Tommaso Giulinipresident of Cagliari, participated in the conference entitled “The passion that unites”, as part of the “Sports Day”, an event now in its third edition and spoke on various topics, starting with the social role of the Sardinian club: ” I specifically like to remember Touch2See, an initiative that has had enormous resonance at an international level and which we have developed as a company involving our entire structure, being able to allow blind children, thanks to the collaboration with a French startup (Touch2See, precisely). , to watch a match live at the Unipol Domus is something wonderful to see them get excited about our victory, following the match with the ad hoc device and the radio in their ears, was unprecedented and special from an emotional and emotional point of view. of technological innovation. Here, this is an example of the social role of Cagliari, what we like to do with schools, with communities, in penitentiary institutions, in the Curva Futura – the only sector of an Italian stadium entirely and exclusively dedicated to children fans – and again with the Casteddu4Special, the Quartieri Cup and much more developed in over ten years also with the Foundation that bears the name of my father, whether directly linked to sport or more broadly within the social commitment of Cagliari Calcio “.
A thought also about Edoardo Bove: “What happened last Sunday shook us so much, I am happy to be able to say that the worst is over and we wish Edoardo to recover as soon as possible to continue his competitive career. We are talking about a potential pillar of the Italian national team, I hope that this dream can remain alive. Here in Paulilatino we talk about the values of sport: here, I really hope that Edoardo Bove can continue to dream and be ambitious in football, his sport, as all young people must be able to do.”
Tomorrow Cagliari will play in Florence.
“The relationships with Fiorentina are very strong, we are very close to the Viola club. We experienced the Astori tragedy together, what happened to Davide is extremely similar to the Bove case. Luckily it happened in a football stadium, with an ambulance and a defibrillator nearby, hence the utmost importance of having them on all pitches, so Edoardo was saved unlike Davide. These facts link us so much to Fiorentina, together with the recent death of Joe Barone in following a similar problem: he was a modern, charismatic manager, who left us prematurely. This is the third episode that has happened to Fiorentina in the space of a few years and I want to express our solidarity with the Tuscan club : Tomorrow we will hug them on the pitch, but we want to win the match (laughs).”
Cagliari’s path?
“Our seasons are always characterized, first of all, by having to save ourselves. The ambition must always be there, we must all have it: me as president, the athletes, the fans. But first of all we must save ourselves and it is a guiding rule that we have always had, even when in 2019 at a certain point, before the advent of Covid, we found ourselves at the top of the table. Let’s think of Atalanta: today they are among the candidates for the Scudetto and among the best structured to achieve it, but they know well that. For the type of reality they are must first of all maintain the category and then think about something else, and they never fail to remember this. It is right and fundamental to aim high, with ambition and the desire to dream, but also with great realism and pragmatism”.
Finally the words on the new Cagliari stadium: “Those who frequent the Unipol Domus know how well football is experienced there and the match can be enjoyed to the fullest, but also that it is a temporary stadium, with critical issues linked to its small size and the absence of coverage in three out of four sectors A stadium that we like but which is not enough, given that every time around ten thousand fans actually stay outside because the capacity is just over 16 thousand seats. We hope to be able to realize the project of building a new stadium, with the contribution and support from institutions, Government first of all, given that it is an issue that affects the whole country. The few stadiums that are renovated are like the one in Bergamo, which is modernized piece by piece thanks exclusively to the work of the club and the private sector. We hope that Cagliari will soon have a stadium with connotations of innovation, identity, sustainability. We presented a fully-fledged project five years ago, which with the delays we know risks already being old. We need everyone’s help, the Municipality of Cagliari has never abandoned us in this sense, so let’s move forward. Now we play in a small, nice stadium, but it cannot be enough to contain the passion, the desire for football and for Cagliari.”