(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 18 – Forty years after the triumph of the Bernabeu on 11 July 1982, the epic of that Mundial is still alive. Giuseppe Tassi, columnist for QN (il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, il Giorno) decided to tell it in his own way. “From the courtyard to the Mundial” (Minerva editions), in bookstores for a few days, is a story of passion and love for journalism. A vocation cultivated in the courtyards of the 1960s, imitating the mythical Lev Yashin and culminating in the triumph of Madrid, narrated as a young envoy.
In between the great events of those intense years: Bologna winning the play-off of ’64 at the Olimpico, the night of Benvenuti-Griffith, the conquest of the Moon, the unforgettable Italy-Germany 4-3 bullfight. But also the student revolt of 77 and the massacre of the Bologna station in 1980, documented in the role of the journalist. Until the epilogue of the Mundial ’82, where the dream of that child who grew up in the courtyard comes true as if by magic: while Rossi signs the triumph of Bearzot’s Italy, President Pertini rejoices in the stands with the pride of a fan in love.
With a dry and pressing prose of a journalistic slant, Tassi retraces that magical stretch of life that catapulted him from childhood to the realization of his dream. Along the way he meets characters with strong personalities such as Pietro Mennea and the boxer butcher Dante Canè. And in the background the world of the newspaper always hovers, the training ground of profession and life where the sweet parable that ends with the Mundial apotheosis is fulfilled.
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Source: Ansa
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