Cover of the book Football according to Pasolini (Altamarea).
Idols also have idols.
They can be the most unexpected.
And the meetings may not go well, since on many occasions these people do not expect the admiration they arouse in the star in question.
And the situation becomes a bit weird, because the main idol - let's call it that - acts in a totally unusual and unexpected way.
That is, he performs the way people usually do with him, throwing staff off balance.
When Pier Paolo Pasolini had the opportunity to record some interviews with Bologna players for the documentary
Comizi d'amore
, the thing went regular.
Such was the enthusiasm that the filmmaker had for the meeting - he was a passionate fan of the team, which that fall was heading towards its seventh league title - that he overwhelmed the footballers with questions about freedom or sex.
The footballers, inhibited by the type of questions that were raised and by having Pasolini in front of them, responded with monosyllables.
Only one -Giacomo Bulgarelli- entered the game.
Everything is different when he looks at himself up close.
Also idols of idols.
The Italian writer and film director was passionate about football.
In
Football according to Pasolini
(Altamarea), Valerio Curcio invites readers on a journey through the relationship between the artist and football.
A relationship that could have gone much further, since they say that his performance as a left winger was remarkable.
He even participated in the founding of a club, the SAS Casarsa, which sought to finance itself with theatrical and entertainment activities.
When he was a high school teacher, he would organize games on the lawn of a nearby church with the students, dividing them into teams -approved against fails, high against low-, they say that one of the few times they saw him really angry was after a defeat of his Bologna in Rome.
In 1973, in an interview, he explained: “the place of birth is not decisive, to become a passionate fan it counts where and how the first contacts with football were had.
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