Italy Brazil 3 to 2, by the actor Davide Enia from Palermo, is an “epic and very personal” commentary of the match played by our national team at the 1982 World Cup. A maniacal and delirious evocation of characters and facts, exemplified by the theatrical genre of “cuntu”. “U cuntu” in Sicilian is the story of a notable event, of a heroic feat that is worth passing down orally to future generations. Associated, in the island’s spectacular tradition, with the French chanson, it celebrated in dialect the Catholic epic of the Carolingian paladins grappling with the terrible Moors.
Paolo Rossi, Zoff, Conti, Pelè, Falcao, have nothing to envy Orlando or Rinaldo; their “deeds” are now part of the collective historical memory and deserve – this seems to mean Enia their minor, mythical and modern Olympus.
