The sailors are boarding the AC37, one by one, under the shouts of encouragement and warm applause from the fans. They take their time to let yourself be lifted up and wave from the stern. The music is blaring. The base of the Red Moon It’s a party.
It is the day in which the team fights in the first final, even if it is in the preliminary phase, no more and no less than against the defender of the 100 Guineas jughe Emirates Team New ZealandThe fans, totally devoted, wave the Italian flags that the team itself has distributed.
An opportunity
Micaela Villiani and his daughter Chloe Flour They are part of the large Italian community residing in Barcelona, which with nearly 45,000 people, is the most numerous among the non-natives settled in the city. “We didn’t know much about the Copa América, but now we follow it. We are from Barcelona Swimming Club and from there we see it well. It is an opportunity Having Luna Rossa here brings us closer to our country,” explains Villiani.
Italian fans at the base of a Rossa Prada Pirelli / The Newspaper
From inside and from outside
Friends and relatives of the team are invited by the organisation to see off the sailors from inside the base. Outside, many Italian and local fans remain, who do not give up and also want to take Luna Rossa out to the regatta field.
Alexander Spanoof Sicilyhas lived in the city for eight years. “I have been following Luna Rossa since 2000, it is a I dream of having it here“, he says with the camera in his hand.
Interest in technology
“I’m very happy to be able to see them today,” she explains. Mara Gallianistudent of aeronautical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, who has come to Barcelona specifically to follow this technological competition in person and see the most innovative and fastest boats in the world up close.
The team is already sailing. This is when, following the ritual, the Italian flag is raised and begins to wave imposingly.
Fan Club
The promoters of the Facebook group came from Verona, Bologna and Venice Luna Rossa Supporters Clubwhich has 22,000 followers. The hope is to be finalists again, as in Auckland, in the last edition of the America’s Cup, in 2021. But despite their passion for the teamits fans agree that Luna Rossa’s task, although it has reached the final of the preliminary round, “is complicated”. “It will be interesting to see the level that each team reaches, they are all working and improving at every moment. When the moment of truth arrives, they will be very prepared, it will be very different from what we have seen so far,” says Elfo del Monte, the driving force behind the fan club.
