Reggiana and Modena return to face each other after 32 years, exactly after, in the 1992/93 season, they challenged each other for the last time in the splendid setting of the stadium Mirabello.
Audience frame from Serie A today to City of the Tricolor of Reggio Emilia, a much denser atmosphere than those who really play Serie A in this facility, penalizing in one fell swoop two groups of fans, both forced to varying degrees to pay for the short-sightedness of those who impose their economic strength on the logic of belonging and territorial identity.
Almost 13,500 people were present for this Secchia derby, a counter-trend and hope in Italian football where, for the same economic interests mentioned above, even the second teams are promoted with a few dozen spectators, while historic squares with large followings are ostracized in the eternal limbo of the lower categories.
The day wasn’t the best, with initially light but persistent rain, which then became heavy as it progressed towards the end of the match. The home Curva Sud, as a preview of the choreography to come, displays a banner that reads “I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A CHILD…”, secondly it drops a nice flag covering the curve while, above it, you can glimpse the banner ” THE CITY’S VANTO SINCE 1919″, accompanied by the waving of the flags in the highest part of the popular sector of Reggio Emilia.
Choreography also for the Vandelli Group in the distincts, here too you can see a flag covering the sector, joined by white flags and grenade at the edges of it, while in the window the banner “CHE BELLO E…TIFAR LA REGGIANA!” is displayed.
Another Reggio Emilia banner worth mentioning, as soon as the choreographies end, is the one that reads: “AND NO ONE WILL NEVER STOP YOU, BLA BLA BLA” signed Square testwhich alludes to the guest choreography’s theme being discovered in advance.
Granata typhus was largely positive, however the division into two sectors repeatedly produces an unpleasant overlapping effect. Nice clapping for them Square testjust as their flags are very beautiful, for the Vandelli Group instead we note the presence at their side of their friends Ultras Fano.
Around 3,000 fans from Modena reach nearby Reggio Emilia, a very respectable figure: they too become the protagonists of an all-sector choreography, compacting in the medium-high part of their sector, where they create a dark blue carpet on which a warrior stands medieval behind which yellow drapes flutter and under the banner “We are the yellow and blue army”.
The support of the Geminian ultras starts strong and, with various dry chants, they make themselves heard in the rest of the stadium; however, not the entire sector participates in cheering, but the central nucleus where the groups of the Montagnani it doesn’t give up an inch.
The scarf seen in the first half was positive, while the banner in homage to little Diego, an unfortunate little Reggiana fan who passed away at just seven years of age due to a serious brain disease, was literally applauded, and not surprisingly applauded by the entire stadium.
In the second half, a slight drop in support, primarily due to the goal conceded by their team, finally when the team arrives near them, after the final whistle, they receive only indifference from those present, who continue to sing chants for the shirt and the city .
Various taunts during various phases of the match, but no significant incidents were reported outside the stadium. From one derby to another, after today’s victory, for the last of the championship and with the same hopes, Reggiana will host Parma fresh from promotion to Serie A, direction “Rigamonti-Ceppi” for Modena, host of a Lecco who he also bids farewell to the Serie B championship, unfortunately for his fans however, to return to Serie C.
Francesco Passarelli
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