But they have already won, by being there.”, That is how it feels to the city, too. 5. But for the city as a whole, a city that has suffered a lot, it offers hope.”. Many, though, have chosen a different way to express support: a flag with a field striped in Atalanta’s Black and Blue, and the words “Grazie, Ragazzi.” Thank you, boys. A CITY'S SOLIDARITY. 8. GRAZIE, RAGAZZI. Si chiama Claudio Galimberti, di professione giardiniere, 38 anni spesi in gran parte per i suoi nerazzurri. La lettera del Bocia a Percassi sulla situazione che sta vivendo la città di Bergamo: “Ora esultare per un gol di Gomez non ha più senso” Con una lunga lettera Claudio Galimberti – il Bocia, storico leader della Curva Nord – ha chiesto al presidente Percassi che la stagione dell’Atalanta possa finire qui, che la stagione riprenda o meno. That game was the 19th. “It was an important donation, but so too is the love that they have shown,” said Maria Beatrice Stasi, the director general of the Pope John XXIII hospital. Shops have strict limits on the number of customers allowed to enter. Still, for Atalanta to find itself on the cusp of a place in the final eight of the Champions League, ordinarily the preserve of the continent’s impossibly wealthy elite, defied football economics. Gori sees an echo of Barcelona’s status in Catalonia in Atalanta’s role in Bergamo: The team is an expression of, and an outlet for, a broader civic identity. Claudio Galimberti, detto “Bocia”, ha scritto una lettera molto sentita al presidente del club bergamasco, nella quale si chiede di fermare la squadra Il Coronavirus sta ancora contagiando decine di migliaia di persone e ne sta uccidendo molte altre. As Bergamo’s mayor, Gori and his son had been invited to watch the game in the directors box. 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The hospitals were overwhelmed. “Just as there is a Daspo for violent football fans, we need a Daspo for [...], Divisione Stampa Nazionale — GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A. - P.Iva 00906801006. Published: 12 Aug 2020 03:45 PM BdST “Lots of people wanted it shut down, but those two hours during a game, when we had been inside for months, were a relief,” Pezzotta, the fan who organized the bus trips, said. This text is translate of great interview that Claudio "Il Bocia" Galimberti (leader of Curva Nord Atalanta) gave to Bergamo local TV station in year 2009, after he got 5 years ban. Italian flags still flutter from windows and balconies. It was fans who raised 60,000 euros in donations (more than $70,000) for the Pope John XXIII hospital — the money they would have spent attending the return match in Spain against Valencia, the game that was one of the first in Europe to be held behind closed doors because of the coronavirus — and the ultras who commissioned an artist to produce a jersey thanking the medical staff members for their dedication. Updated: 12 Aug 2020 03:45 PM BdST, Mayor Giorgio Gori at his office in Bergamo, one of Italy's hardest-hit cities during the coronavirus pandemic, Aug 3, 2020. A great tide had made the short journey from Bergamo, the prosperous, pretty city where the football team is based, to Milan for the first leg of their Champions League, round-of-16 tie against Valencia. Non riesce a farla franca nemmeno il capo della tifoseria bergamasca, rientrato per “un lutto e per aiutare in Fiera” “Sono qui per un lutto per aiutare in Fiera”. To Gori, the mayor, the link is even more direct. It was hard to believe it was happening at the time. 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Gennaro De Tommaso, known as Genny the scumbag, leader of the Napoli fans. Così si è giustificato Claudio Galimberti, conosciuto ai più come il Bocia, che è stato pizzicato dalla Polstrada al casello autostradale di Seriate. Alessandro Pezzotta, a fan who organizes buses for away games, had arranged 10 coaches. “The traffic just never seemed to stop coming.”. Handfuls of tourists, barely a fraction of the numbers that might have been here in another time, wander the cobbled streets of the city’s upper town. “It can be a sign of the rebirth of the city. He wants them to go forward, constantly, to score goals, to entertain. But it can also be known for Atalanta.”. Then there is the “bocia” (kid), longtime leader of  the Atalanta fans, Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti 42 years old and collector of around twenty Daspo. Dodicesimo in Campo intervista Claudio Galimberti (il Bocia) a pochi giorni dal termine di alcune delle misure cautelari che lo hanno colpito nel recente passato. Festa se lani nije održala iz protestnih razloga, pošto je legendarni vođa Atalantinih ultrasa Claudio Galimberti, poznatiji pod nadimkom Bocia, završio iza rešetaka uslijed prijetnji upućenih šefu policije. Quickly, memories of that night in San Siro seemed to drift and fade, as if it had happened in another world. After the game, he texted Gian Piero Gasperini, the manager who had brought Atalanta here, to congratulate him. Of course, Gori said, it is common sense to assume that “it was certainly an episode that contributed to the acceleration of it: all those people in the same place, whether it was at the stadium or gathering at home or watching it in bars.”, But, he said, nobody could have been expected to have known. [...] of “names that refer to a past that seemed behind us”. 