Bologna challenges Milan in the Coppa Italia final: Mattarella welcomes the rossoblù to the Quirinale

The greeting of Mattarella, the eyes of over 50 television broadcasters representing 180 countries, the wave of affection of the thirty thousand Bolognese whose vanguards landed in the capital yesterday. And then the last tests on the field, before the match that is worth two seasons: this one and the next one, if tomorrow night the Bologna raise the trophy to the sky, automatically detaching the ticket for the next one Europa League. Bologna caput mundi, Milan too: it's the final of Coppa Italia, beauty.

A national and international stage, to which the Rossoneri are more accustomed but which for Bologna of the last half century represents a happy exception. It is not every day that you are received by a President of the Republic. And instead it will happen to the Rossoblu this morning at 10,30:XNUMX, when the doors of the Quirinale will be opened to the players, technicians and managers of the Rossoblu (Joey Saputo in the lead) and the Rossoneri for the embrace of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

Sure emotion and one certainty: Italiano and his boys will show up on time for the institutional appointment. Thirty years ago the same thing did not happen to Renzo Ulivieri's Bologna, never as in that circumstance Renzaccio. On the eve of a Roma-Bologna, with the collective audience already scheduled months ago in the Vatican with Pope John Paul II, a delay in the flight to Fiumicino induced the rossoblù coach to run towards the training field 'failing' the pontiff, to the despair of president Gazzoni.

Italian no, this morning he will put on his gala dress and after the ceremony and a frugal meal with the team in the hotel in the Parioli area that since yesterday evening has been the headquarters of the rossoblù in Rome, he will head for the Acqua Acetosa stadium, where at 15,30:XNUMX pm his Bologna will try out the last schemes in view of tomorrow night's challenge. The first quarter of an hour will be for the use and consumption of journalists, cameras and photographers, then a curtain of secrecy will fall on the eleven knights called to perform the feat.

The cameras will be turned on again tomorrow night at the Olimpico and there will be a flood of electronic eyes arriving from all over the world focused on the green rectangle. The final of Frecciarossa Italian Cup, explained yesterday the Serie A League that organizes the event, "will record an extraordinary and unprecedented participation of foreign operators on a global scale". The eyes of the world, in short, will dissect the event. And they will join the eyes of the thirty thousand rossoblù fans who in these hours are joyfully invading a capital already at risk of traffic jam for the International tennis tournament monopolized by the return to the scene of Jannik Sinner. Jannik is certainly more tense in these hours than Vincenzo, who tomorrow plays his fourth final in two years.

At the helm of Fiorentina, he has failed three times out of three, twice in the Conference League and once in the Coppa Italia (against Inter, two years ago, right on the pitch of the Olimpico). But sport always offers another opportunity to banish the shadow of a curse. His fellow citizens of Ribera are counting on it, who tomorrow evening in the square will follow the final on the big screen. 'We Are One', from the Two Towers to Sicily, also in the choice to have all the players in the squad board the train to Rome yesterday. It happens when you are called to make history.