Vittorio Cecchi Gori turns 80: Fiorentina, cinema, history

In the triumphant (first) and painful (later) parable of Vittorio Cecchi Gori – who turns 80 today – we read in filigree the adventurous and reckless novel of Italian football in a period of definitive transition, the one that from the 90s discolors in the dawn of 2000 bringing with it – like the flood of a river – the debris of a cumbersome time common to many “masters of the ball” who carelessly navigated between easy riches and budgets to be fixed, in a season that began between fireworks and closed with the rattle of the handcuffs, of the failures, of the shutter that is lowered with a deafening roar.