When there are now just over forty-eight hours to go Olympiacos-Fiorentinathe Corriere dello Sport exalts the purple passion: “Florence is made into three“, this is the headline we find in the local sports newspaper, to underline the purple tide that will occupy three areas. There will certainly be the 9,000 in Athens, but also the 30,000 present at the Franchi to watch the match from the giant screens. everywhere in the city (details here), but especially at Viola Park, where another 2 thousand fans are expected. more than 40 thousand purple hearts will gather to push Vincenzo Italiano’s team to a historic goal.
The defeat suffered against West Ham still doesn’t stop hurting twelve months later, if possible it has raised the emotional content of the wait – which is not the pleasure itself, just to paraphrase a famous and apt advertising claim from a few years ago – writes the Corriere dello Sport. Not in this case at least and from a footballing point of view it will only become so with a Viola triumph. And so this is already a good reason to turn on Florence, such is the desire to put the Fiorentina name up there above that of all the others: a possible victory would be welcomed as a liberation, because it would allow the Viola club to bring back an international trophy 63 years after the last timea (we are talking about the three most important competitions in the UEFA context which over time have become the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League), and then it was the 1960-’61 Cup Winners’ Cup.
