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Discussion on Football Player Performance
Cuti went to Genoa, and at Genoa, what was happening to him?
They sent him off a lot, or two or three times in a row, and they
gave him lots of cards because he fouled a ton. Atalanta signed him.
He surprised us so much from day one. We said, “Wow, this guy’s brilliant.”
I remember at the time Scaloni was looking for a left-sided center back.
He came to see Palomino, who played with me.
He came, he came to see me, we met and he said, “Come on, Papo, you know,
we’re looking for a center back.”
And I remember telling him: “Take Cuti, because he’s brilliant.”
Knowing that, with Gasperini, he’d also improve.
And in the end, well, he called me up first, then he ended up
calling him up one or two
call-ups later, he, he, he called up Cuti,
whom they had already been tracking
Samuel and Ayala. And Cuti was extraordinary, extraordinary.
I've never seen anything like it. I was always needling him, you know?
I'd poke at that a little. I don't know, we'd be playing against Roma and I'd say:
"Look, today you're up against Dzeko, eh. You won't touch the ball today," I'd say.
"You'll see, today you—Dzeko will eat you alive." "Oh, yeah, you'll see."
Dzeko didn't touch the ball. I remember once we played against
Inter, they had
Lukaku, Lautaro. Today we're playing Inter,
do you know the beating they're going to give you?
Before going out to play, you know. "Today you won't touch one, I don't know,
today I'll destroy both of
them," he'd say. Like that, you know, that's what he'd say.
And, man, that's what happened, he didn't touch the ball.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Cuti va al, al Génova y en el Génova, ¿qué le pasaba? Lo echaron bastante o lo echaron dos o tres veces seguidas y le sacaban mucha balla porque pegaba una banda. Lo compra el Atalanta. Nos sorprendió muchísimo ya el primer día. Dijimos: "Uy, este es un crack". Me acuerdo en ese momento que Scaloni estaba buscando un central izquierdo.
Vino a ver a Palomino, que jugaba conmigo. Viene, me viene a ver a mí, nos reunimos y me dice: "Vamos, Papo, qué sé yo, estamos buscando un central". Y me acuerdo que le digo: "Llévatelo a Cuti, porque es un crack". Saber que aparte con Gasperini va a mejorar.
Y al final, bueno, primero me convoca a mí y después termina convocando, una o dos convocatorias después, lo, lo, lo convoca a Cuti, que ya lo venían siguiendo Samuel y Ayala. Y Cuti extraordinario, extraordinario.
Nunca vi una cosa igual. Yo lo picaba siempre, ¿viste? Le metía el dedo un poco ahí. No sé, jugábamos contra la Roma y le decía: "Mirá que hoy jugás contra Dzeko, eh. Hoy no tocás una pelota", le digo. "Vas a ver, hoy te-- Dzeko te come". "Ah, sí, vas a ver". Dzeko no tocaba una pelota. Me acuerdo una vez jugamos contra el
Inter, jugaba Lukaku, Lautaro. Hoy jugamos contra el Inter, ¿sabés el baile que te van a dar? Antes de entrar a jugar, eh. "Hoy no tocás una, qué sé yo, hoy los rompo todos a
los dos", decía. Así, eh, así decía. Y boludo, y pasaba eso, no tocaba una pelota.
