Giovanni Barbagli, MD.

Fate un fermo immagine sulla faccia di chi per vent'anni si è auto-proclamato "il club degli onesti" e ha campato sul finto perbenismo. Con l’inchiesta #Interopoli che si allarga a macchia d'olio e l'accusa pesantissima di frode sportiva in concorso, lo spettro dell'Articolo 4 e della retrocessione diretta non è più una fantasia da social: è un incubo reale che sta facendo scappare tutti. E infatti, il castello sta venendo giù a una velocità imbarazzante su tutti i fronti, sportivi e societari. 💸La nave imbarca acqua e i partner commerciali scappano a gambe levate pur di non affondare con il brand. Persino Bper ha tolto la sponsorizzazione! Chi vuole associare il proprio nome a un club che rischia l'illecito sportivo? ❌ I giocatori, per un motivo o per l'altro, stanno rifiutando il trasferimento sotto il Duomo. Strano, eh? Evidentemente nessuno ha voglia di firmare per una società con la Procura alle porte e il destino sportivo appeso a un filo. 🤡 Come ciliegina sulla torta della disorganizzazione, dopo aver visto il talento Palestra volare dritto al Chelsea, l'Inter ha pensato bene di annullare l'amichevole estiva contro l'Atalanta. Totale caos interno o pura paura di rimediare una figuraccia storica sul campo nel bel mezzo del terremoto giudiziario? Hanno festeggiato scudetti di cartone seduti al tavolino della segreteria e vissuto protetti dal silenzio complice dei media amici. Ora rischiano di andare a giocare nei campi di provincia perché non hanno resistito alla tentazione di alzare il telefono e dettare la lista della spesa al designatore. Preparate le valigie e compratevi un navigatore per le trasferte di serie cadetta. Stavolta non ci sarà nessuna telefonata amica a salvarvi dal baratro! 🧳🤫👋 #Interopoli #Marotta #FrodeSportiva #SerieB #CaosInter #Bper #Palestra #Atalanta

Soccer is weird. There’s no shortage of optimistic takes about how “bright” the future is for soccer due to the World Cup exposure…but nobody is really acknowledging the obvious core limiting issue: soccer is just a weird sport here. If you choose to play soccer over football, basketball, or baseball (or hockey in certain areas), it’s just a weird decision. You’re voluntarily choosing a smaller market with less attention and lower earning potential. Unless you have some sort of outside factor motivating you to choose soccer over something else, it is simply not a rational choice to make. The opportunity cost to a promising young American athlete choosing to play soccer is tremendous. If you play football or basketball at a top-tier US college, you basically have the best life possible. You can earn millions from NIL, you play in front of tens of thousands, you’re a celebrity, you have groupies, you get a degree without actually having to do any school work…you are living the best life possible for that stage of life. If you play soccer, you have a fun fact to throw out at parties to introduce yourself to people who have no idea who you are. Of course, the obvious exception here is if you forgo college to go try and make some European soccer team…which carries a risk:reward profile that is untenable for most American families. If you play a college sport, you get a degree whether the sport pans out or not. If you fly out to Europe for a few years and then it doesn’t work, you are left empty handed. So for most Americans, saying yes to soccer means saying no to the tremendous advantages of more prominent sports; it’s simply not a decision most rational top-performing athletes make. You end up with a situation where the only people who play soccer are the people who either have some kind of unique external variable pushing them toward it (like a niche interest or a foreign family applying pressure), or those who have simply fallen back to soccer after not succeeding in a more prominent sport. This leads to a scenario where “soccer player” does not exactly carry an “A-list” connotation, which makes it less socially advantageous to play the sport, and ultimately creates the overall sentiment where soccer just feels kind of “weird.” As an observer, I wish this wasn’t the case; I wish we had as strong a presence in soccer as we do in the other sports to really see how we stack up against global competition—but it’s simply not realistic. In order for that to happen, it would require massive foundational changes to the social structures and incentives that funnel talent to different sports in our system—essentially amounting to reversing the flow of Niagara Falls. So as much as I would love to be a soccer optimist with an eye toward “revenge” in 2030, I think our time is much better served accepting US soccer for what it is and leaning instead into what we do best.

Pensate che vita di merda quella degli interisti: costretti ogni anno a sperare che una squadra perda 6-0 una finale di Champions

Buona la prima Luciano! Adesso, torniamo a casa e mettiamoci al lavoro. Siamo la #Juventus e non abbiamo ancora fatto niente più di quello che andava fatto: vincere! #CremoneseJuventus #Spalletti

Hot off the press publication in Operative Neurosurgery from @UNCneurosurgery ! We are proud to continue our leadership in surgical video education at the @UNC_SOM . Our team is redefining how we capture wide-field spinal oncology and deformity cases for resident education. This publication provides a comprehensive review of our methodology, detailing how we capture the fine nuances of these highly challenging operations. Examples of video capture from en bloc sacral #chordoma resection and correction of adult idiopthic #scoliosis are shown. Through this departmental initiative, we have successfully built a curated digital repository of surgical videos. Our resident team can seamlessly access these resources from any mobile device to prepare ahead of complex cases. Sincere thanks to my medical student apprentice, Daniel Faraj , and our incredible illustrator, Mark Schornak , for the immense value they added to this project. Watch & Read the full publication here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ journals.lww.com/onsonline/f… @CNS_Update @spinesection @NeurosurgeryCNS #neurosurgery #orthopedics #meded