December 8th, 1999
So many jokes with the photographer, Toldo is the favourite target

(a. cap.)

«We played the best joke on Toldo: the photographer needed the sweat-effect and we were busy 
with the vaporiser. But we filled it with iced water and we poured it on him ten times with 
the excuse that we had to take the photo again because he never had the right expression.
In the end he didn't buy it anymore, he got up and went to get a bucket filled with water
to throw it at us»: it is one of the many memories told with a smile by Silvano Maioli and
Nicola Bosio, AIC secretary and PR-manager, who took care of the realization of the calendar
and took appointments with the players and accompanied the photographer Marco Carč in the
changing rooms all over Italy.
And then: «For Maldini's picture the smoke-effects were used. Ramaccioni and Ganz hadn't
realized what was going on in the aisle and got out of the changing rooms asking for help
for the fire. Del Piero, then: a real star. Appointment at 6 o'clock and at 6 o'clock there he
comes in the Coverciano changing room where he was with the national team. Incredible, he knew
alreasy all the slang and technical language of the photographs and staff,»

Taken from La Gazzetta dello Sport
www.gazzetta.it/lagazzetta
English translation by Maddalena (www.acfiorentina.net/enricochiesa)