10. In 1998, under the leadership of Claudio “Il Bocia” Galimberti members fromNuova Guardia, BNA, WKA and later the whole of Nomadi came together to formdell’Atalanta Supporters (or Curva Nord Atalanta). Typically, the atmosphere among the executives is a little more restrained than it is in the stands, but that night was different. Then there is the “bocia” (kid), longtime leader of the Atalanta fans, Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti 42 years old and collector of around twenty Daspo. Repression in Italy since then get even worst, you can read more about it here . La Repubblica published a rogues gallery of ten of them, although there are many more. Njega je napisao Claudio Galimberti zvani Bocia, čovjek koji je u Bergamu, ali i diljem Europe, poznat kao neprikosnoveni dugogodišnji vođa Atalantine vojske ultrasa.Bocia je sebi osebujan tip, vjerojatno se radi o jednom od najpoznatijih ultrasa u Italiji. In March, Claudio Galimberti, who is known as il Bocia and is the leader of the club’s ultras, wrote to Atalanta’s president urging him not to consent to completing the season. (Alessandro Rota/The New York Times) Ovi se susjedi baš ne vole: Povratak najbrutalnijeg, zaboravljenog rivalstva. 3. Politicians are talking about introducing a raft of measures, including lifelong Daspo bans. So who are these thugs around the country who are calling the shots in the “curve” (the ends of the stadium where the diehard fans congregate), intimidating clubs, players and peaceful fans alike? Fabrizio Fieni head of the Genoa Ultras: ordered Genoa players to take off their shirts after they were defeated by Siena. 2. Everyone knows where Bergamo is, for this tragedy. As the pandemic ravaged Italy in general, and the province of Bergamo in particular — Gori, the mayor, sadly noted that his city had become known as the “capital of COVID” — the greatest victory in Atalanta’s history, what had seemed at the time to be a night of joy and wonder, took on a far darker connotation. So, too, does the heart motif that caught on at the height of the pandemic, complete with the last three letters of the city’s name capitalized, a play on the word love: BergAMO. But we need to think of what comes after, too. “It was the last day when we did not worry.”, Fans of Atalanta watch the football club's last Serie A match of the season in Bergamo, Italy, Aug 1, 2020. Atalanta became the framework through which the city responded to the crisis. Il leader della curva atalantina Claudio Galimberti, detto ‘Bocia’ Bergamo, 26 marzo 2020 - L’Atalanta si ritiri da questo campionato per rispetto dei troppi morti di Bergamo. In jail for drug dealing. Massimo Galli, a virologist at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, had suggested that gathering 40,000 fans together in such proximity had been an “important vector for contagion.” Fabiano Di Marco, the chief pneumologist at the Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo, where he and his colleagues fought to save as many of the virus’s victims as they could, described it as a “biological bomb.”, In Bergamo, though, nobody held the team — or football as a whole — responsible for the unfolding tragedy. It had, in truth, scarcely even contemplated it. Tada su završili na posljednja dva mjesta pa su se još iduće sezone dva puta sastali u Serie B. Od tada, Brescia i Atalanta čekaju na međusobni sraz. Giancarlo "Sandokan" Lombardi, head of Milan’s "Curva Sud”, has a criminal record for theft, grievous bodily harm and attempted murder. To Fabio Gennari, a journalist who has covered the team for years, the return of Serie A felt like “a push back toward normality.”. 6. 4. Claudio Galimberti Bocia. weblog, thanks admin of this website. Now, though, it can work as a metaphor for Bergamo, a reminder that it is possible to come back, to overcome the odds, to emerge stronger from a time of struggle. “We were hugging as much as if we had been stood on the curva,” he said, as Italians call the ends of the stadium where the most devoted fans gather. He has spent lockdown writing a book with his colleague Andrea Riscassi on Gasperini’s revolution: Its title is “The Atalanta Fairy Tale: Between Dreams and Reality.”, He cannot rule out that its conclusion may yet involve winning the Champions League. Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, 47 years old, leader of Lazio’s Irriducibili (Indomitables). Claudio Galimberti detto 'il Bocia' leader degli ultras dell'Atalanta. Too many families have lost a parent or a brother or a sister. Il Bocia is well known within the Ultra circle, infamous for his fearless and violent past. But as the case of Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti clearly shows, Daspos are collected like badges of honour and often have little effect. It is even harder to believe it happened now. “But identity is more important when you have that international outlook. Claudio Galimberti Bocia. In the last few months, it has served as a flag to rally around. Bergamo can be known for COVID. “Per Claudio, con Claudio”: tifosi in marcia a sostegno del Bocia. The next day, a second case was confirmed in Alzano Lombardo, only a few minutes outside Bergamo. 1. Giancarlo "Sandokan" Lombardi, head of Milan’s "Curva Sud”, has a criminal record for theft, grievous bodily harm and attempted murder. Pezzotta regards that night — Feb. 19, 2020 — as the apex of a lifetime spent supporting the team.