In a book the story of the Alghero champion Tore Burruni La Nuova Sardegna

Alghero A glimpse of life and history of Alghero. This is “Tore BurruniCampiò Mundial”, the book written by Antonio Budruni which tells the life of the great world boxing champion. A story that could be the screenplay for a film set in the immediate post-war period in a town like Alghero, still wounded by air raids and trying to get back on its feet like its entire population.

Salvatore, known to everyone as Tore, is a child like many others, until he loses his father Giuseppe, who was a greengrocer. A hard blow for his wife Marie Antoinette and his nine children. Tore is the penultimate. At 12, no longer able to attend school for economic reasons, he went to work in the horsehair factory in what is now Piazza della Pace. A difficult life that Tore faces with courage and character. All this is told in Antonio Budruni’s book, since he approached the world of boxing thanks to his older brother Pietrino who already attended the master’s boxing school Franco Mulas.

Among the curiosities told is that of when Burruni as a child, to be accepted into the boxing school, put stones and weights in his pockets and shoes to weigh more. Or the one linked to the great journalist Gianni Minà who started in Rai following Burruni’s exploits. And then the many memories of Rosetta Paulesu, Tore’s wife who passed away a few years ago. «My father Umberto had a particular affection for him that went beyond the relationship between prosecutor and boxer», these are the words of Giovanni Branchini which open the preface of the book that will be presented Tuesday 23 April at 6.30 pm in the Sulis Tower, where after the war, Burruni began throwing his first punches in an improvised boxing gym. In addition to the author, one of his two sons, Gianfranco, the sports journalist Carlo Branca and the presenter will participate Pinuccia Sechi. A long work, lasting ten years of research, interviews and stories, which the historian and writer from Alghero managed to harmonize with period newspaper articles. And April 23 coincides with that fantastic night of April 23, 1965 when Burruni won the title of world flyweight champion.

The date also coincides with International Book Day and the anniversary of Sant Jordi, patron saint of Catalonia. The book was published thanks to the collaboration between the author, the Burruni family and Aps Tore Burruni, an association chaired by Carlo Branca.