But the Guerino is yours, it is above all yours.And therefore best wishes to all of you.Here too it is not rhetoric, it's truth.This is the most beautiful and joyful community of Italian sports publishing, the same one that allowed her to remain the oldest periodical in the world, while other dozens and hundreds of other sheets disappeared.In 1915, when the Piave murmured for the Great War, the editorial staff closed and went entirely to the front.Yet on May 4, 1919, as Paolo Facchinetti, a friend who is no longer there, recalled, the Guerino returned to the newsstands.Something incredible and again in 1945 happened, when the newspaper - reduced to one, very exhibitioned page - did not stop going out despite the fact that under the editorial staff of Milan flared up the civil war and despite Mussolini, in the nearby lyric theater, professed confidence in oneVictory that was instead defeated and shame.
Because the Sports Guerin, which you have at this moment in your hands on paper or iPad, is a way of looking at sport (and perhaps at the whole of life) before even a newspaper.I understood it over the many years in which I read it and wrote it.The Guerino is Bastian against by definition, a little to fulfill the role of critical conscience that disappeared elsewhere, a bit because wonderful, anarchist, pungent pens have always been exercised here.Obviously from the greatest of all, Gianni Brera, to the legendary Camin, journalist-vignettista-director, to a formidable series of writers.Above all, let me choose Luciano Bianciardi, maximum post -war intellectual, who after a life Agra left us just fifty years ago.The strength of the Guerino lives in the pact that has always tightened with his readers.His courage was born from this link in being against the current, free.How many of you I have met in over thirty years of life: traveling as a correspondent, on the evenings as director, today in the new television tasks.Yet every time it comes as to embrace between us as soon as we meet.Guarinetto since 1974, Guarinetto since 1981, up to the youngest.It's a group, the Guerino, is Facebook before Facebook.I use the name of an old column, "readers' gym", edited by my beloved master born.Here: the Guerino is a gym for readers.A thousand things are due to these columns: the symbols of the teams, the entrance of the costume in the ball, the Moviole designed, the color, the championship film, but the most precious heritage remains the fantastic niche of knowledge, authority, moral cleanliness.Is no price, nor time.
Sports criticism newspaper, as he brought written under the newspaper to his birth.By the way, in the first issue of January 4, 1912, which we found ten years ago for the centenary celebration, there was already the first author scratch: "The Guerin Sportivo is not a socialist deputy.His program will follow ".Writing on the Guerino was like living with the diplomatic passport, thanking all the directors from whom I learned a lot.You could and you can write everything, as long as you do it with competence, great knowledge - better if of international football and the history of the ball - and above all a lot of independence.The Guerino smells of independence, it is independence itself.I learned to recognize her when I was waiting for Tuesday in front of the newsstand and I heard it on the desks when I entered the boy.I was the first director, for the personal data, born in the seventies and raised on bread and Guerino.Mine were beautiful years, gorgeous, entered the intern and released director, with two more children.I left the third, but never abandoned, on February 29, 2016.I was touched by, in hard years, to the resistance to keep the newspaper alive.Few means, many fears, but feeling close to you.I don't want to talk about me, but about Gigi, Chicco, Vanni, Rossano, without which I would not have made it.The Guerino is bigger than everything, even those who thought they are more important than the Guerino.Today is a great day, grandiose.I would like to symbolically toast with all of you, from Ivan to the last of the readers, to share the joy of seeing him turning 110 years of life, after over 70 governments, 11 presidents of the Republic, 10 popes and two centuries have passed through the river of history.of events.
The Guerino is there, the Guerino is.Great wishes.