Thirty-five years ago the tragedy of Heysel was waged, 39 Juventus fans died in the crowd on the steps before the start of the Champions League final against Liverpool. The Juventus club remembers that terrible date: "The word Heysel is one that we will never ever forget", he writes on the website under the Brussels plaque "in memoriam 29-05-85." Thirty-five years have passed, but the memory of who was there, of those who watched from home television, and also of those who were not yet born but knew the facts by reading the history books, is something that awakens immediately, just by reading or hearing that word .Heysel "." That day - Juventus remembers - it was sunny in Brussels. A sun that was leaving its last rays on the field, when exactly on that field, and in those stands, before the start of the Champions League Final between Juventus and Liverpool, the incredible was consumed. Horror was consumed. It all happened in a few moments: the charges, the race to escape, that wall that collapses. And panic. One night, the one in Brussels, which took away 39 people, almost all Italian: the youngest of them was only ten years old. It is to their memory that today, as every day, we dedicate our recollection, and our pain. Because the years go by, but that word continues to evoke in us the same, unchanged pain. Heysel ".
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- JuventusFC (@juventusfc) May 28, 2020"In 35 years we haven't forgotten even one of the 39 victims of the terrible night that changed football forever." Thus, on her social profiles, the mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino celebrates the anniversary of the tragedy of the Heysel in Brussels in which on the evening of 29 May 1985 39 Juventus fans lost their lives before the Champions League final between Juventus and the Liverpool. "To their families - adds the mayor - I send the embrace of all Turin".
"The tragedy of Heysel is a constant warning for the awareness of European football. After many years the emotion is still alive, we remember why such a drama never happens again": the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina thus recalls the victims of the Heysel on the day of the 35th anniversary of the massacre which on May 29, 1985 cost the lives of 39 people for the accidents that occurred before the start of the Champions League final between Juventus and Liverpool. In November 2015, a note recalls, on the occasion of a friendly with Belgium played in Brussels, the FIGC, in agreement with the Belgian federation, paid tribute to the victims of the tragedy, with the Azzurri who placed a wreath of flowers under the plaque that reports the names of the people who lost their lives in the sadly famous Curva Z. Together with the representatives of the Association of relatives of the victims of Heysel led by Andrea Lorentini, the Federation symbolically withdrew the shirt of the National number 39, autographed by all the players of the National and exhibited at the Football Museum of Coverciano.
"The memory of the Heysel massacre will always remain alive in our memory": writes sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora in a post on his facebook profile. "35 years ago, a sporting celebration - the minister writes - turned into a tragedy where 39 people lost their lives and 600 were injured due to the accidents that occurred before the start of the champion cup final between Juventus and Liverpool". The post is accompanied by a photo depicting the stands of the Brussels stadium in the minutes following the accidents that caused the death of Italian fans.
