Fifty years later, it’s like it was yesterday May 12, 1974. As Il Messaggero reports, yesterday was a day of emotion and emotion, under the transparent gaze of Maestrelli from above. The manifesto of Lazio is still hanging on that finger of Chinaglia, in the lights of the first Scudetto. Just restore memory to the legend.
The initiatives
Rome immediately woke up with a banner on the ring road near Corso Francia which read: “Immortal Lazio, 1974”. Then the real initiatives began at 9.15 with the landing of the Lazio Skydiving on the Tor di Quinto field, where Maestrelli’s team trained, carrying the flag with the words “Thanks to the boys of 74”. One was later revealed plate first in the locker rooms and then in front of the coach’s bust.
Everyone is there: those who were part of that team, Oddi, Garlaschelli, Martini, Petrelli and Nanni, and children and relatives of those who unfortunately left too soon, such as the children of Maestrelli, Wilson, Pulici, Re Cecconi, D’ friend and Lenzini’s grandchildren. Only Chinaglia’s family is absent.
At 10.30am the special stamp inaugurated with Poste Italiane and the quicksilver coin made by the State Mint, of which 1974 pieces are available.
At 11.30 the stadium is already full of fans wearing the shirts revisited by Mizuno. Endless applause to the notes of Lucio Battisti, who also accompanied the reading of the 1974 lineup in full, also with the names of Maestrelli and deputy Bob Lovati. While reading the players mentioned, or their children, are took to the field resuming the position they occupied fifty years ago.
History
A romantic destiny, then tragic, that of Maestrelli’s team. A pulp fiction plot in an epic eleven: Pulici, Petrelli, Martini, Wilson, Oddi, Nanni, Garlaschelli, Re Cecconi, Chinaglia, Frustalupo, D’Amico. The Maestrelli gang is still engraved in a Lazio novel, in a race backwards to May 12, 1974. Fifty years later, the emotion is the same that exploded at 5.47pm.
