Forty years ago, on November 22, 1981, Fiorentina-Genoa was played: the game clash, the heart that stops, the Franchi speechless and those thirty seconds of anguish
His heart stops for a very long time. Thirty seconds if they want they can be eternal. The pulse does not respond. Giancarlo Antognoni is lying on the ground, cyanotic, his eyes closed, his legs wide apart, his right hand resting on his chest, his tongue has turned upside down in his throat. He has just been hit in the left temple by goalkeeper Silvano Martina, who came out in a sprawling manner to grab the ball. The Franchi stadium is crystallized, as in a bad spell. Fiorentina are winning 2-1 against Genoa. The game started for fifty-five minutes. Three minutes before following the cursed trajectory of that launch, Antognoni scored the goal of the advantage, on a penalty, in his own way, of power. It is November 22, 1981, the Sunday when the boy who was playing while looking at the stars tripped over an evil star that is blowing his life away.
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