Fan and president of the rossoblù, among the founders of the national singing team, he listened to the ’64 scudetto on the radio while he was in concert and there is a lot of football in his lyrics: all the sport of a legend of Italian song who celebrates his iconic birthday today
There was a boy who, like him, loved Bulgarelli yesterday and Lucumi today. Gianni Morandi turns 80, celebrates them at the “Da Luz” stadium in Lisbon: Benfica-Bologna, Champions League. Bologna has accompanied him all his life, ever since, from Monghidoro, where he was born on 11 December 1944, in the Apennines, the young star of Italian song came down to the city and – convinced by his friend Lucio Dalla – began to frequent the Comunale, today Dall’Ara, in a year that would prove fateful. 1963-64, that of the 7th scudetto, the first after the war, zenith of an entire generation of rossoblù fans. On 7 June 1964, the day of the championship play-off at the Olimpico in Rome, Bologna-Inter 2-0, the almost twenty-year-old Morandi was busy at a concert in Mantua.