Cagliari, the stadium will be named after Gigi Riva

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"There goes the man but the legend is born. Gigi Riva è Cagliari, and forever will be, from today more than ever. It seemed impossible that he would leave us, a discreet but reassuring presence, monument and symbol, around the cityà as at the side of each of us in advising us and asking for newsà of his beloved Cagliari": thusì Cagliari president Tommaso Giulini the day after Rombo di Tuono&s death.

"For almost ten years having him beside me, discreet and precious, silent but decisive in his every gesture, gave me strength and awareness, an enormous privilege to be able to avail myself of the respect and benevolence of the greatest of all. A constant presence for an entire people, an unreachable totem that will never be less, today that he has left us only physically. We owe you so much, Gigi, and we will have to respect you in your memory, in your example, and forgive us if we are not up to your". 

"We will dedicate the stadium to Gigi,” Giulini   has also announced, “but above all, the constant effort of each of us to make the Cagliari jersey even more glorious, as he did as a player, as a manager, as a flag that will never be lowered. Fly in the sky Gigi and with your star guide us, always".