The car with the body stopped under the area where Igor was celebrating with his curve. And the chants are back: “When Igor Protti scores, a roar will rise to the sky”
Uniqueness. Force. Participation. Love. Everything for him, for Igor Protti: the coffin enters the Armando Picchi at 6.06 pm and over ten thousand people sing, sing, sing. And they applaud. All for the idol of a Livorno who climbed and dreamed. Behind the coffin, another car with the mother: in tears and tried but strong to be there, to want to be there, strong like her son. The Curva Nord sings for the ten minutes in which the car stops in the area of the world where Protti went to celebrate. And he sings like this: “When Igor Protti scores, a roar will rise to the sky. And under the curve he will run, Igor Protti leader of the ultras”.
lucarelli and gallant
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Thirty-five degrees. Three hours before the event – Livorno did well to open the doors, the stands and the internal bar – Igor’s “devotees” are already over a thousand. Enamored influx, the group of the historic Curva Nord and beyond. The number 10 shirt is scattered everywhere, an hour before his arrival the fans have multiplied, we are over 7000. Tribute. Gratitude. Devotion. When the body crosses the threshold of the Armando Picchi”, there are over 10,000 fans. There are former teammates, from Galante to Piovani, from Balleri to Diamanti, Alessandro and Cristiano Lucarelli who says: “It’s the only time in thirty years of football in which I wouldn’t want to be in a stadium. I still have to get used to the idea…”. Real chills. Tomorrow the body will be in Rimini for two days, Protti’s hometown. Friday in Bari. Fabio Galante: “Before a match with Juve I remember telling him that he would score. Sign. It made me understand what it means to wear the Livorno shirt.”