Bergamo for the past three seasons due to insufficiencies with the ground. Although 'La Dea' has finished in a European qualification position in each of the last four seasons, that hasn't always been the case. The official all-clear was given by Uefa in the afternoon of today, Wednesday 7 October. All with the 13th-highest. Atalanta have had to play their Champions League home games at the San Siro, in Milan, because their own stadium did not meet Uefa requirements.
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