🎥 Bologna celebrate Coppa Italia, chants for Italiano😍
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.
Bologna, the party is here. Yesterday afternoon in the Emilian capital, a real show in red and blue hues took place, with the team parading through the city streets on an open-top bus.
Thirty thousand, this is the number of people present under the two towers to celebrate a historic milestone, which had been missing for 51 years.
The architects of this year's miracle are Vincenzo Italiano and his terrible boys, who after the feat of twelve months - qualifying for the Champions League - managed to surpass themselves with the victory of the Coppa Italia.
The scenes experienced yesterday afternoon were beautiful, with a unleashed Orsolini and captain De Silvestri.
It all went on for a good part of the day and it doesn't matter if the end of the season took away from Bologna the possibility of qualifying again for the Champions League.
A trophy is forever, it is destined to fill the trophy case and be passed down from father to son, as happened 51 years ago.
A side note, regarding Italiano.
The former Fiorentina coach, by choosing Bologna, may have taken the toughest road. Anyone would have had only to lose by taking over a team that seemed to have reached its peak.
Italiano, however, thanks to his work and his connection with the city, has built a work of art.
It's normal, then, that the entire red and blue people hope for his reconfirmation, and yesterday there were also chants in his favor. To be seen if it will be enough to ward off the interest of Milan.
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