Today he is 88 years old, he tells everything about his long career on the football fields. Pinuccio Murru was a football star: he missed Napoli due to family choice and then also Mazza's Spal. He stayed at Cagliari for a few months.

Stories from the fifties that Pinuccio Murru, who stopped playing at 25, continued until the year 2000 and beyond as a coach. The big opportunity came in 1952. «I had already played - he says - regional youth championships with internal matches in via Pola in Cagliari. Then the finals in Rome where I was noticed by professional clubs. I played in midfield and scored a lot. I also played an inter-regional final in Naples, my team won 4-0 with two of my goals. Shortly afterwards, an emissary from Napoli showed up at my house in Quartucciu with a check: I was a minor, 17 years old. The emissary spoke to my father Efisio, proposing my immediate departure to the Continent. Nothing to be done, my father said, "you can't leave home so young". Nothing came of it. Then Cral Cirio, a Serie C club, and Spal with president Mazza also tried. I stayed in Sardinia also because In the same year, Cagliari took an interest in me. I went to the rossoblù, I was registered, they guaranteed me a good salary for those times. But the story ended immediately, the space of a pre-season training at Amiscora with Stefano Perati's Cagliari ».

The spark was not born in the rossoblù house. Pinuccio Murru was not at ease. He doesn't say why. The fact is that Quartucciu's child prodigy, the same year, before the start of the Serie B championship, was diverted to Sant'Elena di Quartu, then a satellite of Cagliari, followed closely by Rocca and Arrica. Extraordinary championships began among amateurs with the first category in a single round. Pinuccio Murru also wore the shirt of AgipGas which was making history at the time, then of many other companies, including Arbus of the historic coach Ugo Fiorillo. Among his memories «the blue shirt of the military team. I wore it against Germany, winning 7-2: I scored two goals."

Pinuccio Murru stopped playing at the age of 25 and was no longer able to have great stimulation. He decided to become a coach, he did so for 36 consecutive years. Among his memories, the benches of Quartucciu, his hometown where he lives, Settimo, Dolianova, Selargius, Ussana, Donori, Senorbì.

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