by our correspondent in Casina di Macchia Madama – Claudio Troilo
Lazio rewinds the tape. It goes back 25 years, to the beginning of the millennium, when the biancoceleste club won its second and, for now, last Scudetto. Tales, memories, anecdotes from the protagonists of that triumph and those who recounted that triumph. From today’s team there were coaches Baroni, Provstgaard, Provedel, Zaccagni, Pellegrini and Patric. From the Lazio of 2000, on the other hand, many were present: here is the account of the evening.
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Casina di Macchia Madama, Stadio Olimpico area, right there overlooking the Monte Mario hill. Lazio chose this place for the final celebrations of the 2000 Scudetto, already a quarter of a century ago. The biancoceleste club wanted to rewind the tape of that triumph, and it did so together with those who made that dream a wonderful reality. Everyone was there, from Mancini to Marchegiani, from Couto to Marcelo Salas, from Favalli to Paolo Negro to Ballotta, Gottardi and Marcolin. Then today’s Lazio with coach Baroni, Patric, Zaccagni, Pellegrini, Provstgaard and Provedel.
All of them arrive, in chunks, even those who belong or have belonged by reflex to Lazio’s history. So here is Pino Insegno, TV face and well-known Lazio fan, Arianna Mihajlovic with her sons Dusan and Nicholas, Nando Orsi and Riccardo Cucchi. Also from the evening are Tony Malco and Grassadonia, coach of Lazio Women. If Hegel saw in the image of Napoleon on horseback the sense of history and the soul of the world, here Lazio finds in this celebration and in these faces the sense of belonging to a history more than 100 years old.
Laziality touched, experienced, savored again, nurtured, scrutinized and reinterpreted 25 years later. Because being Lazio in Rome means adhering to a minority that proudly becomes a corporation, a symbolic apparatus that opposes the liquefaction of society. To be “few,” to know it, to be aware of it, and for this to stand out within a metropolis that engulfs everything, even heroes. Lazio is the essentiality of faith, the double opposite to the massification of cheering, it is the equal and opposite response to common sense. To be a Lazio means to choose otherness over the indistinctness of the equal: here, all this was told by this evening.
There was Arianna Mihajlovic, Sinisa’s wife, with their sons Dusan and Nicholas. They were there to witness Sinisa’s 6 years lived with the Lazio jersey, from 1998 to 2004. The sign of a past with their future in their arms, a surname that also returns in those few words full of emotion expressed by Arianna: “Unique emotion, for me they were unforgettable years. I am very excited thank you all really.”
