A monumental work for a monument-champion like Gigi Riva . " In our sky a roar of thunder " comes out today and promises to satisfy the palate of the rossoblù fans, first of all, of sportsmen (not only Sardinians) and of those who have the island in their hearts, in its more than two and a half hours full of testimonies and emotions.

The Cagliari Scudetto champion also arrived at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, greeted by a long and thunderous applause from all the people present in the room.

Riva's life up to now, the day of his 78th birthday, narrated by the ambitious Roman director in two years of work and after twenty years of close "courtship". It is the same champion who talks about himself from the armchair in his living room, with a cigarette in his hand and a firm but always sincere voice.

And, to say what he does not mean about himself, there are the people who loved him, idolized him, admired him : his "brothers" in the field, his friends, the journalists, the people who even met him. , the players he inspired and to whom he was the elder brother when he was Italian manager.

There is - in the images and in the music - Sardinia, the truest one, perhaps even stereotyped, there are his goals, which in the end is what he has always preferred to talk about himself. The successes and injuries, in rossoblù and in blue.

The film comes out today on the occasion of his birthday , first in Sardinian cinemas until 11 (the director arrived on purpose in Cagliari who will also be a guest in the evening screening of the Notorious multiplex in Piazza L'Unione Sarda, while the "premiere" will be held in the afternoon at the Teatro Massimo).

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