The Romanist festival colors the city: on the side of the open bus “Rome has won”. Exorcised on May 26, the day of the final lost against Lazio nine years ago
While the wave of yellow and red flags breaks in the Circus Maximus area with songs, choruses, smoke bombs and tears, two American tourists in their twenties look at each other incredulously, on the sidelines, unaware of what is happening: “What the f … is going on? “. “What the hell happened?” Who knows if anyone will ever explain to him what, that is, that Roma won the Conference and that the open bus with the cup is about to arrive.
What a party
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Many Romanists did not sleep last night. More than three thousand waited for the team in Fiumicino, then in the afternoon they gathered between via di Terme di Caracalla, Circo Massimo (historic gathering of fans when there is a trophy to celebrate) and the Colosseum. About one hundred and fifty thousand Giallorossi in celebration, people of all ages, many of them also present at the airport. Children with the shirts of Zaniolo, Abraham and Pellegrini, many on the shoulders of their fathers. Kisses and hugs to embed historical days in deep memories. “Love, are you happy?” Says a father to his 3/4 year old son. His smile is worth more than ‘yes’. There are hundreds of teenagers just out of school. They watch the live stream of the players and laugh at it. Many of them have never celebrated a Roma trophy. In 2008 they were three years old at the most, for them this day is like Christmas. Then adults / kids with Totti’s 10 and middle-aged gentlemen. Someone reiterates that he was present in Rome-Liverpool, the Champions League final lost in 1984 and perhaps, at least in part, redeemed last night. Pennants, flags, T-shirts, even that of Totti with the words “I have purged you again”. Scattered banners then. Many. One of these reads “er core me se fuoca”. Manifest of a strong feeling.
May 26
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Rome blocked for Rome. Players on one coach, Mourinho on another. They take turns passing the cup and raising it for the fans. Tilted roads and closed roads, thousands of fans celebrating on a particular day. Nine years ago, May 26, 2013, the Giallorossi lost the Cup final against Lazio. The next day, in Trigoria, the players were challenged with strong sentences. “Unworthy”, “you suck”. Someone remembered that night. Talk about revenge on an adverse fate turned benevolent, the same day. “Je have removed it.” From tomorrow, May 26, the Roma fans will have something else to remember. Like those two American tourists. And market desires spring up: “Friedkin, portace Dybala”
Coach
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The Giallorossi coaches are a party. The players stir up an already excited crowd, start the choirs and sing them in turn, many of them shirtless. Every now and then they raise the cup to take a well-deserved ‘olè’. There are also Ryan and Dan Friedkin. “Your colors are waving, the chills come to me, I never get tired of you, great strength Roma alè”. Furthermore, on the sides of the vehicle there is written “Rome has won”, as Maximus said in the Gladiator after defeating the Germans in battle. The loud scream, this time, is not from the soldiers but from the Giallorossi fans, who have come from all over Rome to participate in a historic day. Unforgettable. Because as Nick Hornby writes and Colin Firth reiterates in the famous monologue of “Fever at 90”, if you hadn’t been there who would give a damn about football? Today Rome agrees.
May 26, 2022 (change May 26, 2022 | 23:27)
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