The former striker of the Inter seventy years: “President Frazzoli even had to follow me by the investigators, but I” bought “his hounds and I managed to deceive him”
Ispra and Leggiou, a town on the Lombard bank of Lake Maggiore, are divided by ten kilometers. Gigi Riva was born in Leggio, the one who should have been his successor, Giacomo Libera, grew to Ispra. Riva, the left wing of Cagliari, was from 1944, free, the manacle of the Varese and then of Inter, is from 1951. Seven years of difference. “Yet – says Libera – I have never met Riva off the pitch”. Two crossroads from opponents in Serie A, a Varese-Cagliari 0-1 of February 1975, with a rhombus of thunder, and an Inter-Cagliari 1-0 of October 1975, with Boninsegna’s goal. “We were both left -handed, this was the only thing that united us. Gigi was a force of nature. The comparison did not weigh me: on the contrary, I was pleased. I did not make the career that many expected because of the injuries and because I liked to live, I pulled the dawn in the nights. I have not regretted, I enjoyed it”.