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Today is Janloka Viali.

He'll tell you about winning Syria A with Santoria,

but losing out in Europe to his hero, my hero, John Croix, in charge of the dream team at Barcelona. Was there a perceived idea that if you're from Genoa then authorities would be against you or the fans would be against your referies?

Explain what the battle was before you put your boots on.

That's exactly what you just said. I think that you feel like they don't treat us fairly everybody is conspiring against us because we're a small

club we don't send newspapers we are not you know TV shows be different with us, which is wrong because as Lester has just proved

it's great for the game. When you realize that in football nothing is impossible and even a smaller team can be at the top

the championship at the end of the season and it becomes a much more sellable product

in my opinion is more democratic it's perceived as a clean more We felt that that wasn't the case in Italy, so we were playing against somebody, which made us probably stronger.

I don't know whether we were right or wrong to feel as if it was twice as difficult for a club like Somondoria to win the title, but that gives us some extra motivations.

And we used it to our advantage, but I've got to say that when we won the title, we had penalties against the likes of A. C. Milan, Yuventus,

who took them? I took them all. How did it go? Quite well. I was blessed by God.

That season I couldn't do anything wrong. So I scot the more. But if I think about that season now I can feel that everything was on our side. We were meant to win it because we were treated exactly like a big club.

So I don't know whether we deserved it because our performance is probably led the referees to to referee in a certain way.

I understand.

You know if you're always in the penalty box of your opponents you're likely you will win penalties

more than if you're not so I think it was very fair temperature. I have to stop by asking

about the title really I'm not sure if you sealed it but it became an absolute reality

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