{"id":4097,"date":"2026-04-17T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:28:07","slug":"gian-piero-gasperini-breaks-down-during-emotional-roma-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"Gian Piero Gasperini breaks down during emotional Roma press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">1<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Serie A side Roma have become a vehicle for controversy in the last few days. This is because of the cold war involving Gian Piero Gasperini and Claudio Ranieri.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><\/p>\n<p>After the manager questioned a lot of the upper management\u2019s transfer decisions, the chief advisor countered it on Friday. He made it clear that every signing was approved by Gasperini, who also made his opinion known about players that weren\u2019t signed.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Gasperini was present at a presser ahead of Roma\u2019s upcoming Serie A tie. <strong>Corriere dello Sport<\/strong> note how he broke down towards the end, recalling how tense the last week has been and claiming that he has never been a bad person.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201c<em><span dir=\"auto\">If I spent almost eight years in Genoa and nine in Bergamo, I\u2019m not such a bad person.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Further describing the atmosphere at Atalanta, he said: \u201c<\/span><em><span dir=\"auto\">Atalanta wasn\u2019t just about young players or kids. It was a group of experienced players, which was then expanded, integrated, changed. But they weren\u2019t just young players.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span dir=\"auto\">\u201cThat was an extraordinary thing, not just thanks to me, but also to the club. At a certain point, this club was so capable of working in harmony with the coach. At a certain point, this harmony, partly because the club had changed, partly because my father, to whom I was certainly closest, was no longer there.<\/span><\/em><span dir=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about his discussions with Ranieri, revealing his views about his rant on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span dir=\"auto\">\u201cBecause we\u2019ve never discussed things in that tone. Normal discussions.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gasperini left the press conference room crying, appearing rather uncomfortable after a difficult week for him and the club. It is something Serie A has never seen before.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_mid_content - mid_content --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_mid_content - mid_content --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kaustubh Pandey I GIFN<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsitaly.com\/2026\/gian-piero-gasperini-breaks-down-during-emotional-roma-press-conference\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 \u00a0 Serie A side Roma have become a vehicle for controversy in the last few days. This is because of the cold war involving Gian Piero Gasperini and Claudio Ranieri. After the manager questioned a lot of the upper management\u2019s transfer decisions, the chief advisor countered it on Friday. He made it clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-giocatori-italiani-allestero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}