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Yahoo
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- Sport
- Yahoo
This Week In Lazio History: June 23-29
Between June 23-29, Lazio won in European tournaments, fought to reach a national final, drew a playoff, and won both the Fornari Cup as well as the Cup of the Alps. Matches of the Week Date: Sunday, June 24, 1923 Venue: Campo Oncino, Torre Annunziata Fixture: Savoia Lazio 3-3, Southern Division Final, First Leg Lazio draw against Savoia in the first leg of the Southern Division Final. The Biancocelesti can still reach the National final. Advertisement Date: Sunday, June 23, 1929 Venue: Stadio San Siro, Milan Fixture: Lazio Napoli 2-2, National Division, 8th place Playoff Playoff for first ever single Serie A ends in draw so rematch needed but more surprises were on the way Date: Sunday, June 26, 1932 Venue: Campo Testaccio, Rome Fixture: Roma Lazio 0-3, Coppa Fornari Final Lazio beat Roma for the first time in the Coppa Fornari final with a Fantoni I brace and Malatesta. Date: Sunday, June 27, 1937 Venue: Stadio PNF, Rome Fixture: Lazio Hungaria 3-2, Round of 16, Central European Cup Lazio go 3-0 up and then resist the visitor's attempt at a comeback. Advertisement Date: Saturday, June 27, 2020 Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome Fixture: Lazio Fiorentina 2-1 A goal by Luis Alberto eight minutes from time gives Lazio win and hope Match In Focus Date: Friday, June 25, 1971 Venue: St. Jakob Stadium, Basel Fixture: Basel Lazio 1-3, Cup of the Alps Final Unknown to the players, club, new manager, and fans – this is where the glory started. It had been an awful season. President Umberto Lenzini and manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo had argued all year over basically everything and the team suffered the consequences. Lazio had finished 15th which meant relegation. Lenzini had already chosen Tommaso Maestrelli as new manager for the following season but at the end of the current season they had to play the Cup of the Alps and for this competition Bob Lovati took over. Advertisement This was the 11th edition of the cup. It was a competition between Italian and Swiss sides. This year eight teams took part, divided into two mixed groups. The A Group was made up of Lazio, Sampdoria, Lugano and Winterthur. The B Group had Varese, Verona, Basel and Lausanne. The formula was that each team played the foreign team in their group twice (so no matches between Italians). The highest-placed Italian and Swiss teams would then qualify for the final. The points were calculated from the points from the four matches added to the goals scored. Lazio had reached the final, winning three games and drawing one. Their opponents were Basel, the holders of the cup as they had won the past two editions. They were considered a decent team, had some good players in Karl Odermatt, Walter Balmer, and Peter Ramseier, and had a highly respected manager in German Helmut Benthaus (who would later win the Bundesliga with Stuttgart in 1984). They had come second in the Swiss league (would also win it the following year) and reached the Last 16 in the European Cup (lost to eventual winners Ajax). The Biancocelesti scored early with Pierpaolo Manservisi but the Swiss equalised towards the end of the first half. Despite a referee, who clearly had eyesight problems, Giorgio Chinaglia scored a brace and Lazio won the cup. A great satisfaction for the club after a difficult season. It was certainly not the European Cup or UEFA Cup but it held some prestige at the time. The Biancocelesti had performed well and the win was given great emphasis in the local and national media. Advertisement Serie B awaited but with today's triumph, the new manager Maestrelli and President Lenzini's promise not to sell Chinaglia to Juventus the future looked brighter. And it certainly was. In Memory: Renato Ziaco The 1973-74 scudetto, as we all know, was made possible thanks to a wild and talented bunch of players managed by the maestro Tommaso Maestrelli. But, behind the scenes, there were also others who made that miracle possible. Among these we must certainly place Renato Ziaco, legendary doctor of that team. Renato Ziaco was born in Rome on February 20, 1927. At 23 he graduated in Medicine with specialisation in orthopaedics. In 1960 he was part of the medical unit at the Olympic Games. In 1961 he was called by Lazio to substitute Professor Domenico Bolognese. Ziaco worked for the Biancocelesti for 25 years. He was not just a doctor, he was a psychologist and an innovator. The team went to him not only when they were injured but also when they simply needed a word of advice or encouragement. He was able to magically cure players who thought they would never play again, or others who overnight suddenly became available even if it had seemed impossible the day before. Once he even went on the bench as manager. In 1963 Juan Carlos Lorenzo could not sit on the bench during matches due to the fact that he was not Italian, and a couple of times when Bob Lovati was sick or suspended, it was Ziaco who had given the tactical orders. Advertisement Ziaco was one of those who was not able to celebrate on May 12, 1974. He was performing surgery on Gigi Martini's fractured shoulder. He was also the first to notice that Tommaso Maestrelli was not well, and the one who desperately tried to save Luciano Re Cecconi after he was shot. In the early 1980s after the Totonero scandal, he briefly left the Lazio medical unit, only to return when Giorgio Chinaglia became president. On January 7 1985, he slipped on the icy track at the Olimpico and fractured a rib. At the hospital they realised he had cancer. He died on June 25 of the same year. Renato Ziaco was a heroic, legendary character, a true gentleman and Lazio supporter. Birthdays This Week Alessandro Varini, 24-26-1900, forward, Italy, 66 appearances, 12 goals (1914-25) Pedro Rizzetti, 25-6-1907, midfielder, Brazil, 45 appearances (1931-34) Pietro Adorni, 25-6-1949, defender, Italy, 52 appearances (1966-69) Vincenzo Gasperi, 27-6-1937, defender, Italy, 149 appearances, 6 goals (1961-66) Piero Cucchi, 27-6-1939, midfielder, Italy, 71 appearances, 4 goals (1967-69) Pierluigi Pagni, 28-6-1939, defender, Italy, 185 appearances, 1 goal (1960-68)
