When Novella Calligaris achieved the feat in Belgrade, the derby was being played in Rome and the announcement on the scoreboard united the stadium: the demonstration of how much she was in the hearts of the Italians
Land the Bridge over the Strait is still being built today, in armfuls. She is Novella Calligaris, eternal girl from Padua and even today, at sixty-eight years old, a tiny bundle of nerves like then, she continues to improve herself and the whole of Italy by floating in the water, in this current case salty, which fifty years ago gave an everlasting glory, between the chlorine of the lane and the admiration of the planet.