Better to start from the end, from the last Modena-Como, played at the Braglia on 15 October 2022, ninth round of the 2022-23 cadet championship, won by Attilio Tesser’s canaries with a round 5-1. Great protagonists were Antonio Pergreffi, scorer of the first two goals, and Luca Tremolada, who in that match provided his teammates with four assists, the first two from a corner for the captain’s goals, the third with a cross for Marco’s head Armellino, fourth still from the flag for that of Davide Diaw. The fifth goal was by Luca Magnino after a header deflected by Pergreffi on Edoardo Duca’s corner. Only towards the end did Como score the point which saved some face.
This is the largest success achieved by Modena in the 28 home matches against Como, one in Serie A, 20 in B and 7 in C, of which 11 won, 11 drawn and 6 lost, with 37 goals scored and 22 conceded. There was no shortage of other clear successes for the yellow-blue team. In 1932-33 the first match against the then Comense ended 3-1 with the Canary goals scored by Dante Fiorani, Arrigo Morselli and Vasco Cavani. Two more 3-0 victories in 1958-59, with Cesare Campagnoli, Giancarlo Bolognesi and Adelmo Ponzoni scoring the goals, and in 1959-60, with a brace from the young center forward Ugo Tomezzi, who in the summer would participate alongside Gianni Rivera and Giacomo Bulgarelli with the Olympic representative at the 1960 Rome Games, sharper than the ‘Freccia del Sud’ Luigi Scarascia. The 1-0 victory in 1961-62 with a goal by Enrico Pagliari was important, even if limited. A but fresh from a 2-0 defeat at Bari. Another 3-0 in 1976-77, with a brace from winger Paolo Mariani and a goal from Roberto ‘baffo goal’ Bellinazzi. 3-0 again in 2001-02 with a brace from Andrea ‘Roger’ Rabito interspersed with a penalty kick from Omar Milanetto awarded for a foul in the area on Andrea Fabbrini committed by the future yellow-blue Stellini.
Those at the beginning of the 2000s were characterized by a fiery rivalry between the two teams after the yellow-blue midfielder Francesco Bortolotti had risked his life and ended the game due to the consequences of a punch thrown at him in the changing rooms after the conclusion of the match played on the banks of the lake by Ferrigno, captain of Como. At the time the two teams were on a parallel run: both promoted in 2000-01 from C to B, with Modena first and Como second, and in 2001-02 from B to A with reversed positions. The only match in the top flight at Braglia, on 8 December 2002, ended 1-1, with a yellow-blue goal scored by Giuseppe Sculli, but while Modena escaped, Como slipped to Serie B.
In the photo: the first leg, played in Como on 10 December 2023 and lost by Modena 2-1 with a yellow-blue goal by Zaro.
