A journey into the story that tells the strong link between a team and its city, the power of sport as an opportunity for blackmail. It is the exhibition “The Avellino We are we” inaugurated yesterday afternoon at the headquarters of the State Archive of Avellino. The sports director is excited Luigi Pavarese In observing shirts and memorabilia kept in the boys “The value of the roots is fundamental for a team. I was almost moved to see the Pantani shirt, it reminded me when I was little and I started following Avellino. I am referring to the 1972-73 season, with Giammarinaro coach, the one that brought Avellino to Serie B: the Avellino di Pantani, of nobles, of Marchesi, of Miniuss, of Codraro, Piaserro, Zucchini. It is necessary to acknowledge the company of Agostino to have made a lot to revive the love of the fans for the shirt, has allowed the community to rediscover the sense of belonging. He explains how “Avellino is a city of fifty thousand inhabitants, who alone does not fill one of the great Italian stadiums. It was Serie A who made the rest of the country Avellino discover, which until then was almost forgotten. The challenge must be to always bring our being Irpinia, our culture, our traditions to the team, and it is what is doing of Augustine”. And on the transformations that have crossed football “a lot has changed, especially at the management level, but in the end it always arises from passion”.
He is the director of the State Archive Lorenzo Terzi, introduced by the journalist Gianluca Amatucci, To explain that he has chosen to propose “an exhibition on football because sport is an element of great identity value. I know it well as Neapolitan and poso I imagine what this white-green shirt means for those who are Avellino. But there is also the desire to demonstrate that sport can also be studied from a historical point of view and that the related sources can and must be protected and enhanced. An approach that emerged only after the 60s”. Then he focuses on the Jn exhibitions “goes from the original Torchetto and Pantani shirts to the newspapers of the 1920s, which come from the donation of the Archive of Salvatore Pescatori, an intellectual Irpinia and the emergence of the Archive. Fishermen had collected hundreds of newspapers in his private collection and those same newspapers also report sports news, they also allow to follow the vicenies of the sports teams. And documents that have been donated by private collectors Daniele Calabrese, Arturo Greco, Salvatore Grammatico, Leondino Pescatore. A strong link, the one between Avellino and his team that grew over time “This conscience has developed more and more as football became a popular sport. At the beginning it was not at all: the first news of the 1920s concern above all collateral news events, like some accidents that occurred in the games of the time. Subsequently, the presence of football, it was increasingly marked, as well as the link between the shirt and the territory. Opening titles of newspapers, such as that coming from our EroCoteca that reads: “Serie A is also redeemed”.
The president of Avellino does not hide his pride Angelo Antonio D’Agostino “It was football that made Irpinia great, on our part we do not want to disperse this heritage, we know we have a great responsibility.” He underlines how “The greatest emotion was precisely to touch the love of the province for the team. Today, more than ever, we cannot disappoint the fans, we are called to keep this feeling alive and transmit it to the wearer this shirt. Football is made up of victories and defeats but you must always go on, we must not be discouraged in the face of moments of difficulty”. Among visitors also families, boys, fans and non -fans. It affects the presence of Gabriella Pescatori, nephew of Salvatore Pescatori to whose collection most of the newspapers on display “The documents he kept guarded become a precious tool to tell the story of this city. This exhibition is also a tribute to his memory”
Many emotions also for filmed on the theme of football, created by the Avellino State Archive.
