It is easy to only talk about champions, in the age of omnipresent TV. It is more difficult to preserve and pass on the epic of the “camboni”, the willing boots whose blunders are shrouded in bar legends. The history of Cagliari, made up of brief glories and long periods of purgatory, is a gallery of heroes and duds, of deeds and disasters, and of many unjustly forgotten gregarious. Footballers, presidents, coaches: thirty-three portraits for as many human types, united in the stubborn idea that another form of football is possible.
BIO PAOLO PIRAS (PHOTO IN FILE)
Journalist and writer, he directs the Foreign editorial team at Rai News 24. Previously he covered football and had his own column for La Domenica Sportiva. He published Bravi & Camboni. The minor epic of Cagliari. Crooked feet, crazy heads and strokes of genius.
