Paradisiac Rossoblù, the euphoria of a city, the many anniversaries of this magical year and the fans’ desire to celebrate. The sporting rebirth of Bologna and the European horizon now seem to be sealed, but in Mottalandia, the fort of magic, everyone is focused on the present, on the next 5 matches: On the club’s agenda at the moment there is only football played.
The day of remembrance at Modernissimo
The party box is still completely blank and if it is filled it will be filled in due time. Despite the ‘pressures’ coming from outside Casteldebole – when? Where? Piazza Maggiore or Piazza VIII Agosto? – they are all returned to the sender. And, knowing Thiago Motta, but also the low profile of the club, it is useless to insist: just wait. The Municipality does the same, natural partner of the possible end-of-season party as well as of the Dall’Ara restyling project (which advances one point at a time and not three like Zirkzee & co). In the meantime we can calmly talk about other celebrations linked to historical anniversaries. In particular of the evening already decided at the Modernissimo on June 7th to remember the last scudetto won in ’64 with the play-off against Inter at the Olimpico, right where yesterday the rossoblù defeated Roma. An appointment that would have taken place regardless of the team’s results this season. Together with Bologna, the director of the Cineteca Gianluca Farinelli, the sports councilor Roberta Li Calzi, the history teacher Riccardo Brizzi and the mass media expert Roberto Grandi are building the event. The highlight of the evening will be at 9pm with a lineup yet to be finalized as well as the audience of guests which could also see this year’s protagonists on stage.
The black and white game of ’64
Furthermore, it is not excluded that Modernissimo will dedicate its entire matchday schedule to that legendary championship season. There is no shortage of archive materials, the archives of memories are rich, as are the journalistic and non-journalistic testimonies. For example, it is possible that we can see the ’64 match in black and white again, this time on the big screen with the competent and syncopated commentary of Nicolò Carosio (who in Bologna, on 1 January 1933, from the then Littoriale made the first radio commentary of a match of the national team against Germany, 3-1). Other black and white images shot at the Olimpico could also be added but 50 years ago, another anniversary, when Bologna daringly won its second Italian Cup against Palermo on penalties with the ‘old’ Bulgarelli on the pitch as the protagonist. Other historical dates to remember will follow, but not immediately: next year there will be the centenary of the first scudetto won against Genoa and in ’27 that of the football inauguration of the stadium, even if the ribbon cutting took place the year in which the of Mussolini who a few hours later suffered the famous attack attributed to Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot by the Duce’s loyalists. But as Motta likes to repeat: one match at a time, therefore one event at a time.
