"Let me explain the god of us ultras"
journey through the violent football
PAOLO BERIZZI
"The fight is our drug. All ultras seek confrontation. It's something inside you, you climbs gradually approaching the game. When you get respect in a city that is not yours. Or when they get their opponents on the road, because there are already ten o'clock, in front of the stadium. It is the defense of your territory . The desire to beat the enemy. Make him understand that you command here. But - says "Bocia" the chief, one of the priests of the new rite curvaiolo - the battle comes not from the crime, comes from passion, from the heart. It must be fair, not a disgrace. If you are not a ultras do not understand this thing ever. Indeed, it makes you sick. Instead, we try to pass it along to our values, shared or not. This is the life we \u200b\u200bchose. So we will live as long as there ".
To enter the" Cove, "as they call them, the monotheists of typhoid, you have to climb an iron ladder climbing on the side wall of a car dealership. Pass a glass door plastered with stickers and Inter here is a human wall, a solid mass of boys in jeans and jacket as soldiers gathered in a large room decorated with murals and flags and scarves and big pictures that tell the history of organized cheering atalantino. Suddenly, an eerie silence engulfed by six.
a silence broken only by the words of the head. The "Bocia", aka Claudio Galimberti, 35, face and ways to provincial Braveheart, gardener, the leader of the Curva Nord dell'Atalanta. At the "Cove," sort of a pagan temple, the Pasdaran stadium is indoctrinated on the main topics of his faith and his existence in the limit. The term "presence" to do, and times of trains and buses, collective, banners, media and criminal trials, drugs are "good" drugs and "not good", organized by supporters of "odious repression," of "infamous journalists." All mute. Heavy smell of smoke. Workers. University spoiled children. Employees. Unsuspected professionals. Unemployed and people who Sgobba 15 hours a day, and if there is to follow the team in Palermo on Monday it's back to the factory after passing through Italy.
There is also a woman, a door purple hair to his shoulders. Bocia sits in the center. Around the Board: a dozen people, the lieutenants. All curves have a leader and a board. Elections without primaries. And thousands of soldiers. Divided into sections, each with a task to be pursued: choreography, fights, travel arrangements, reports (usually complex) and with Digos police. A hierarchical system, closed like a clam, water-resistant exterior. "So, now in the tens of travel ...": Bocia instructs children on how to deal with an exodus "Hot". When Atalanta plays outside his ultras are almost always welcomed in a manner not exactly friendly, they know that it is, after all, often do not ask for better. "Keep your eyes open and no bullshit," is the advice to use. "Because when you crash you have to have the right mindset. If an opponent falls to the ground do not have to punish him. You have to respect it. And do not use knives or bombs. The problem today is that violence has reached even higher levels. You never know who encounters. What do you can happen. There are groups that run with the gun in his pocket .... "
Yeah, the gun. And Gabriele Sandri, and roadside restaurants, and the policeman, and the revolt of the banlieues stadium: speak with the followers of typhoid and before you scroll through the images on the last Sunday bestial. The ultras who together with colleagues from Bergamo Milan fans attack police outside the stadium (they played in Bergamo Atalanta-Milan), who exercise their executive power by requiring him to stop playing. This is known as: breaking through the glass wall with a drain that separates the curve from the pitch. "There was so much confusion. Maybe the manhole cover was a mistake - admit Bocia - block all but was a moral duty: and we did, albeit controversial ways. The stock had to stop and Sandri, as has been stopped for Raciti.
is a rough and wild world of the ultras. To know him from within, to understand the logic informs, anarchy, drifts incendiary, I should go to see up close: Do not be impressed by the harshness of certain faces, certain scenes. And then the tone, the habits and comradely carbonaresche that mark the preparation of the "game". What seems normal to them, you seems "off." You can pack the same flag in the stone-throwing against a train and the collections for schools in Rwanda? The bolted down the street and raise funds for muscular dystrophy? And traveling for fifteen hours on a train like cattle car, taken over by a theory of armed police and escorted into the middle of a city on a bus with barred windows with wire mesh and finally, if all goes well, kept inside the stadium for two hours over the game and sent home even after taking a stone on his head or put a baton? 500 or 600 will be here at the Cove. " Two or three meetings a week. A mini army in permanent service on the steps of a curve on fire, feared extremist respected. Hit as many others in a hail of "Daspi", the measure that forbids violent supporters caught in the act of attending sporting events for a period ranging from 1 to 3 years.
