a champion made it great
La Fiorita, from San Marino to the Champions League: a former Italian champion made it great. Tomorrow begins the first preliminary rounds of the highest European competition
Less than three weeks have passed since the final of Champions League disputed at Stadium of France with the triumph of real Madrid to the detriment of Liverpool but the new edition of the cup with big ears is already at the starting line.
On this Tuesday 21 June the first races of the so-called preliminary round are scheduled, a sort of mini tournament for four whose winner will enter in full sail in the champion qualifications which will be played starting from July 5thwith the first leg matches of the first round.
The four teams that will compete for access to the qualifications are the winners of the championships of Estonia, San Marino, Andorra and Iceland. It is about Levadia Tallin, La Fiorita, Inter Club d’Escaldes And Viking Reykjavik.
There are four semi-unknown clubs, with the exception perhaps of the Icelandic champions and above all of the yellow and blue San Marino players. Semifinals and final, scheduled in a single race, are held in Iceland. La Fiorita, the San Marino team from the city of Montegiardino, has unearthed the greatest curiosities.
A team that a few years ago jumped to the headlines for having hired, surprisingly, a former great player of A league.
La Fiorita, in 2015 the hiring of Damiano Tommasi
It happened in the summer of seven years ago, to be exact in 2015: the executives de La Fioritaenthusiastic about having won yet another qualification for European competitions, they wanted to celebrate the event with the signing of two players from the past and celebratory: the former striker from Rimini and Catania Adriano Ricchiuti and the former Roma midfielder, champion of Italy in 2001, Damiano Tommasi.
Own Tommasiin the meantime he became president of the Italian Footballers’ Association, he entered the history of La Fiorita having scored the first goal on the pitch of the San Marino club.
The former Veronese midfielder, with the yellow and blue shirt on, then played in the Champions League also in the following two seasons, until the summer of 2017.
Tommasi’s recent history is on everyone’s lips: the former Giallorossi player is a candidate for the role of mayor of Verona and in the first round of the administrative elections he was the most voted among the candidates, so as to gain access to the ballot.