A timeless legend, three times top scorer in Serie A and still top scorer with 35 goals in 42 games
CAGLIARI. Happy birthday to Gigi Riva who turns 77 today but his myth is far from sunset. The character of the Cagliari leader of the Scudetto, three times top scorer in Serie A and still the best blue scorer with 35 goals in 42 games, indeed seems to reinvigorate himself with the passage of time. In fact, in this period initiatives on him flourished. In fact, a hymn was recently written in his honor, while the history professor Francesco Cesare Casula began the process to award him an honorary degree in motor science. Next week, November 11, there will be the premiere of the play “Luigi” at the Conservatory of Cagliari, in which the narrator will be that of Luca Ward. The journalist Federico Buffa will stage a show dedicated to the meeting which took place at the end of the 1960s between Gigi Riva and Fabrizio De Andrè, entitled “Fragile friends”. Finally, at the beginning of next year, director Riccardo Milani’s docufilm entitled “A roar of thunder in our sky” will be broadcast. In short, Riva stopped playing in 1976 but is always on the crest of the wave (en. G.)