Bologna, 1 July 2024 – A party in grand style, right in the theater where Bologna football achieved its dream Champions League.
The initiative could not have ended differently Red Blue shop windows of Confcommercio Ascom, created together with Emil Banca and al Pugwhich, in the setting of the Dall’Ara stadium, has rewarded commercial activities and shopkeepers who participated in the project, filling the shop windows and entrances of the businesses with color and fans.
A morning of joy and thanksgiving has 210 traders involved, even if the overall membership in recent months has been much higher. On the Bernardini Terrace, the participants, one by one, went up on stage to collect their prize: one parchment as a certificate of participation and a Subscribe to our daily newspaper of one month, with the possibility of renewal at a discounted price.
Who won
The winner of the Vetrine Rosso Blu contest is the Risi Nerio butcher’s shop & C. Snc, by Nerio Risi, who has achieved a total of 867 votestransmitted via coupons and arrived in our editorial office. The store in via Amaseo, in the neighborhood San Donatohe boasts 51 years of activity and a great faith in football for Bologna Calcio. “It is a great satisfaction, also because there are so many thanks – says Risi, moved -. First of all to Confcommercio Ascom and to our association, then to The Rest of the Pugwho collaborated by publishing our showcase. But above all to our customersboth from San Donato and San Vitale who made this victory possible by accumulating the tickets”.
In the butcher’s shop “we are Bologna football fans, and we have always supported it at a very high level – continues Risi -. My grandchildren go to the stadium, they are season ticket holders in the stands, while I follow the matches on television as I have the business. We experienced Bologna to the full, both for better and for worse.”
For the winner, the prize consists of a plaque created dal Pugand newspaper subscriptionthe participation parchment and also a big picture created by Ascom, representing the very showcase with which the Butcher’s shop won the initiative.
The awards ceremony
Opening the dance is the general director of Confcommercio Ascom, Giancarlo Tonelli. “This is a worthy conclusion to a commitment that lasted several months and the support that all the commercial, tourist and service activities have given to Bologna football club, meaning a recognition for what Joey Saputo has done in ten years of presidency – explains Tonelli -. Over 300 million investment for Bologna and in Bologna, procuring work and related industries in our territory. And then came the satisfaction of being able to play the Champions Cup next year, which will bring a return in terms of image and sports tourism, positioning Bologna internationally in the scenario of the most followed sport in the world”.
And Bologna FC appreciated this strong participation. “It’s a beautiful moment celebrate together what Ascom, with the Carlino, has done, because it has accompanied us in the beautiful route which we all did together last year, achieving a magical result – says Cristoph Winterling, commercial and marketing director of the BFC -. A dream come true, and it was nice to experience it with the fans, the area and the city. We felt everyone’s closeness and this made a strong contribution to the success.”
Alongside Ascom, in addition to the Carlino, there is Emil Banca. “It’s a beautiful thing, not only because Bologna went to Europe, but because there was true participation from the city – he says Gian Luca Galletti, president of Emil Banca -. This shows us that when we are capable of being together and the city does not divide, but unites, it is capable of great results. The credit goes to a great team, but also to one very big citywhich through the shop windows has moved towards a common goal: that this may be a lesson for us, because we can unite and achieve other goals also on other occasions and not only sporting ones”.
