The awarding of the 2032 European football championships to Italy and Turkey will cause a shower of euros which, at least in part, will be used for the restructuring and redevelopment of our sports facilities. The event that will see us as protagonists in cohabitation with Turkey is yet another demonstration of how business goes against all good intentions considering that the Turkish government has more than willingly abandoned at least a couple of human rights, just a couple. locked in a drawer. Which will probably never be opened, with all due respect to the Kurdish population which, just to give an example, has been decimated with the approval of much of Europe.
The show must go on and we won’t be the ones to stop it. The European football championships will be a great event, perhaps excellently organised, but knowing the chickens in our henhouse and having in mind the atrocities of Italia ’90, we can imagine or at least doubt how this river of money could ever be invested. We were talking about the stadiums, there is already an (unofficial) list of those that will be used, then a couple more will be chosen as possible alternatives, the fan is mainly interested in whether a stadium is welcoming and perhaps economical given that the ticket prices are skyrocketed even though the old and decrepit mantra wants to convince us that “the stadiums are empty due to rampant violence”.
The fact that some of our facilities are in desperate or almost desperate conditions is clear to any athlete, in some cases the renovations were excellently carried out, in many other cases the result was far inferior, qualitatively, to what was hypothesized. Given that the fan or in any case anyone who sets foot in a stadium is seen as a customer, the owner of the facility, whoever he may be, in an ideal world would carry out a market survey to find out what customers are asking for, what improvements they request or which services it deems essential and which ones totally superfluous. At present it seems that no one is interested in anything about the customer and this is an entirely Italian paradox, given that in other areas the customer is pampered in various ways, if only because he brings money and greases the machine that must necessarily yield and produce profits. .
During the round of European cups that has just ended, we witnessed several excellent quality choreographies offered around Europe, the aspect that left me amazed were the words of the commentators who praised these shows as if they were unthinkable in our latitudes. They are actually unthinkable due to the rules that regulate our sports facilities, they are unthinkable if in some cities you cannot even introduce a paper banner into curves, they are unthinkable due to certain impositions taken in the wake of emotion following a crime event and not after thoughtful reasoning. In recent decades, some reforms regarding stadium safety have actually made the stadium more unsafe, even though some of the numbers that are presented to us want to sweeten the pill. It is true that the numbers do not lie but they must be known to be read and above all interpreted. Here our facilities, in many cases old and uncomfortable, are deprived of color and passion, the fans have little room for movement, ticket prices are on average high, let’s also add the procedure for purchasing a ticket which in some cases is unclear , the feeling remains that the stadium remains a place for those old die-hard football lovers or for those who can afford to spend to sit on a heated seat with the possibility of enjoying a drink or an aperitif as is so fashionable.
L’Arena Garibaldieven for a not too attentive eye, it would need a renovation, perhaps only partial because the facility has its own soul, a shape that immediately recalls a football stadium, far from those hastily built facilities that are the same as each other. ‘other, without imagination.
It should be remembered that in the days before the match, Tuscany was hit by winds and rain which caused damage, deaths and injuries so much so that even some football matches were postponed. This danger was averted in Pisa, where the match was played but the capacity of the stadium was reduced: only season ticket holders were allowed into the stands after the possibility of keeping the sector completely closed had been taken into consideration. The atmospheric conditions caused damage to its structure and in the end the competent bodies authorized the entry of only 945 season ticket holders, who were brought together in the first six rows, effectively closing the remaining portion of the sector with white sheets. This aspect characterized the first part of the cheering, or it would be better to say the non-cheering, of the Curva Nord who in fact warmed up their engines towards the fifteenth minute, expressing their thoughts on the matter. As I like to underline in these cases, the Curva acts as a sounding board for a certain malaise and the remaining sectors of the stadium clearly support this decision, applauding the ultras and persisting on that unity of intent that has existed for some years between the different souls that populate theArena Garibaldi.
Even on the Como side there are fifteen minutes of total silence, then the “Como 1907” banner is opened and held in the hand, a choice that practically always rewards, and the cheering starts immediately, compact and continuous. Aesthetically, the people of Como appear to be a cohesive group, with a few large flags on the sides of the banner, several double-pole flags that remain perpetually high and an incitement that involves everyone; they can’t even talk about moments of pause and at the end of the day they can claim to have done their duty in full.
The hosts color the curve with the usual banners, some torches are lit in the various phases of the match, there is a growing dissatisfaction with the results obtained by the team but, apart from a banner asking for greater commitment, the support does not come never less. In the second half of the game, the rain that fell heavily did not favor either of the two fans: there were those who looked for makeshift shelter, there were those who remained undaunted on the steps. The rain ignites a match that is pleasant, nothing to complain about in terms of commitment and a Solomonic draw that neither satisfies nor displeases anyone.
Valerio Poli
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2023-11-08 12:02:36
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