Pallone di Popolo: a few less “blue ticks”, but many more granata hearts

A few less “blue ticks”, but many more granata hearts. Several of today’s Salernitana players still don’t have that “logo of fame” that distinguishes public figures on social media, and yet to ignite the passion of a people who ask for sweat on the pitch, not followers on Instagram, it took very little. Very little. They will be famous, maybe soon, and if anything with the seahorse sewn on their chest, but in the meantime what counts is the soul that was seen, under the shirts, in the eyes, in the races, at the start of a championship that magically gave back to Salerno not love, that has always been there regardless of the results (and in the last year they were the worst ever), but rather the strength to believe in a group in which to recognize oneself.
Brave, combative, Bersagliera, Martusciello’s team, driven by 13,000 lovers, caught up with and overtook Cittadella in the closing credits of their debut (and that’s already two comebacks, considering the Coppa Italia against Spezia) showing the distinctive traits of the Granata heart that people are demanding. And so, in the middle of a market that is moving forward with gritted teeth, with Petrachi already identified as the leader of this new course of “if fate is against us, too bad for him”, the people of the seahorse have made the pre-sales for Bolzano last just an hour, where tonight it will seem like we’re 900 kilometers further south, starting then to bring Arechi back to Serie A numbers for the next home game against Sampdoria, and who cares what will happen tonight against Sudtirol…
It is the immediate, decisive, unmistakable response of a fan base that is more hungry than wounded, that does not rest even when it bleeds, because on a midsummer night Salerno perceived, or rather saw and felt, everything that has been missing for a year. And it was enough to give this group built in fits and starts, between an overly expensive goal that faded away and presumed big names with nabob salaries that were gradually sold, the trust that is owed to those who embody and express the sense of belonging that in these parts counts more than anything else. Because football is not the same for everyone and in the shadow of the Castello d’Arechi people get more fired up for a very romantic presentation of the shirts on the historic beach of Santa Teresa, among children, rather than for a purchase with an important palmares.
Among the players “sent” by the club for the original and much-appreciated initiative on the beach that is the symbol of the city, there was also Amatucci, a promising twenty-year-old boy, one of those who still doesn’t have the “blue tick” on social media. He will adapt on IG, but in the meantime, as the stadium with the princely name wants, he has already shown a bit of a Granata heart. That one, yes, drives a sea of ​​followers crazy…