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THE WORLD HAS THE SHAPE OF A BALL
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What do football and painting have in common? The protagonist of “The World Has the Shape of a Ball” tells us through a story that lasts just one night but spans seventy years of football and world history. Sixteen paintings made in the past and found in the attic the night before leaving his childhood home provide the cue to tell the story of sixteen football legends. Sixteen champions, all completely different from each other, but who share the same football language, the same stylistic mark, the same traits of the greats. But football is not detached from reality, from the world, and from history, which is constantly moving, and so, from this particular football observatory, the stories of the champions unfold, but also those of real life, which has changed at the same time. Football and life, a fascinating and indissoluble intertwining, and, as always, the bond that keeps them firmly together is made up of emotions.
“THE WORLD HAS THE SHAPE OF A BALL” (Ultra Sport Ed., 2024), foreword by Riccardo Cucchi, poems by Francesco Certo
THE WORLD HAS THE SHAPE OF A BALL
What do football and painting have in common? The protagonist of “The World Has the Shape of a Ball” tells us through a story that lasts just one night but spans seventy years of football and world history. Sixteen paintings made in the past and found in the attic the night before leaving his childhood home provide the cue to tell the story of sixteen football legends. Sixteen champions, all completely different from each other, but who share the same football language, the same stylistic mark, the same traits of the greats. But football is not detached from reality, from the world, and from history, which is constantly moving, and so, from this particular football observatory, the stories of the champions unfold, but also those of real life, which has changed at the same time. Football and life, a fascinating and indissoluble intertwining, and, as always, the bond that keeps them firmly together is made up of emotions.
“THE WORLD HAS THE SHAPE OF A BALL” (Ultra Sport Ed., 2024), foreword by Riccardo Cucchi, poems by Francesco Certo
THE MAGIC YEAR
I have always considered that 1982-83 team the most beautiful and strongest Roma ever. Falcao, Conti, Pruzzo, Di Bartolomei, Tancredi, Nela, Maldera, Vierchowod and many others, expertly led by Maestro Nils Liedholm, were the protagonists of an extraordinary and unforgettable journey. Together with Susanna Marcellini, I recounted that wonderful championship through the testimonies of the players, staff members, journalists, and fans. An exciting and passionate journey inside that team that fought and won against a stellar Juventus that could count on six newly crowned world champion Italians plus Platini and Boniek. The hopes, fears, joys, pains, the liberation of those who experienced that legendary championship both on and off the field. A championship that was the beginning of a new era and that finally, as the unforgettable and much-missed President Dino Viola said, freed the fans from the "prison of a dream".
“THE MAGIC YEAR” (Ed. Ultra Sport, 2023), preface by Luigi Ferrajolo, photos by Roberto Tedeschi
I READ THAT IT'S FOREVER
A journey through emotions across eight stories. The tragedy of Vermicino told up close by a child the same age as Alfredino; a sunset by the sea and a hypothetical conversation with a brother lost after just twenty days of life; the encounter, twenty years later, with a love never lived and never ended; the daily odyssey experienced on a bus ride; a declaration of love for football; a special and unforgettable Christmas gift; the comic and bitter misadventures of an IT technician; the nighttime conversations and reflections with a newborn son who isn't there.
You laugh, you cry, you reflect... you are moved.
“I READ THAT IT'S FOREVER” (Ed. Lampi di Stampa, 2013)
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