This is only Giampiero Ventura’s biography, a firm person, grown up being aware of his necessity to be arbiter of his own life. Everywhere he has left something personal. That’s well known in Pistoia, his first important lap as a coach after the first steps in the juvenile field of Sampdoria, in which he managed to arise the society together with his friend Mario Frustalupi and then with the president Maltinti. “At that time it seemed to play football in a great family” he tells “we succeeded in taking 10000 supporters to the stadium while they were only 100 at the beginning”. From then on he felt the ideas of “re-building, programmation, organized football”. In fact, after the humanly unbelievable experience in Giarre, he took part in re-launching Lecce with Semeraro group. Being part of the social context, Ventura consecrated in Puglia his ability of “re-builder”, following totally the society’s administrational philosophy and becoming sometimes a “breaking man”, as he often describes himself. Two promotions in a row but more than that, programmation, show and plus-valuation. Then in Cagliari he reached his top. He held a demoralized island, reduced to B championship, and he brought the team and the territory in the major championship together with the president Cellino’s complicity. He re-valued and discovered footballers with consequent thrill and pride for the Sardinians, whom he built a strong relationship with, feeling one of them.

 Afterwards heart won against rationality because he went back to his Sampdoria’s cadet team, refusing another purpose in A championship. Wearing his childhood’s colours, he took the team to one single point far from the promotion. A “defeat” which still makes him sad as he has disappointed the deepest love of his life. This is Ventura, too. His last presence was in Udine, where he held the team in December 2001 after Hodgson’s management. The relationship with Friuli and the “friulani bizarres” – as Ventura call them – was contrasting: difficulties with misunderstandings and then gratefulness with smiles. He always believed to be in a region similar to Sardinia but the difference was the lack of thanks. He left Udine with his usual dignity, being aware of his presence in a town where he would hardly ever have developed his principles. On the other hand, he found people who learned to admire him as a man and then as a coach, because, behind the coldness present until the Udinese’s salvation, it was hidden his catching will of living and laughing, his self-irony which leads him to always accept new challenges, even though when the contexts are complicated. However remember he is from Genoa..