When Fiorentina were finished – the Gori story

Golazzo: The Totally Italian Football Show

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🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on Golazzo, Jimbo, James Horncastle and Gab Marcotti examine one of the most notorious owners in Serie A history – Cecchi Gori. An Oscar-winning producer turned eccentric football club supremo, life under Gori for La Viola was a rollercoaster from 1993 to 2002. Batistuta, Laudrup, Effenberg, Rui Costa – all players that Fiorentina fans could enjoy. They also got relegated and went out of business. Plenty going on in Serie A. We discuss the European draws for Juve and Napoli. And is Gianluca Vialli about to return to Sampdoria? RUNNING ORDER: • PART 1: Cecchi Gori’s legacy and background (01m 00s) • PART 2a: Gori begins life as Fiorentina owner in 1993 (06m 00s) • PART 2b: All-star Fiorentina relegated in 1993 (10m 00s) • PART 3a: Fiorentina promoted in 1994 and enjoy success (12m 00s) • PART 3b: Fiorentina top the table for 22 weeks in 1998/99 (15m 00s) • PART 4a: Gori’s financial problems begin – divorce, bad business moves and cocaine busts (17m 25s) • PART 4b: Electoral fraud for Gori and bankruptcy for la Viola (22m 00s) • PART 5: Was there a plot against Gori and Fiorentina? (27m 00s) • PART 6: Serie A round-up – Milan derby, Juve & Napoli’s Euro draws and Vialli returning to Sampdoria? (31m 00s) GET IN TOUCH: • find us on Facebook, where you’ll find video, photos and loads of other stuff. • send us a tweet: @theTotallyShow • for sales and advertising email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golasso!
0:11.0	Today on Golasso, the extraordinary story of Vittorio Chequigori, Oscar winning film
0:16.6	producer Fiore Piarantina Padron who himself ended up in the can. We relive the Cal show
0:22.3	the Campioni the nine keys of cocaine and
0:24.6	was there something darker behind his downfall or just his own dumb decisions?
0:28.4	Plus, Inters Darby win, Euro Cup draws and Gold Twins.
0:33.6	As Manchua prepares his new Italy
0:35.2	is Genalukoviali, heading back
0:36.7	to their old hunting ground, Sam. Gol Lasso! Michelangelo Dante, Dante, Vittorio Czech Igori and the cultural pantheon of the Renaissance
1:10.0	City Florence.
1:11.0	These names figure so very, very large.
1:13.6	Gabrelle Marcotti and James Horncastle with me today, just a few strains there of
1:18.9	La Vite Bella.
1:20.4	It's a beautiful life, the Oscar winning film produced by Vittorio Chequigori.
1:25.0	Or his wife, Rita Rousich.
1:27.0	Of whom, more later?
1:29.0	The extraordinary figure of Vittorio Chequigori who comes up as a subject today of Golazzo because he's kind of I guess an
1:36.7	archetype of that strain of Italian club owner that figures so very heavily in the
1:41.2	80s and 90s and now has been basically just driven out of the game by
1:46.8	Massimo Fellero? Oh yeah that's good shout but is he really in that ballpark? I mean the tansies the cragnotes the check Igories I mean is the
1:55.4	closest now fair I don't in that regard but yeah I mean check Igori has everything
1:58.8	checki Gory even has things that differentiate them from cellinoen or Zamperini. In many ways he's more of a kind of I don't want to call him a pound
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