😂 Spalletti’s 5️⃣ most iconic memes: blunders, strong men and a chicken 🐔 | OneFootball

Luciano Spalletti returns to Serie A after two and a half years: a comeback that brings with it many iconic moments, some of which have become part of Italian football Internet history.

Whether it's "Twitter Football" or the memes we see on IG, Spalletti (just like Allegri) has been a factory of memes and famous quotes. Let's look at 5 of the most remembered moments on social media.

Cioni's Chickens and the Snow White Duck

If we go back to October 23, 2016, after Roma-Palermo (4-1), a journalist asks a question about the environment around the club, investigating Juan Jesus's performances. The response is nonsensical: "The problem is that Cioni's chickens need half a kilo of corn. Cioni is the one who lives near me in Certaldo... satisfying answer?".

Still on the agricultural theme but without any malice is a historic video of Spalletti, in his shed in Certaldo while feeding biscuits to his duck: "Her name is Snow White and she only has biscuits for breakfast... slowly!".

"What emotions... what the **** is he saying?!"

In June 2011 during his time at Zenit Saint Petersburg, Spalletti draws a match at Dinamo Moscow's home due to a goal conceded after injury time had already expired. In the post-match, they talk to him about "Emotions" and the coach snaps:

"Emotions? What emotions?! What the **** is he saying? 4 minutes of injury time, 30 seconds for the substitution: 4:30. If things are done regularly, everything falls into place. Why did he make it last 20 seconds longer? Because he likes it that way! I've already said that he (the referee, ed.) doesn't like me and today he showed it again".

Greetings in Russian: "dobroye utro palich"

On March 21, 2020, Luciano Spalletti remembers his time in Russia and gives a "gift" to “Palich”, the historic photographer of Zenit. A birthday message that the club publishes on Instagram. The intention is noble, the result is "AI before AI".

"It could be... it's definitely chest!"

In February 2019 after a 3-3 draw in Fiorentina-Inter, Spalletti argues with Fabio Caressa in the post-match about the penalty awarded to the Viola in the 101st minute: all due to a suspected handball (which was actually chest) by D'Ambrosio.

Spalletti criticizes the account of the incident: "I heard you when you were commenting on it... It could be, it could be, it could be, it could be. It's definitely chest!". A phrase repeated many times that has become a cult.

"Strong men, strong destinies. Weak men, weak destinies."

Among Spalletti's countless maxims on life, the most famous is certainly: "It is not in the stars that our destiny is preserved, but in ourselves. Strong men, strong destinies. Weak men, weak destinies. There is no other way."

The phrase is a reformulation of a dialogue from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune: omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures".

The first time Spalletti pronounced it in a shorter form: "Strong men, strong destinies. Weak men, weak destinies" was in 2016 after a Roma match with Atalanta.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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