What are bettors saying about Sal Da Vinci at Eurovision?

«But Sal Da Vinci is really there most suitable proposal For represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest?”, we have been asking ourselves for a week, since the Neapolitan singer-songwriter with his “Per semper Sì” won the 2026 Sanremo Festival, thus gaining – according to the Festival regulations – the possibility of competing for Italy at the continental event. A possibility that Sal Da Vinci, 56 years old, rejected thirty times by the Sanremo Festival (thirteen before his participation in 2009 with “I can’t make you fall in love” and seventeen more after), has never thought of refusing: «Italy must be there, therefore “forever yes”. I had set some dates at the same time as the Eurofestival, I didn’t expect this victory, and I had to move them”, said the singer-songwriter the day after the victory at the Festival. From the 12 to 16 Mayso, Sal Da Vinci will perform at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austriawhich this year will host the continental event: it is a finalist by right, as Italy is one of the so-called “big five”, the countries that are the major financial supporters of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the festival. In addition to Italy there are France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom: together with the host country, they form the group of guaranteed finalists. He will sing, of course, “Per semper Sì”, in Italian.

There are videos circulating online reaction from Eurovision fans listening to “Forever yes”: «I like. It’s sophisticated. It’s very Italian, obviously. But what did we expect?», reflects in this video Noosh101, Eurovision expert with 46.8 thousand users registered on her official YouTube channel and 22 million views overall. «If I close my eyes it reminds me of Italy. A great revelation», says Maxe, 5.2 million total views on his YouTube channel, dedicated to Eurovision. «He has a great voice and sings with passion, like a good Italian. I will learn the words to the lyrics and sing it very soon» smiles Laubari ESC, another Eurovisioner.

But beyond the reactions of Eurovision fans, what do the bettors say? There is a fact that catches the eye when observing the trend of Italy’s prices on the site Eurovisionworld. If until February 27th, therefore before knowing the name of the Italian representative, the prices of our country – regardless of everything – were in sixth or seventh place, in the aftermath of Sal Da Vinci’s victory at the Sanremo Festival, Italy fell to eleventh place in the bettors’ ranking. In the following days he climbed a few positions and is currently in ninth place. Bookmakers today consider Sal Da Vinci’s victory unlikely, if not, almost: Bet365 quotes the triumph of “Forever yes” 34 times the bet amountalmost thirteen times the price of the Finns Lampenius and Parkkonen, whose victory is paid 2.63, and almost six times the price of the French Monroe. Bettson also prices Sal Da Vinci’s victory at 34, while UniBet assigns odds of 41 to the Neapolitan singer-songwriter’s triumph. In the average of the prices assigned to him, Sal Da Vinci has a 2% chance of winning the Eurovision Song Contestagainst 25% of the Finns Lampenius and Parkkonen, 11% of the French Monroe, 10% of the Danish Søren Torpegaard, 7% of the Australian Delta Goodrem and the Greek Akylas, 5% of the Swedish Felicia and the Israeli Noam Bettam. In short, the road seems to be all uphill. Even in Sanremo, however, Sal Da Vinci did not start as the favorite. Then we all know how it ended.