Apinù between the posts, Parrasanna and Nagasella leading the defence, Passacarragnu dictating the tempo and the eternal Franco up front .
This is Cagliari's starting lineup according to Gialappa's Band, who returned with a nostalgic post that sparked nostalgia and laughter.
According to the most irreverent coach on Italian television, today at the Ferraris Stadium in Genoa, the Rossoblù will take to the field against De Rossi's Genoa with a team that seems to have emerged straight from a Sardinian broadcast of "Mai dire gol." And indeed, that's exactly what they are.
The team features Apinù in goal, with Parrasanna, Barrago, Nagheso, and Nagasella in defense. Passacarragnu, Gusinilla, and Sgracchiu make way in midfield, while Suffinigi and Sicagno operate in attack behind the ever-present Franco, a universal center forward and a television legend of the 1990s.
The whole thing was published in a hilarious post on the official Gialappa's Band page, which wanted to pay homage to the golden age of “Mai dire gol” and the legendary gags of the three Sardinian “envoys” played, between the end of the nineties and the beginning of the new millennium, by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo.
To make things even more exciting, each player in the lineup has a sticker with a retouched photo of Giovanni Storti as Nico, the chief correspondent who during the broadcasts would launch into mile-long lists of unlikely names, systematically throwing the director and hosts off schedule.
And in just under three hours, thousands of likes and comments arrived from those who still remember the jokes by heart.
Yet forty years have now passed since the 1986 World Cup when Marco Santin, Giorgio Gherarducci and Carlo Taranto began to attack Italian football with satire, taunts and superstitions, to the point of proclaiming themselves the “Montezuma's curse” of football.