Tennis enjoys an immunity that Italian football is denied. If it happened in the Italian Cup, the revolt would start. Instead, on clay it is glamorous.
In life, image is everything and this also applies to sport and the business that surrounds it. Today the tennis it represents what is in fashion and (Italian) football is behind the blackboard. Fair enough, given the results. And yet even the best ones sometimes fail and when it happens it’s a good idea to tell them so that they don’t get lost in the belief that they are infallible. Preamble too long to describe a day divided between Foro Italico (morning and afternoon) and stadium Olympic (evening): two instead of one, taking advantage of the extreme proximity of tennis and football. Yes, the very one that gave rise to the unsolved mess of contemporaneity between Rome derby and final of Italian internationals.
What would have happened to our heroes who command the ball if… the final of Italian Cup had started at 11pm due to a calendar weighed down not only by the rain but also by the choices of the organisers, and had ended at 2am (and luckily the third set flew by in an amen, otherwise…), with the players victims of humidity and cramps and the arena half empty and people having at a certain point to choose between working the next day, or rather the same day, and sleeping in the stands?
The price paradox between Foro Italico and Stadio Olimpico
And if all this had happened in an open stadium, on a rainy day and by pouring out the paltry mite of 208 euros (pigeon loft) or 586 (lower sector)? The feeling is that if all this had happened at the final of Italian Cupthe next day people would go and pick tomatoes at the managers of the Alloy because there is a limit to everything. Also to the physical and psychological resistance of athletes and spectators. After all, i 139 euros for a curve of Milan-Juventus they have given breath and pen to endless sermons on the social value of football (it is clear that for the rest it is not valid).
But no. On the contrary. The theme of the day was the fumes that a mischievous breeze sent out just before midnight from theOlympic al Central of Foro Italicoforcing the sophisticated electronic arbitrage systems to surrender for a few minutes. Ah, my lady, what a scandal and what scoundrels. Those of the Alloywe mean…
Fan management between rain and ground tickets
And what would happen if the average football fan, with a normal wallet, had been given a business card? 22 euros (commissions included) to graze all day in the avenues of Foro Italicoshouldering to (in)see the players training for a few minutes, watching a couple of doubles and junior tournament matches while listening to the noises from the closed courts where you need a special ticket to enter? It happens, see attached coupon.
It also rained, but this is not the fault of the organizers. It happens. The fault, if anything, is that those who organize an event like him Italian internationalsone Slam without being one Slamyou can’t fail to have a plan ready to prevent people from getting soaked unless they manage to throw themselves on the floor in one of the indoor spaces where there are bathrooms or food courts with sandwiches in plain sight. gold credit card.
A privilege intended only for the fastest, however, because then the security closes and if you get wet outside. And that’s it. Ah, if it had happened in the stadium of those bad footballers… Not bad.
Post scriptum – For the final tickets cost from 597 to 2,691 euros. In fact, they were expensive. Sold out. Which means that they are right and that in any case a pass for the Central Sunday 17 May is a bit like a diamond: forever.
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