Storia dello Sport. Rivista di Studi Contemporanei

«Sei sempre tu che ci porti in vantaggio»

Paolo Carelli, Fabio Gafforini — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

On 29 December 2003, Roberto Baggio – then captain of Brescia Calcio – announced his intention to retire from professional football at the end of the season. The announcement was delivered in a rather unexpected interview with the local broadcaster Teletutto. The interview had been recorded several days earlier and kept confidential until it was aired. This episode represents a compelling case study in the evolving interplay between local and national media: the scoop, emerging from a small private television station deeply embedded in regional identity, rapidly echoed across the country’s media and even garnered international attention.

«Piccole storie domenicali»: oltre quarant’anni di calcio minore toscano raccontati dal settimanale Calciopiù

Gabriele Fredianelli — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In January 1982, “Calciopiù: il settimanale sportivo della Toscana” was born in Florence. Its pages, initially dedicated to AC Fiorentina and other sports, soon became the most accurate analysis of all amateur and youth football in the region, with hundreds of tables, articles and comments every Tuesday. It is one of the first newspapers in Italy to dedicate itself exclusively to this sector, a privileged observation point not only on “minor” football but also on the social transformations connected to it. The article intends to outline the profile of this particular relationship between “minor” football and the media, which has lasted for over forty years.

Calcio e media locali in Italia (1975-2025)

Mirco Carrattieri, Margherita Moro, Lorenzo Venuti — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Film in curva: rappresentazioni del tifoso calcistico nel cinema italiano

Alfonso Amendola, Pietro Ammaturo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Football has found ample space in Italian cinema, where the figure of the football fan has been represented in various forms and nuances. Supporters, in fact, are often used as a narrative tool to investigate issues of collective identity, social belonging and conflict, embodying class and territoriality stereotypes, becoming a symbol of the social and cultural tensions present in the Italian context, alternating a folkloristic and comic vision of the supporter with darker and more complex portraits, especially in films dealing with ultras violence. The paper aims to analyse how the fan has been represented in the history of Italian cinema, with particular attention to its evolution over the decades. Through an analysis of iconic films it will investigate how the representation of the fan has changed over time, passing from a stereotyped model to more complex and stratified figures, capable of embodying the tensions and transformations of contemporary society. The aim is to provide a complete overview of the complexity of this figure, not only as an individual, but as part of a broader social phenomenon that finds a fundamental resonance in media representations, highlighting its importance as a symbolic and cultural figure in contemporary Italian cinema.

La stampa romanista e le lettere al Commando Ultrà Curva Sud

Roberto Colozza — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Football fandoms traditionally communicate through writings, particularly correspondence with periodicals and bulletins related to their favourite team. The present article focuses on a peculiar kind of that literature, by shedding light on letters addressed in the mid-80s by common AS Roma supporters to the Commando Ultrà Curva Sud (CUCS), which was one of the largest European ultrà groups as well the leading group within the romanista fandom. Most letters are written by young people (men and women) who considered CUCS as a source of their own faith, a collective of heroes that were able to sublimate tifo into a holy ritual. Some of those letters were published in periodical press while some others are unedited but accurately catalogued in the AS Roma historical archive: in both cases they witness the ideals of a generation that believed in football as a civic religion.

Il video senza gol: il caso di Qui studio a voi stadio

Carmine Marino — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The birth of local radio and televisions had been a significant turning point for the Italian social history and for the same customs of viewers. These new broadcasters proposed a rich daily schedule, that included films, TV series, brief news reports and some sports programs, as magazines or football commentaries. However, the real growth of this editorial line happened when these TV channels challenged both Rai (Radio televisione italiana) and private networks with the live coverage of Italian football tournament, filling a huge gap in our media system. This paper wants to analyze one of the most interesting and enduring example of football shows broadcasted by local TV stations, Qui studio a voi stadio, which has been airing since 1986 on Telelombardia.

Mediatizzazione del calcio e identità plurime: il caso della fanzine «Brigata Ultrà» di Perugia

Leonardo Varasano — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Beginning in the 1980s, the mediatization of soccer also manifested itself through the phenomenon of fanzines, instruments of information, but even more so of counter-information, dissonant and free voices. In this panorama, an original case study is that of the fanzine “Brigata Ultrà,” a folio of the eponymous group of supporters from Perugia’s north curve between 1994 and 2008. The “Brigata” has a strong territorial identity tied to a specific area of the city and with a political orientation dissonant with that of the Perugia curve: it is a “black” (i. e. right wing) group in a “red” curve (i. e. left wing). This composite identity takes on visible forms and manners that attract national attention. The group travels for years on away trips with a black bus recognizable by an eagle, a tricolor and a Grifo (the symbol of the city). Added to this is the frequent practice of physically following the Italian national team’s matches as well. The fanzine becomes the “voice” of the “Brigata” by proposing and nurturing, around soccer, multiple identities: that of the home neighborhoods, the one of the city, the one of the national, and the one of the politically right-wing oriented.

«Siamo una squadra fortissimi»

Luca Bertoloni — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper analyses the role of songs in the mediatization of the Italian national football team, adopting a historical-mediological approach that moves from the framework of the mediatization of sport, integrating together constructionist and historicist perspectives. Through a periodization by decade, from the 1970s to the most recent years, we will examine the lyrics, practices and forms of enjoyment of songs related to the Azzurri, showing how they have acted simultaneously as agents of history, narrative tools and sources for historical research. The investigation highlights two main trajectories: the top-down one, in which institutions and the media system propose official songs with paratextual and identity-building functions, and the bottom-up one, in which fans and users adapt and relocate existing songs, transforming them into collective anthems. The second trajectory is dominant at the enunciative level, which is expressed in an increasingly performative dimension that ensures every use of these musical objects becomes an opportunity for identity, social, collective and cultural renegotiation. In this intertwining, the song emerges as a transmedia device capable of accompanying and co-constructing the transformations of the media system, reflecting and feeding into practices of social adherence and reappropriation. The result is a representation in which the history of the national team’s songs not only reflects, but also helps to shape the Italian football imaginary, establishing itself as a cultural heritage that continues to renew, in the present, the sense of collective identity.

Daniela Bavastro, Sport e social media. Strumenti e strategie di comunicazioni per le società sportive

Matteo Monaco — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Campanili e palloni. Per una storia locale del calcio italiano, a cura di Saverio Battente, Claudio Mancuso, Nicola Sbetti

Lorenzo Venuti — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mauro Berruto, Lo sport al potere. La cultura del movimento e il senso della politica

Nicola Sbetti — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Franco Bonera, Pezzi di colore. I campioni e le grandi firme degli anni Settanta nei racconti di un giornalista cresciuto con loro. Prefazione di Enrico Mentana

Deborah Guazzoni — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000