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The league ladies still roar

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SASSARI. Thirty years later, 11-year-old Sara and Monichetta are women. The first now teaches, the second has started a business in Tuscany. Giannella, a little bigger than them, was the rock of defense. She studied, like all the others, and now she works, and wears the uniform of barracella, countryside countryside and Nurra Nurra with a smile and pride while the perpetual motion of the midfield, Alessandra, has been teaching physical education in Piedmont for quite a while.
From memory to actuality, after making history. In order to keep alive the league titles, the pioneering social campaigns – work, fires, territorial continuity – and a Sassarian boldness that proved to be a winner, the association “Vecchie Glorie Torres Female” was established, created to remember and not to forget. Even executives and sportsmen in the round like Gege Falchi and Giagio Patorno.

They were there too, Captain Rossella Soriga was there. It may not have been considered by the national team, but the rossoblù championships were born from his direction. But many other Sardinians went to the blue, when women’s football was still a sport for men. And smiling under the mustache, the masculine Sassari as a female triumphed, with Torres: seven championships, eight Italian cups, seven Italian super cups. Torres was the first to play the Champions League in Italy, bringing for the first time the Uefa logo at the Acquedotto Stadium, and had already compared itself to the national teams of China and the United States, now at the top, in the international tournaments of Olbia and Castelsardo .

To say it with the data it does not give even a minimum idea, because in the Torresa casket (the… “Torrese” is the male), there is a treasure that goes far beyond the trophies. The most successful company in Italy. And in order not to waste so much patrimony, so as not to precipitate the history of who was there into the oblivion-fish-tank of the annals and statistics, now the Ladies of the Scudetti have decided they want to be there again, while the new Torres with President Budroni, a new management and new energy has just found the B, resurrecting after years of tired anonymity.

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Thirty years ago Rossella Soriga was the captain. Banking, now as a young retiree she trains the “chicks” and between Sassari and Alghero she promotes integrated football as national manager of Csen. And as a passion he has ultramarathons, from the Passatore upwards, throughout Europe and beyond. Under 100 kilometers, she doesn’t even get into it. And it wins. Still. Monica Placchi was devastating on the right wing but now she only has eyes for her daughter, her and her husband, head of public relations at Banco di Sardegna. Antonio Garrucciu. Between romance, football and competence, Antonio as a manager also contributed to forming the great Torres. And Damiana Deiana protected Monica from behind, on the right wing. Now LadyD, as she signs on social media, is at the top in master athletics, she works in Bologna for a multinational and she doesn’t miss a Dinamo basketball game.

The championships and the blue jerseys of forwarders, yesterday and today are also of Tiziana Vampo, who had vanished Torres went to play in Rome. Now she is a full-time mother: she has two wonderful children. Thirty years. Thirty years without a pink apostrophe that cannot separate but unites past and present. And thirty years later Juventus, Fiorentina finally appeared with professional criteria, and women’s football began to reap what Torres also sowed while history remains, and it is to continue building it and not losing it that in Sassari they gather the “Old Glories”.

The first seven, the founders, are Rossella Soriga, Monica Placchi, Milvia Cossu, Giannella Pintus, Tiziana Vampo, Damiana Deiana and Angeles Parejo. And many others share the project and will enrich it with their history and their stories. Those of Lilli Cossu and Laura Oggiano, “ancestors” of a discipline that challenged prejudices that they were the first to fight. There had already been something. In Sassari, Lorenzoni’s Cagliari in Serie A, a sketch of Torres but the new Torres flew from C to A, winning the Italian Cup in the first year in the top flight, also giving seven elements at once to the national team marked a turning point beyond regional borders. Winning with a very Sardinian group in which total stars exploded like Carolina Morace (as if Ronaldo signed for …), Betty Bavagnoli, Giorgia Guarino. One now trains Juventus, the other the National team, and Carolina still has Sassari in her heart. All made in Torres.

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An active, controversial Torres, with a vivid civil and Sardinian conscience. Sardines, islanders, isolated. The Federation donated contributions to the opponents for the trips to the island, but not as much. Zero reciprocity. And at the time the Sassari provocation caused a sensation: “let’s go play in Spain: flights cost less”. Stars, stars. And the stars are not watching, they do not look back but they want to witness and encourage. Rossella Soriga is the engine:

«It was an idea, a goal they had for some time – he says -, which first of all had the enthusiastic support of Giagio Patorno. We want to give prestige to those who have done so much for the cause of women’s football in Sassari, from the beginning to the victory of the first championship, unknown to most. Recent history can also be found on Google, of course, but they are raw data and we instead want to stick to the real, living testimonies of the protagonists. Listening to stories, situations, competitions, episodes to put everything in black and white. The goal is to write a book, a document of a historical and sporting era. If then – Rossella concludes -, we manage to have a registered office where we can meet and grow, the dream would become reality. Events, demonstrations … We are open to everyone, without distinction, to continue kicking a ball. And this, considering our venerable age, is not to be underestimated ».

Thirty years later Angel Parejo da Terrazza, near Barcelona, ​​one who is nothing other than Batistuta in Florence and no one else, has remained – faithful – to Sassari. From behind the counter a few others like her serve cocktails and long drinks. And he trains the children of Cus Sassari. Stories. Without slag. Milvia Cossu, first rossoblù number one, has always paralleled sport and profession: designer and graphic designer. Sara Casu as a child dribbled for an hour without the ball ever touching the ground: pure talent. Now he teaches in elementary school, does rock and horse riding. Thirty years. Thirty years ago a column was Manuela Tesse: she remained in football, coaches, best coach of Serie B, she was also in Canada. And it wins. Still. And there were the twins Elena and Annalisa Falchi. Now they have a job, but they don’t give up on football (five-a-side).

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Thirty years ago Angela Piana was a passion for football and football for passion. From Sorso, to traffic policeman in Olbia. The median (the median is not, come on), Alessandra Silvetti, already a good tennis player in Serie B, teaches physical education in Piedmont. Monica Colombino, pure talent on the pitch, now runs a farmhouse in Tuscany. And there is also Pamela Conti, Sicilian adopted by Sassari: she trains the National team of Venezuela. On 30 November the Association will be presented at the Sassari Popular Sports Library, and at the same time an exhibition of historical shirts will be inaugurated. Not to be missed, in a winning story.

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