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After three years, the fans are back: “With Juric, the spirit of the grenade is revived”

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Climb to Superga three years later. Spirit and identity, history and memory: May 4th is a grenade. Indeed no, it belongs to everyone. Three years ago it was the last time with the Invincibles together with those of that team who keep a vivid and profound memory or want to keep a story of it through the generations. Then, the pandemic, Covid, two seasons a bit like that.

Climb to Superga three years later. In 2019 there was a Taurus called to conclude a championship full of records: he finished with 63 points and the pass to dream of Europe. Walter Mazzarri was the leader of a group followed for the results, less for a total and complete identification that was missing: at times, to out of tune the absent or only hinted courage and those long moments of speculation inside the matches that distanced the concept of domination of the game.

Climbing to Superga three years later means doing it to renew a never dormant faith, but also to follow a different team, more similar, very much, to the Taurus spirit. The guide, today, is Ivan Juric, on the hill alone in the past months and, now, in front of the first time: what effect will it have? «I understood that it is a unique place, I have been there. We will see … », so the Croatian coach. Mazzarri, or rather, his Bull, was applauded because he looked to Europe. Juric, or rather, his boys, they are because they had the strength, and the effect, to recreate what one breathed in the ’70s. One year he cannot do law, but in one year something has moved: the search for the possession of the plots aimed at the conclusion and woe to stop and think, it would be an unforgivable mistake. Doing it, on some occasion, would have brought points, but not doing it, however, brings consensus and relief.

Juric climbs to Superga on the day of the Invincibles’ celebration when his Taurus seems to have understood how to do it: there will be Belotti in the role of captain, there will be Bremer in the role of the best and, both of them, do not yet know what there is. behind the corner. Belotti waits: he can go away, he probably does, but he can also put the car in reverse and, thanks to Juric’s job, accept a new agreement. Bremer reflects: he will leave the city where he arrived as a little boy and from where he climbed the hill at his baptism the day after the first as a starter against Juve and Cristiano Ronaldo. «Here it’s not like Genoa: there, the fans were split between Genoa and Sampdoria. Here you can feel that people are cheering for the grenade … », said the coach of the rebirth last October 1st, a few hours before the face to face against the bianconeri in the city confrontation. Torino grenade and Juric immediately struck the right chords, albeit just arrived and albeit in full storm in relations with the club.

On May 4th three years ago, the participation was enormous. In 2020, on May 4, Italy came out of the first, very hard, lockdown, in 2021 the release from Covid was expected, which did not arrive. Today, we go up to the hill for the highest moment, and not just grenade.

“The world of football – says the president of the FIGC Gabriele Gravina – has the duty to remember that legendary team that in the second post-war period had the extraordinary merit of reuniting the country after years of suffering …”. Juric will lead a beloved group beyond the results. A question of identity, courage, spirit. –

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