“Collettivo Soriano” is the name that a group of writers, including a former football player, gave themselves to celebrate the life of one of the greatest Italian goalkeepers ever, as well as the cursed poet of football, Ricky Albertosi.
Eight stories around the bohemian long-haired man, whom Manlio Scopigno considered a "Plato of the ball", told by Lamberto Boranga, Darwin Pastorin, Massimo Raffaeli, Sergio Taccone, Furio Zara, Cosimo Argentina and Massimiliano Castellani, the one who put the clan together and who writes the magnificent story that gives the subtitle to the book, "Popular novel of a goalkeeper": "I have been a cat in the door and also in life: perhaps I have not yet completed the seventh? I fix a hole in the wall, it is dark like the leather check of a football and the rest is all white, like the page of my diary started a hundred times and then placed in the drawer among the photos and drawings of the fans. He wrote me a little girl with her father in prison that she cheered only for me. I cried. I am a giant only on the outside, inside I have the heart of a puppy ... "Castellani, currently one of the best Italian journalists (and not only for the stories of" fùtbol "who, with superfine class, regularly packs on" Avvenire "), as a true captain after winning the “bim bum bam on a suburban pitch, he chose the best men to form his team, his collective.
And what comes out is one of the most beautiful books on football of recent years, full of romance, nostalgia and melancholy poetry. The fault of such beauty is of Osvaldo Soriano, the writer born in Mar del Plata man in forty-three, to be considered the greatest inspiration for every boy who in the eighties wished to write about football, about sport. And Albertosi, a “sad, lonely and final” giant would certainly have been the perfect protagonist for one of the tales of the Argentine poet. A book not to be missed. Another, yet another, magical bridge that binds Italian and Argentine culture through literature.
Ricky Albertosi - Popular novel of a goalkeeper
Soriano Collective, curated by Massimiliano Castellani. Foreword by Emanuele Dotto
