It is today the anniversary of the assassination of Vincenzo Claudio Spanish, killed before Genoa-Milan. Cosimo: “I remember everything perfectly, it was our classic Sunday: my daughter’s phone call, the race in the hospital, the excuses never arrived of her killer”
Thirty years later, the memory is alive as that January 29, 1995. A black date for Italian football. The day on which Vincenzo Spagnolo, for all Claudio, was killed by a “butterfly” blade just outside the Ferraris stadium, a few minutes from the championship challenge between Genoa and Milan. A stabbing game at the hands of the eighteen -year -old Simone Barbaglia, belonging to the “Band of the Barbour”, a rib of the Rossoneri Brigades. “Spain” was 24 years old. Cosimo Spagnolo talks about his son as if he were still here with him. Telling him became almost therapeutic. Remember and get excited. In a day that is always special, but today it is even more: “Pain is always the same, the lack of increasingly stronger. But I’m very happy to talk about Claudio. Some people, when they are overwhelmed by such a great tragedy, throw away everything to avoid suffering further. They don’t want to think anymore. I think in the opposite way: I kept everything and I want to talk about it continuously, so it seems to me that Claudio is still alive “.