The “poetic” company of Bologna
At 10.59 pm last night the referee Mariani brought the whistle to the mouth and blown three times, at the center of the Olympic stadium. Not even the time to wait for the third whistle, that half of the stadium, the rossoblu one, exploded in an epochal party: by beating Milan, Bologna graduated champion of Italy. A Goal of Dan Ndoye allowed Vincenzo Italiano’s team to raise the Italian Cup after fifty years after the last time, for the happiness of the 30 thousand fans who arrived in the capital, for the final against the Rossoneri, from the Emilian city: someone defined it The largest exodus ever made by the Bologna fansfounded in 1909 and re -founded in 1993 after falling in bankruptcy. “The city moves», Recited some scarves made for the occasion, which quoted the verses of”The evening of miracles“, The masterpiece of a Bolognese Doc as Lucio Dalla. The party began when the Olympic speakers began to reproduce another song to the ball, while its author, another Bolognese Doc, took the field to embrace the rossoblu coach, the club management and the players of the team: which has become a sort of unofficial hymn of Bologna for some time (the original remains “your wings Bologna” of the same Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Luca Carboni and Andrea Mingardi), “Poetics” by Cesare Cremonini last night seemed to perfectly embody the poetry and magic of the company of Orsolini’s team, Ferguson, Freuler and his companions. “Tonight you are beautiful,” Cremonini sang, while the voices of the 30 thousand Bolognese in the stands joined his and fireworks colored the sky above the Olympic.
The story of how “poetics” has become the soundtrack of the triumphs of Bologna is fascinating. The association officially broke out during the last season, that of the large ride that brought the rossoblu trained by Thiago Motta to qualify sensationally in the Champions League. It is a story of parallel lives: A song without the Physique du rôle of the hityet wonderful and epic, who challenging the rules of the market ends up turning out to be successful; a squad which on the eve of the beginning of last season had a Mount Ingaggi equal to a quarter of that of the club with the highest engagement mountain (for the record: Juventus), who Against all prediction and expectation he finds himself conquering a place in the Europe of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool, PSG, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. In search of a choir to dedicate to the triumphs of Zirkzee bomber and Captain Ferguson, The rossoblu fans fished in the musical tradition of the housewithdrawing out the hit that in 2017 led the Bolognese singer -songwriter to play in a championship of his own. From social dedications to the choirs in the stands of the Dall’Ara: so “poetic” quickly became a must in the playlist of the home stadium.
It really was really beautiful, Thiago Motta’s team: the ideas and solutions brought by the former Inter and PSG midfielder, succeeded in 2022 to the latest Siniša mihajlovićhave allowed Bologna to win the attention of the international media, over twenty years after the last qualification for a European Cup. The videos of the fans who intone in unison the verses of Cremonini’s song at the end of each home game of the team have become viral on social networks. Also exciting those who support other colors. “Football is the metaphor of life,” said Jean-Paul Sartre. The music is also, after all. The combo raised the concept to yet another power.
At the end of the season Motta has decided to leave: he felt ready to guide a top club, Juventus. In his place, the Saputo – the industrial family owner of Bologna – called Vincenzo Italiano, in turn looking for new adventures after the experience on the Fiorentina bench. The rossoblu greeted Joshua Zirkzee, flown to Manchester, the United bank. Not only that: Riccardo Calafiori also started, who after the European showcase sold to the English sirens and landed at the court of Mikel Arte, who strongly wanted him to Arsenal. The wing Alexis Saelemakers, real arrow of Motta’s Bologna, finished the loan returned to Milan and then ended up in Rome. Italian took a weaker team in his hand than that coached by his predecessor, yet he brought it even higher, allowing the rossoblu to return to win a trophy: in the Bologna bulletin board he had been missing since 1998, when the Emilian team won the UEFA Intertoto Cup. For the record: Thiago Motta was exonerated by Juventus in March, two months after the end of the current season, after the elimination from the Champions League and the Italian Cup and after a series of negative results, including the heavy home defeat for 0-4 against Atalanta and 3-0 defeat against Fiorentina.
What Bologna has been playing for two seasons has been a game similar to what Cremonini decided to play on the eve of the release of “possible scenarios”the album that in 2017 marked a watershed in his career. “When I decided to publish” Poetics “as the first single of” Possible scenarios “, in 2017, I was about to face my first tour in the stadiums. The choice was suffered. A song of over five minutes, completely out of any tendency of the moment, at a time when the approval imposed by the streaming platforms was already dominant. But I found it was exciting and essential to play that game, just at that moment. For this reason “poetic” tells better than many other songs my relationship with music, which is most of the time that of author and musician and then, on tour, also of performers and singer. A relationship in which I started very young to think of pop music as a creative, stimulating, free and above all able to offer me the opportunity to make artistic gestures and, even more important, provocative, challenging the market, the approval that we are all noting, but above all myself. Wasn’t it also 50 special ‘a breaking song? ».
“In this world of heroes nobody wants to be Robin”, Cremonini sang in another song of the same album. He lends himself well to telling the philosophy behind the virtuous model of Bologna: a gross mountain engagement of 37.6 million, a figure – even inferior to that of the newly promoted Como and Cagliari, who struggles not to relegate – that on paper would allow to aspire to a place in the middle of the standings, let alone dream of a place among the big names in Europe or the victory of the Italian Cup. “Today, raising the bar without worrying about the algorithms simply means breaking down the most dangerous barrier for each work, that of time. I have always and only wanted to write evergreen and “poetic” is in all respects a song that manages to tell more about my ambitions better than others, the huge work behind and that pinch of madness to which we must never give up», Insist by Cremonini, tracing comparisons. And yes, certain stories are really beautiful.
