Don Fabio remembers his intellectual friend: “I used to go to Grado in the summer for sandblasting, he was there too and we organized matches with mixed teams of footballers and artists. Then we ate, drank and talked about everything. He was an intellectual but he didn’t push it, only mediocre people do that…”
Sometimes destiny disguises itself as an author and writes plots like a book. How else to explain Bologna returning to win a trophy on the fiftieth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death? The intellectual of Ragazzi di vita, killed on 2 November 1975 in Ostia, was born in the Emilian capital and remained linked to the red and blue colors throughout his existence, even when he moved his residence to Rome. “But he was still one of ours, a Friulian like me”, Fabio Capello immediately replies.