Fiorentina will play the second of the three European finals of Italian football, its second final of the season. The challenge with West Ham is one of those games where everyone knows to play a piece of the future, individual and collective.

Going from the Venetian amateurs to a European final in five years is another reason to turn heads for Vincenzo Italiano. With them a whole city: six thousand at the stadium, many others in Prague. All the others to chase away a nightmare that has lasted for 33 years.