For incidents of 11 November came seven arrests. The president Ivan Ruggeri dell'Atalanta pointed the finger at the corner: "I do not want to see criminals at the stadium." The statement was also signed by players, but three days later, between some embarrassment, they pulled the brake, "We isolate the violent, but does not criminalize the Curva Nord, which has given us and gives us a lot." "It was the least they could do a bit ...", he now says' sardonic Bocia. "Now, however, we will stop for a while ', we need to close ranks, but does not change our mentality." The atmosphere you can breathe like a Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club and even hooliganism, English writer Cass Pennant, but here at the Cove, at least here, there are punches or kicks. If anything happens that punches and kicks are planned or comment. "In addition to the faith for the team, the most important thing for us is respect - said the leader of the North - It also means than clash. Indeed, it is the base. "This is the first time a head ultras puts us face and recognizes that" yes, we have the mess we look for them even when I'm gone. Romanists, purple, garnet, genoani: with all these fans want to beat us. Thus, there is nothing to do. "He's one of those who can not go to the stadium. The next is his twelfth championship warned." On and off, obviously. "Sundays playing football: Top Bonate first class. And here some trouble if you pull him. As on September 9 in Cologno Monzese. A hundred ultras Inter's preparing an ambush. They are there to avenge an assault on their train to Bergamo, the 2006 championship -2007. Against Coach Bonate start of stones and bottles. On board there are also women and children. But mostly he's there, Galimberti. "Our world is also made of these things. Sometimes it proves your superiority singing louder than the others. O present in large numbers in a posting. If we go to Naples and one thousand kilometers in 500 maybe we throw bombs on the paper, But as enemies know that we are respected. "
curve atalantina was once "red". In the 80s it was filoleghista. Time is now strictly "non-political." Six thousand ultras. Thousand hard-core, you need wherever and however. Living for the team to cheer. As Danilo, 41, laborer. One of the colonels. "The mentality ultras "is disappearing - he says - There are curves that have shaped the history of this movement that no longer have codes of conduct. They have disgraced for Commercial Affairs, is shooting for a handful of free tickets, send the kids out with knives. This is shameful. "
The followers of the Goddess (the goddess Atalanta), defined as love, have fewer friendships (Ternana, Cosenza, Eintracht Frankfurt, Caves) and a lot of rivalry. With practically all the fans. The ultimate social event is the Feast of the Goddess, the homage to the "totem" Atalanta. "Every summer we make 10 000 people per night. They are the players, those of today and those of yesterday. You drink beer and sing standing on the tables," explains Daniele Belotti, 39 of which 33 in turn, City Council and Regional League ("but the policy has nothing to do"). He wrote a book, Belotti, "Atalanta our mad love", which explores 35 years of typhus. "The North was once considered a hotbed of violent and marginalized. Today, in its efforts involving tens of thousands of Bergamo. People who first looked at us with a certain detachment and fear."
"Bocia" Galimberti listens, nods, torments his beard. Then he uncorks a beer. He says he has a fixed idea in his head: the Neapolitans. "If the Interior Ministry does not prohibit the posting, they look at Bergamo. We're going to them, sure, unless the State allows him to." He will not be there, but will know everything from the first the last minute. Because the curve has a lot of radio. Which put together form a kind of large uvula undisciplined. Bocia stands up, hands it to Daniel and the Ceres, beating the rhythm with your hands open drum, which is launching a resounding chorus's Cove: "A-ta-ta-lan ... olè. Shortly thereafter, mo 'of liturgical litany, a loud part of Bergamo, Bergamo ...". A city to defend, where a hundred cities "gain respect".
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