In a football stage dominated by Saudi princes, Chinese financial funds, stadium tickets that cost an arm and a leg and out-of-control pay-TV prices, niches of popular, heartfelt and loved football resist, even in Salento. An example of this is the community of Muro Leccese, a small town with just under 5000 inhabitants, which grew up on bread and football.
Refounded a few years ago, GC Muro Leccese has given new impetus to a new football school, historically known throughout Salento, which carries forward the well-founded values of sport and a healthy lifestyle for many children surrounded by a society that now commodifies every anything.
Old emotions caught the eye of many, incredulous of the passion and organization of a small fan base, but enormous especially when compared to the total number of inhabitants of the country.
On Sunday, an almost unexpected salvation was achieved in Group C of the Second Category of Puglia, after a troubled season. The Ultras Muro led by the “Zona Calda 2008” group managed to involve the entire community, an effort of constant commitment throughout the football season which saw their presence in the most remote fields of the Salento province. A mentality, theirs, studded with enormous difficulties, such as the absence of a pitch blocked several times due to qualification work that never started, disappointing team results, often surrounded by distrust and indifference, but which, despite everything, led to a return to sport popular and to the Murese community, through the aggregation and sharing of their fans, that healthy classic football “germ” of children who leave home and run to play in the rain, to score goals, to scrape their knees, to dream…
A salvation for GC Muro, a victory for the entire country and its fans!
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