Sometimes you go in such a short time, from the most beautiful dreams of the worst nightmares do not even have the opportunity to ask or explain why : everything happens so much that suddenly lucid and plausible answers becomes nearly impossible. One moment you're proudly wearing the captain's armband on your nationality and the next moment you find yourself thrown into the midst of the bombing, forced to kill an imaginary friend groped for the purpose of saving thousands of others. Heedless of the fact that you are seriously in danger of losing the most precious thing, life. War and sports, apparently, have nothing in common. Excessively unjustifiable, absurd and distressing the first, healthy, exciting and often a source of pride and the second aggregation. In this story, however, the fate of a person to whom the football world was ready to give satisfaction and business has been brutally interrupted by a piercing of the two World Wars Set aside by history. There is talk of Virgilio Fossati, Milan Ticinese, born in 1889 and heroic captain who in 1910 won the first championship of his now century-old saga, a title won just two years after the founding of the Beloved, which occurred March 9 1908, at a restaurant four steps from the Duomo. The man-symbol of the newly formed Inter team was precisely this mustachioed young man, passed by for hours kicking a pile of rags knotted during the hot summers Po, being chosen in 1909 by President John Paramithiotti and affiliated to the Milanese team.
A nineteen year old who appeared at the reality of football despite the art pedatoria still appear as little more than a novelty for the entire country, attracted by the curious British fashion called "football" was the beginning of the twentieth century, a 'time is spent where the Alps on horseback, the laundry is washed by the river and where they would have triggered a short impetuous winds of hostility. Folate, which in 1915 brought the median Fossati to abandon the obligations for competitive racing at the front: a front of which came from second lieutenant before being appointed as captain a few months later, but from which it never returned. Victim of the Austrian army along the northeastern border.
generates anger to think that, just weeks before the Italian involvement in the Great War, Virgil had undertaken to deal with - and beat 3-1 - Swiss selection. The five thousand spectators, leaving the stadium that day in Turin, had the eyes of the Italian victory and head a bit 'less burdened by the serious situation that was surrounding them: one of those occasional joys of shocking that only "the beautiful game in the world" can offer. Of this game was and started out as one of the first talented players: ninety-seven appearances and four goals against Inter (a company that in 1928, ten years after his untimely death, the field titled Via Goldoni) to be added to the twelve chips - and a network - with the national team, where he became the first athlete to land Inter. It was in fact him, on a Sunday in May 1910, the only Inter player to take the field against France, the Arena Civica in Milan, for the first race of the absolute Azzurri (then held in white): just a scoring midfielder Lombard contributed all'ingente a 6-2 final success and to "set the tone" to a never-ending story that, in many cases, would assume the fascinating contours of the legend.
(Published on 26/01/2007 in the magazine Weekly Sportfoglio )
Virgilio Fossati
Born in Milan on 12/09/1889
Midfielder (and, at the same time, coach)
at Inter from 1909 to 1915
Total attendance-gol: 97-4
Wins: 1 title (1909 / '10)
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