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
‘Aamir Khan said throw them out': Mansoor Khan recalls firing Milind Soman from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, says original cast made life ‘miserable'
Often described as an unofficial remake of the 1979 American coming-of-age classic Breaking Away, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar has long been associated with its supposed Western inspiration. But director Mansoor Khan, in an exclusive conversation with SCREEN, reveals that the roots of the film are far more personal. 'The film is actually semi-autobiographical,' Khan shares. 'A lot of Aamir Khan's character, Sanju, was actually derived from my own life.' Recalling his early years, Khan says, 'I dropped out of MIT and came back from the US, and when I came back, I was a lost soul. And basically, I was feeling this guilt, that I had wasted so much of my parents' money. And now I was acting like an angry young kid who's angry with the whole world, but actually, he should be angry with himself.' Before Jo Jeeta, Khan channeled these feelings into a video film. 'So, I made a video film, actually, about a guy who just wants to laze around. It was a full one-hour-forty-minute film with two songs and background music. The first film to be made on video, I'm talking about 1982.' The film, titled Umberto, ended on a rather unconventional note. 'It was a tragic ending, because the guy is so useless that by the time he straightens up, the girl he likes. and who loves him, he loses her to his arch rival, Umberto. And he's the guy who works, earns, and is the responsible son and all that. And these two guys live one above the other. And the guy was called Amole. In the film, Amole himself played the character, Amol Gupte. And the Amole character was exactly like me. So basically, that was the premise. And then later that premise evolved into Jo Jeeta. See, Jo Jeeta is not a cycling film, say like Breaking Away. The idea was not to have a cycle race or any kind of race. Jo Jeeta, for me, is an awakening film.' While speaking about Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Khan also admits the film came dangerously close to collapse, largely due to his own casting misjudgments. He reveals that nearly 60–70% of the film had to be reshot after early choices in the cast proved disastrous. 'I cast a bunch of people, and it was my mistake. It was the wrong cast,' Khan admits. 'I actually feel I should write a book on Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar. That's the one film where everything felt like fate, a true child of destiny. So many amazing things happened. Strangely, everyone who initially came into the project, for one reason or another, I rejected the right ones and picked the wrong ones.' Those decisions soon took a toll on the production. 'We shot for 40–45 days in and around Ooty, Coonoor, then came back to Bombay and shot a lot more, including the songs. But I could see the film was going nowhere,' he recalls. 'I won't take names, but those people were absolutely unprofessional. They made life miserable, not just for me, but for the entire crew. The film was turning out really badly, and it also nearly stalled.' At his lowest point, Khan even considered abandoning the project. 'I felt like giving up. But the film's story is about getting up and winning. So in a way, life was mirroring art,' he says. 'We stayed quiet. We threw those guys out. They went to the press, said all kinds of nasty things about me and Aamir. But we didn't respond. Our focus was clear, we had a film to make, and a good one. And in the end, the result is in front of you.' Also Read | Aamir Khan was the 'bad guy' of Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikandar who won, Deepak Tijori's character was better: director Mansoor Khan Ironically, many of the people he let go tried to return once the tide turned. 'Some of those same people came back to me later, including Milind Soman,' Khan reveals. 'They didn't understand filmmaking. They didn't understand humility, or the director's role, or that the film is bigger than any individual, bigger than the actor, the director, or the producer. They came in with strange ideas. But again, the mistake was mine. I shouldn't have cast them.' The turning point came when Milind Soman exited and Deepak Tijori stepped in. 'Why I call it a child of destiny is because Milind went out, and Deepak came in. Deepak had actually tested with Milind. But Milind got the part, based on his looks and physique. I wasn't making casting decisions properly back then,' Khan confesses. What ultimately saved the film, Khan says, was the support of Aamir Khan. 'The person who pulled me out of it was Aamir. He said, 'Throw these guys out. We'll make a good film.' I was in a really dark place then, depressed, on the verge of a breakdown. I used to wake up in the middle of the night crying during the shoot.' Despite the ordeal, Khan says he holds no grudges. 'I don't dwell on it. I just say: Fine. You did what you did. You lost a good film. You lost credibility. You didn't respect me, or the film, and that always comes back around.'
