‘Sfumature di Azzurro’, the traveling exhibition of the Coverciano Museum, inaugurated in Bologna

‘Sfumature di Azzurro’, the traveling exhibition of the Football Museum which will stop in the Emilian capital until June 4th, was inaugurated this morning at Palazzo D’Accursio, in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna.

The city of the ‘two towers’ will in fact host the memorabilia of the Coverciano museum until the day of the friendly match between Italy and Turkey – which will be played at the Dall’Ara stadium. This is an exhibition that is part of the protocol signed with the Emilia-Romagna Region and which follows the exhibitions already held in Cesena and Ferrara on the occasion of the two Under 21 challenges, and which was inaugurated today in the presence of the president of Football Museum Foundation, Matteo Marani.

The times. The exhibition can be visited at Palazzo D’Accursio (Piazza Maggiore 6, Bologna) free of charge until Tuesday 4 June continuously from 8.30am to 6.30pm (entry will only be permitted from 10am on Sunday 2 June).

The memorabilia on display. The exhibition retraces the Italian adventure at the European Championships: a story that starts from the triumph in 1968 – shown through Sandro Salvadore’s shirt and the pennant of the final with Yugoslavia – and which passes through the other European Championships hosted by our country, in 1980, told thanks to Roberto Pruzzo’s shirt. Then a leap to Euro ’88, with the competition ball and the Italy-Spain pennant.

And again: the near victories at the beginning of the 2000s, with the shirts of Vincenzo Montella and Andrea Pirlo to witness the finals reached in 2000 and 2012, up to the Azzurri’s last continental success, at EURO2020, with the shirt of Gianluigi Donnarumma, voted best player of the competition.

Since the European Championship is in Germany, it is impossible not to refer to the World Cup won in 2006 on Teutonic soil: at the exhibition it is possible to admire unique pieces from that competition such as Francesco Totti’s shirt, the pennant from the Germany-Italy semi-final and the ball from the final of Berlin against France.

The exhibition also hosts the World and European Cups won by the Azzurri.