The Alziator Award for the best book on Cagliari goes to the journalist Luca Telese. The award for "Hearts champions", published by Solferino.

The special section of the award was established in 2020 to bring the city to the fore on a national level and to stimulate writers, not only Sardinians, to visit it and write stories about the capital.

Telese tells the story of the Cagliari champions, which does not end with the historic Scudetto won on April 12, 1970. On the contrary, an overwhelming period begins: for them, for Sardinia and for Italy. An intense season that brings new epic matches: from those of the championship, where the team struggles to maintain its leadership, but has to deal with bad luck, to those of the World Cup in Mexico, in which many of the team-mates are called to play . A difficult season for the undisputed hero Gigi Riva, out of action for months after his injury in Vienna and pursued by the media in search of a scoop on his love with the mysterious White Lady. A season, in the end, also of important farewells with the end of the Scopigno era.

In the background a Sardinia that runs and renews itself becoming the protagonist, among the fluorite mines and the largest refinery in the Mediterranean, of the industrial revival of the country. And an entire Italy struggling to bring a society traversed by archaic discrimination into modernity, where divorce does not exist and wage disparities between North and South reign.

Telese recounts those years with the narrative passage of the great novel. An immersion in the soul of a time and of a land that intertwines matches and backstage, covers of the Monello and commentaries by Sandro Ciotti, stadiums under construction and ancient megalithic architectures.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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