Seventy years of Oristano sports are at risk of being left without a home. They are contained in thousands of membership cards, photographs, team rosters, pennants, cups, and medical certificates stored in the Centro Sportivo Italiano archives, now housed in the uninhabited headquarters on Via Sant'Antonio. This heritage, which tells the story of generations of athletes, managers, and clubs, is something the CSI is asking to be saved and made accessible.

"We need new headquarters," President Lucia Tomasi appealed. "We're currently hosted by an association on Via Canalis. Resources are limited, we're all volunteers, but it would be important to safeguard this immense heritage and make it accessible."

The CSI arrived in Oristano in the early 1950s and within a few years became one of the main gateways to sports for the city's youth. Soccer, athletics, volleyball, table tennis, cycling, and running: thousands of young people passed through those clubs, some of which would later become independent organizations. A movement that grew around leaders like Giorgio Perdisci, one of the founding members and a key figure in the committee's life for decades.

Perdisci also brought the CSI into his home, involving his children in his passion. "We, too, grew up within the sporting dimension that dad had cultivated from the very beginning," says his son Luca. "At home, we were all introduced to sports firsthand: my sisters played volleyball, I played soccer. It wasn't just the competitive aspect; we often went to lend a hand." In 2006, when he died, Giorgio was still a member and secretary of the committee. "He preferred to play an operational role rather than occupy an honorary position."

Among the archive photographs is one from 1971. Among the "Giovanissimi" of the Sacro Cuore is a twelve-year-old Gianfranco Matteoli, destined to become a champion with Inter and the national team. "It was my first membership. Until I left Sardinia, I was always in the CSI. I have wonderful memories."

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