Three new additions to the Italian soccer hall of fame
Three new inductees into the Italian soccer Hall of Fame
Luciano Spalletti, Daniele De Rossi, Andriy Shevchenko. In Coverciano è again time for legends, and on Monday will be celebrated the annual ceremony of the 'Italian Football Hall of Fame', the recognition that since 2011 the FIGC assigns to players, players, coaches, referees and managers who have written the history of our soccer.
In the Auditorium of the federal technical center, starting at 6 p.m. live on Raisport, deferred on Rai 2 from about 7:30 p.m., the 12th edition awards will be given according to the votes cast by the jury of sports journalists coordinated by Matteo Marani, president of the Football Museum Foundation.
It will be a blue evening, the color that unites the careers of four of the six stars who officially enter the legend: coach Luciano Spalletti (category 'Coach'), 2006 world champion Daniele De Rossi (Italian footballer), vice world champion in 1970 Roberto Boninsegna (veteran), the blue Valentina Giacinti (footballer).
In the audience will be team and staff of the national team, which gathers Sunday in Coverciano to prepare for the last two commitments of the Nations League round with Belgium and France. As every year, space will be given to a foreign champion who has brought prestige to Serie A: the jury has chosen Andriy Shevchenko (foreign footballer), Ballon d'oro 2004 and protagonist with Milan in the 2000s. With Sheva there will also be those who decided to bring him to the Rossoneri: Ariedo Braida, general manager of that Milan (manager).
There will be three awards in memory of this diction: to the captain of Roma champion of Italy 1983, Agostino Di Bartolomei, to the midfielder of Lazio champion of Italy 1974, Vincenzo D'Amico, and to the coach of the Cagliari team that won the Scudetto in 1970, Manlio Scopigno. The fair play award 'Davide Astori' will also be presented: it will go to psychiatrist Santo Rullo, for the project 'Crazy for Football' the national team for people with mental health problems.
The Italian soccer hall of fame was established in 2011 by the Football Museum Foundation and the FIGC, and each year it is enriched with new figures, according to the choices of the jury, made up of the president of the'Unione Stampa Sportiva Italiana, Gianfranco Coppola, and the directors of national sports newspapers, in the persons of Iacopo Volpi (Rai Sport director), Federico Ferri (Sky Sport director), Guido Vaciago (Tuttosport director), Stefano Barigelli (Gazzetta dello Sport director), Alberto Brandi, (co-director with responsibility for Sport NewsMediaset), Ivan Zazzaroni (director Corriere dello Sport and Guerin Sportivo), Piercarlo Presutti (ANSA head of Sport), as well as Matteo Marani, president of the Football Museum Foundation.
As per tradition, the awardees will deliver to the Football Museum in Coverciano an heirloom that may represent their professional careers.
