Football ethical Francesco De Gregori busybody unscrupulous businessmen with no dreams or ideals are taking away the last shred of poetry .... Give us back our football. Give us back our drums, our megaphones. Give us back our years and our friends who have left us. Give us back our world, our freedom of feeling you thieves who ever lived, small atoms men drown in your lust for power and money. We will never be the way you want. Also against this football business mafia. Until the victory. Until the last fedayeen. Founder
"The leverage of the football class 1968" is one of the jewels set in the career of Francesco De Gregori. Shining paradigm of the essence and magic of football. The ethics embodied by the adolescent Nino has dissolved. The future is precarious. A musical story which confirms that football is a metaphor for life.
Who knows what happened to Nino? He was twelve years old, in 1968. It spolmonava, on a dusty field on the outskirts of Rome, to shine among your peers that he has in common dreams and aspirations
now evaporated. Aimed to win the jersey number seven, Nino. Despite those shoulders narrow that they could penalize him.
The boy then now is a fifty of whom we know nothing, after sharing with him the unique emotions of that day and of that sample. We do not know what was his parable, and not football. If at some point he hung up his shoes in some kind of wall, and now passes his time to laugh in a bar. If you ever fallen in love, for ten years, a woman who has ever loved.
Nor want to know. Nino is because, for those of us, the icon immortalized in time of a football is no more. It would be a crime to pull off the sweet oblivion that surrounds him, as is done in tearful talk raging shaw on the screens of mediocre Italian television. For
Nino (and for us who lived in his own feelings), we only hope that, in football and in life, has been able to continue to put your heart into your shoes and run faster than the wind. Whenever it was necessary to do so. What has not become one of the many players (men) who have not won anything in their career (life), to let wearily carried by the waves of fate.
Someone wrote that Francesco De Gregori, if he had not become a poet, musician (or a poet, musician), was a great man of cinema. Nothing could be truer. The stories he has been able to devise a 35-year career, that is to say when in 1975 burst into our lives with that artistic jewel that is the album "Rimmel" are literary treasures and elegant script. That Nino is no exception. Indeed, it is one of the highest points.
For lovers of football "The leverage of the football class 1968" remains a masterpiece to keep in mind. Few have been able to tell with equal simplicity and harmony of the ethical values \u200b\u200bthat were the cornerstone of the sport, whose irreversible decline is also linked to the mediocrity of those who now directs. And that ended up contaminating the experts and fans, who should be guardian over time.
Almost everyone today are afraid to kick a penalty, in an escape from the responsibility that is to ground the precarious global society of the third millennium. Few know inspiration in football (in life) to the courage and imagination all'altrusimo. What should be the paradigm of each real player (and each of us human in its path). The magic of football (of life) is being lost for dissolution of these values.
Listening to the words and music by Francesco De Gregori, and in those dark moments in the sun of our days are often so troubled, it serves as a warning to address the problems of every day with the same enthusiasm that drove the teenager Nino in 1968. An era in which also participate in a lever of aspiring players was the way to really get to test and confront themselves. Able to perpetuate, in time, the ethical values \u200b\u200bwhich inspired the kick.
"and then put his heart inside his shoes and ran faster than the wind"
Francesco De Gregori
"The leverage of the football class 1968"