Glorie Granata
The voice is raised by the former Granata players who all without distinction ask that Torino emerge from the anonymity it has experienced for the last 19 years and they said it bluntly on Wednesday when about sixty of them flocked to Philadelphia for “The Legend Match” organized by Vertigo Spettacoli together with the Former Granata Footballers Association and the Museum of Grande Torino and the Granata Legend to raise funds to bring the Museo del Toro to Fila. The match also saw him on the pitch Artists & Friends Granata and they too made the same request. AND even those who couldn’t be there when they were interviewed tune in to the same wavelength.
Whether some expressed themselves with more decisive and colorful words or others preferred softer tones, the substance does not change and from the stands the fans who arrived en masse shouted to their unforgettable idols “you are the real Bull”. Because even a large part of the Granata fans would like Torino to finally go back to being the one that, perhaps, didn’t win the scudetto, but that still placed itself in useful positions in the standings to compete in the European cups, at the time there weren’t 8 teams like today but much less, or in any case he managed to win the derbies and honor the shirt and the history of the Granata.
At the “Match of the Legend” there were plenty of big shots: from Claudio Sala to Enrico Annoni, from Pasquale Bruno to Angelo Cereser, passing through Renato Zaccarelli, Marco Ferrante and Natalino Fossati, without forgetting Luciano Castellini, Diego Fuser, Dino Baggio, Luca Fusi, Silvano Benedetti, Moreno Longo, Antonio Comi, Rosario Rampanti, Franco Semioli, Nello Santin, Luca Mezzano, Andrea Fabbrini, Ezio Rossi, Antonino Asta and many, many others. And also among the Granata artists and friends who wanted to be at the Fila were Jimmy Ghione with his son Gabriele, also a Toro fan, Marco Ligabue, Dave and Luca from Sensounico, Oscar from Statuto, Marco Berry, Fabrizio Voghera, Dario Lambardelli from Rimozione Koatta , Riccardo Bacigalupo, great-nephew of Valerio from Grande Torino and also a goalkeeper, Massimo Wuoz and the list goes on very long so much so that it is impossible to mention everyone and nobody feels bad about it.
Well now a new cycle begins at Torino Fc with Ivan Juric and his staff leaving after three years with two ultimately unsuccessful attempts to bring the garnet colors back to Europe. A new coach will arrive and there will be a summer of more or less passion following the many transfer rumors that have been circulating for some time, especially for the possible departing Torino big names: above all Alessandro Buongiorno, the only which everyone unanimously recognizes as the heir of the Glorie Granata. Nobody is asking President Cairo to sell out or to set up a team that wins the championship, but former footballers, artists and fans want a team that always fights on the pitch and is able to achieve a goal without stopping in mid-table. A team that doesn’t think it’s good for 18 clean sheets and then, as a counterpoint, plays 17 games without managing to score a single goal. That maybe they win a derby, the last time dates back to 26 April 2015 and the previous one even on 9 April 1995. That they don’t lose or draw with those who are relegated or fight to save themselves, that the players are worthy of the History of Toro, perhaps trying to know it at least a little, and not insult the fans.
In short, everyone wants the new coach to be given a team without risk players in good time to prepare it, suited to his game and complete in all departments and which also has suitable reserves, perhaps sacrificing some good players but reinvesting what has been collected to improve the current squad. And if we then added to this the Museum at Fila, a nursery that returns to producing players who either stay or go on to play in Serie A and a well-structured club that embodies the Granata values, it really wouldn’t go amiss.
Pulcinella’s secret is: starting from the Granata values you can get back a Turin capable of going beyond floating, as taught by the History of Toro and those who were part of it.
