To tell an extraordinary one you need an equally extraordinary narrator. And Federico Buffaprotagonist of the third evening of Arena sotto le stelle, did not betray the expectations, taking the Vasto audience by the hand and leading them along the streets of theWorld Italy. The Italian national team that won the World Cup in Spain in 1982, a success whose fortieth anniversary this year, is a team that made an entire country dream and that has continued to incessantly feed its myth between grainy images and faces and voices of its protagonists. “A team that nobody believed in, except one: Enzo Bearzot», Buffa begins after having spent the minutes before the start of the show sitting on the steps, among the audience to whom she dedicated time even at the end of the evening for photos and autographs.
With an intense narrative, never banal, full of rhythm, punctuated by the notes of the maestro Alessandro Nidi at the piano, Buffa alternates news clips, recounting field actions and episodes – some very little known – of the World Cup in Spain, to the focus on the Azzurri players, protagonists of an enterprise that will remain forever written in the annals. From Gentile in marking on Maradona in Italy-Spain, to Bruno Conti’s possible career as a baseball star. The challenge against Brazil, in which the Azzurri took courage and awareness in a challenge with a thousand emotions in which victory came thanks to “Dino’s hand»Zoff, who stopped the ball on the goal line, after Cabrini missed a penalty in the final,« the moment in which Italy wins the game and the World Cup ».
Emotion pervades the audience when Buffa talks about Scirea, a gentle, unique and unrepeatable hero of Italian football, and his deep friendship with Dino Zoff, captain and reference point for the national team. And then Tardelli’s exultation after the goal in the final: «For us Italians the scream is one“. The figure of Enzo Bearzot, coach and father of that group that was based on so many values on which gratitude stood out, returns over and over again. “He was grateful to him and they were grateful to him.” Applause for Pertini’s images, for the memory of how the President of the Republic lived the final at the Bernabeu and the famous scopone match on the return flight.
The last thought, the sweetest has as protagonists Bearzot and Paolo Rossiarrived in Spain amidst criticism and then became, to the sound of very heavy goals, the world pablito. Teacher and pupil, united by a thin thread, undoubtedly blue, in the moment of glory and in the epilogue that, ten years later, saw them find themselves in the afterlife.
And Federico Buffa’s story concludes with open-stage applause, which closes the three days of Arena under the stars organized by Diy Ticket which saw Extraliscio and Elio go up on stage before the storyteller.
