The former coach had just remembered his title by discussing with the then president of Genoa Preziosi during a television broadcast in the “Primocanale” study
Twenty years ago – October 3, 2005 – Franco Scoglio died. He went off live on television, sitting on a white armchair, guest of the “Stanata Nord” broadcast, on the Genoese broadcaster “Primocanale”. He was sixty -four years old, he was always convinced that there are twenty -one ways to beat a corner kick, not one more and not one less. That evening you dress elegant, a habit, as always on public occasions: dark jacket, shirt in tone, yellow tie with blue stripes. He was discussing with Enrico Preziosi, at the time president of Genoa, who was connected to the phone. “Dear Scoglio,” said Preziosi. “You don’t call me that, you call me professor,” he underlined, punished and very serious, Scoglio, the professor, in fact. It was, certified. He had worked for years as a professor of gymnastics, giving a hand in a physiotherapy center. He had also graduated in Pedagogy, with a thesis entitled “The winner and defeated athlete”. At the punctualization of Scoglio, Preziosi had raised himself and had replied: “Well, she calls me president and then I will call her professor and I will put my apron”.