After 2 years and 29 days on Sunday at PalaSerradimigni 100% capacity. “What a thrill to see the full stands again”
SASSARI. Spissu, Vitali, Pierre, Evans, Bilan: this is the starting five of Dinamo that on 4 March 2020 challenged Burgos at PalaSerradimigni. The one against the Spaniards was the last game played without capacity limitations due to a pandemic, the last match of the pre Covid era, a watershed between what had been and what everyone hoped would be back to being. In between, an endless pandemic winter studded with fears and uncertainties. Two years and 29 days later, Sunday 3 April at 5 pm, Sassari will take the field on the friendly parquet of piazzale Segni to challenge Milan: the match runs towards the soldout, in a building with no limits on capacity and eager to return to the fiery arena maximum of its possibilities.
Of the quintet that in that now distant March 2020 lost at home to Burgos, only Miro Bilan remained – who recently returned due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict -. Piero Bucchi coaches in Sassari, while Gianmarco Pozzecco, then head coach from Sassari, sits today next to Messina on the Olimpia bench. Courses and appeals. On that March day at PalaSerradimigni the fear was already spreading about what would soon explode and manifest itself as a viral fear, in name and in fact.
Today, in the city and on the island, there is a strong desire to return to normality. Of common living. And of the basketball experienced in the stands. The Official Gazette ratifies and certifies it, on whose pages the Law Decree number 24 of 24 March 2022 called to repeal – starting from 1 April 2022 – article 5 of the Legislative Decree number 52 of 22 April 2021: by effect of this repeal, the capacities of the sports halls return to 100% of the available units. An epochal turning point, which smells of never dormant passion and rediscovered certainties.
Eleonora: «It will be exciting, after so many years, to see the fans again instead of the silhouettes and empty seats. Even more so because it will be possible to give the right tribute to Poz, who left without the greeting he deserved for what he did for the team and the city. And if we find the Robinson-Bilan square we could also see some good ones ».
Antonello has a seat in the central stand behind the Dinamo bench. His company, Character, is a partner of the biancoblù project: “We all remember the silence of PalaSeradimigni, the empty and then semi-empty stands that we tried to re-animate with the silhouettes of the players created by Character on the initiative of the Banco of Sardinia: I am happy that the beloved faces of our players are finally replaced by real fans. I for one can’t wait to feel the presence of the building as a whole, in being the sixth man alongside the team ».
Bruna is looking forward to a «match of particular charm: she remembers our first time in Serie A, the first challenge to the red shoes when we were all incredibly excited to be able to see a team of that level live. Without forgetting the wonderful challenges at the time of the Diener cousins, the playoff semifinal in the championship season or the 3-0 elimination in the year of our beloved Poz! Next Sunday we return to the pre-Covid capacity. Our beloved Pozzecco arrives on Sunday and we will welcome him with the enthusiasm and love he deserves. Of course we will cheer for our Dinamo: that doesn’t happen, but if it happens … ».