Stradella doesn’t like it “Only we were the” real “Oltrepo”

STRADELLA

In the nearby Stradella, the news of the rebirth of the Oltrepo that will take place in Broni, the football venue of the new club that will play, thanks to the sporting title of Varzi, the championship of Excellence, made noise. Because the history of the Oltrepo, of the first Oltrepo football set up in the province of Pavia, was the one that saw the Stradellina (the Biancocelesti team of the city of Stradella) and the Portalberese ( the neroverde club of Portalbera) and who participated in the Promotion championship thanks to the highest sporting title, which was the one held by Portalberese. The green-blue team, starting from the world of amateurs, had already succeeded in the enterprise in the first two years of life to win the Promotion championship, that of the Interregional (the current D series) and reach the professionalism of the C2 series. It was the S.P. Oltrepo of the late Tino Rovati, for all the presidentissimo.

The colors were green-blue, with a white background. Ten years of football at the highest levels for a territorial reality that is certainly small but which has been able to attract the attention of a territory that also bordered on Emilia (in the Piacenza area) and Piedmont (in Tortona). Now, those nostalgic fans who have always remained in contact with each other are suddenly jumped at this news. In practice, for them the Oltrepo was that and only that. As some of them say, on FB. «The sports union SP Oltrepo was founded in 1984 with the merger between Portalberese and Stradellina, a neighboring town and city. Starting from the Promotion, he reached the C2 series in just two seasons, riding unforgettable vintages with bright derbies with Pavia and Vogherese and meeting in the championship companies such as Venice, Novara, Pordenone, Chievo, Casale, Alessandria, and arriving to conquer the title in 1992 of amateur Italian champion beating Akragas in the final held in Lavello, in Puglia. All with a unique and unforgettable president like Tino Rovati at the helm. From then on the name was misunderstood. For us blue-green fans it remains what was created in those years with a youth sector that competed in championships against Inter, Milan, Atalanta. After that, the legend remains, which is why today the use in the name Oltrepo seems inappropriate to us ». –

A.M.