BRUNO PESAOLA A metà degli anni '70 gli allenatori di calcio avevano ancora dei soprannomi. C'erano infatti il
Patron Nereo Rocco e il suo palla avanti e pedalare; il
filosofo Manlio Scopigno che vinse lo scudetto del Cagliari con Albertosi e Giggi Riva; il
Mago Helenio Herrera e il
Mago di Turi il mitico Oronzo Pugliese.
A Bologna c'era Bruno Pesaola detto "Il Petisso".
I remember him in blue suit and takes to cross Savoldi during a workout and then get on the sideline, light a cigarette and chatting with fans and journalists. But I prefer to entrust a portrait of the character to an article written by Tony Damascelli, in my article describes how extraordinary this unforgettable humanly de rossoblù coach, who also gave satisfaction to the different Bologna (Italian Cup).
Good reading.
The voice of the little guy is just a breath, almost a gasp. Beginning. The years are those that are, to be precise eighties, still beautiful. The voice, after one, two, ten words stretches and turns in the sing-song of all time, a scoundrel, "estronsa. Bruno Pesaola is the little guy, our local translation of a more bizarre 'El petisso. The fact is derived from its cm tall, were useful for the fake, dribble and go to the cross. Then he used it to hide in the reeds, that is on the bench, pretending, waving his left arm, to ask his players to take the attack, but with the right arm, held down, threatened them to stay at home defense. On the eve of a match with Bologna Atalanta Bergamo, a reporter asked him what kind of tactic being used: "And silly alatàco as seempre," explained the little guy to Baires. The next day, the Bolognese barricaded themselves in their own half fino all’ultimo secondo per stabilire lo 0-0. Il cronista di cui sopra, avvampato nel volto, scaricò la sua rabbia sul Petisso: «Lei ci ha preso in giro, lei è venuto a Bergamo pensando che siamo stupidi, spieghi perchè allora il Bologna ha giocato in difesa, al contrario di quello che lei aveva detto!». Pesaola allargando la bocca a fetta di cocomero replicò: «E se vede che la Etalanta ci ha rubato la idea».Questo era, questo è ancora, a parte i graffi dell’età, i dolori che lo hanno costretto a rinunziare ai quotidiani quattro pacchetti di sigarette «soltanto perchè costano de più, etrooppo», al bicchiere di whisky «l’ho innaffiato», alle nottate al tavolo de la Sacrestia, con il golfo di Napoli alle spalle, l’acqua di mare davanti alla quale una notte disse a Josè e Omar, al secolo Altafini e Sivori: «Questa è come una vacca con tre tette, prendetene una, io mi tengo la più piccola e cercate di non litigare». Mettere insieme un argentino con la capa grossa, cabezon, e un brasiliano coniglio e furbo («avete mai visto un centravanti che non si sia mai fatto male nella sua carriera?»), metterli insieme non fu impresa facile ma il piccoletto ci riuscì, riuscì a vincere scudetto e coppa Italia, a Firenze, a Napoli, fece grandi cose con il Bologna, città che un po’ gli apparteneva, come Napoli del resto, per via di quel gusto per l’ironia and wicked sarcasm. When the Bologna Le Busche, Pesaola ran to the door of the room of the dressing room, leaning with one hand against the jamb opposite, creating a sort of low arch under which players would move to force them here and apostrophes: "And complimèèènti Bulgarelli, Perani and complimèèènti complimèèènti and faithful. " The flagellates bowed his head, horned and clubs. This was Pesaola Bruno, a man of football without being a champion, came from Argentina ("I had 21 years') where his parents had emigrated from Montelupone, land of Macerata. His father was a shoemaker, whose name was Gary, his mother in La Coruna carrying a sweet name, Inocencia, the union made him "native." Their contemporaries who drink football tivvù point out that the Petisso lived with Piola and Schiaffino, Valentino Mazzola and Di Stefano, Pele and Maradona, so when I heard him speak, while his eyes roll and they are very black olives, review goals and dribbling , headers and studs on the legs like those of Gimona, a good person who broke the tibia and fibula Palermo Bruno forcing him to drop to the Rome that had taken him from Argentina. Those were years of pain. Pesaola recalls that for him, as for many other Argentines and South Americans of the time, Italy was the country of poverty, "Today the reality is reversed." 
He made the trip with a thousand calls to the contrary, he made sure the salary of Rome ("120 thousand a month plus bonuses, all tax free, the salary of a skilled worker was 30 thousand) in advance to be paid to the mother because it had finished pay for the house after Gary had gone to the Eternal Father. When dad was hit by Gaetano Ornella, wife of Bruno, he changed the very existence of Pesaola, alone and lonely, with its thousands of cigarettes, whiskey, the Gulf of Naples, the only friendly voice of Roberto Diego, son and philosopher and director. Eighty years have not been useless, the Petisso shaking his left arm, calls for to attack, waiting for the right to close the door: "The Eternal Father will call me sooner or later. But not only myself. " I feel the smell of tobacco and whiskey.
Tony Damascelli
For 'accuracy did Pesaola Bologna coach for 4 consecutive years, winning two 6th places, a 7, an 8 and an Italian Cup after a hiatus Napoli returned under the two towers for two years but with a little team 'scarce.
