The pride of the two players, the first Sardinians in history to win a title with the national team
SASSARI. Those snapshots went around the world. At one point Nicolò Barella got the European Cup and sat in the grass of Wembley with Salvatore Sirigu who had brought the flag with the 4 Moors into the plant. Repetitive shots of the photographers and images that flow on television screens all over the world, with Sardinian fans in raptures for that beautiful homage to identity.
The two are really the pride of the entire football Sardinia which, until yesterday, had never had an island player capable of winning a world or European title with the national team. In 2021 they did it as a couple. Barella, from Cagliari, played all matches in the final phase, with the exception of the third qualifying match against Wales. For Sirigu, from La Caletta fraction of Siniscola, however, a few minutes in that game. As many as enough to be able to claim to have contributed in some way to the final success.
In fact, if Barella gave a boost to Italian ambitions, with even a fundamental goal the one that opened the scoring against Belgium, Sirigu also played his part in a significant way also and above all in helping to cement the locker room. And then it was what he always understood before the penalties against Spain and Inghiltera Donnarumma.
Sirigu, therefore, brought the Sardinian banner to the field, waving it first by himself as a sign of jubilation for the victory and then doing it together with Barella. However, the Torino goalkeeper is not new to this type of thing. When he won his first French title with the PSG shirt, in front of the Eiffel Tower where the players of the Parisian team celebrated the national title, he carried the flag of the 4 Moors.
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