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Gian Piero Gasperini: The renaissance man of Italian football

Atalanta B.C. is located at a small Italian town called Bergamo with a population of 1,20,000. Their home stadium, the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, doesn't even meet the requirements to host a UEFA Champions League match and therefore, have adopted the iconic San Siro as their Euopean home.

But playing away from familiar conditions has not hampered their debut run in Europe's elite club football competition. And the credit goes to a certain 62-year-old manager Gian Piero Gasperini, who considers himself to be the Alex Ferguson of Bergamo.

He had a nervy start to his time at Atalanta in 2016.