«Bandit and shepherd», the homage to Riva by researcher Mario Lecca in Antarctica

In the past few hours, in Antarctica , from the Concordia base, Mario Lecca , a researcher originally from Austis, also wanted to pay homage to the memory of Gigi Riva .

The launch follows the one carried out in recent hours byanother Sardinian researcher in Antarctica, Marco Buttu .
Lecca, taking off a hot air balloon with the writing «Bandit and shepherd», thus took up Riva's famous phrase: «I would have earned triple. But Sardinia had made me a man. It was my land, I had arrived at the age of 18. At the time they sent punished soldiers there. On the continent they called us shepherds or bandits. Today they compete to take holidays here. When I was 23, the great Juve wanted to shower me with money. I wanted the scudetto for "my" country: we did it. We bandits and shepherds."

And to accompany the researcher's very popular Instagram post, there was the clarification: "A thought is in order, here too" among several appreciative comments.