A hamlet in the province of Asti who knew how to give life to one of the greatest dynasties of Italian sport: Pope Bergoglio also knew the magic of the “Tambàss”. Then about ten years ago …
Where the red earth was now the grassy appears. The Sferisterio entitled to the memory of Silvano Rosso, and even before that of Prospero Dezzani, welcomes those who arrive in Callianetto as the most evident symbol of a glorious past and an absent present. The future, who knows. Here, in this fraction of about 1,000 inhabitants of the municipality of Castell’Alfero, province of Asti, at the beginning of the new millennium the local team of Tamburello – Tambàss in Piedmontese – gave birth to one of the largest dynasties in the history of Italian sport: 11 badges (of which 10 consecutive) in 12 seasons, plus 10 European cups (the equivalent of the Champions League in football), 10 Italian Cups and 8 Supercoppe Cups Italian. Then, in 2013, he melted. “This year the Callianetto will miss the new province in the Serie A championship – the new province, a weekly of Asti, wrote in February 2014 – a bit as if the chocolate cake was missing from the chocolate”.