Exactly fifty years have passed since Torino’s last Scudetto, the first after the Superga tragedy. This round anniversary, with its historical flavour, was the perfect moment to tell the Granata epic of Pulici and Graziani, Radice and Zaccarelli, Claudio and Patrizio Sala. And that is why Sky Sport is ready to launch a new series: Toro 1976. Lassù qualcuno ti ama. In three episodes, which you will find on Sky and streaming on NOW starting Friday, May 15, that football victory is told within the socio-cultural context of the mid-Seventies, a very complex moment for our country.
The work, whose production was overseen by Sky Sport director Federico Ferri and journalist Paolo Aghemo, with direction by Massimo Bomprezzi and Andrea Parini, explores the birth and consolidation at the highest level of the story of a team that was working-class in temperament and formation, in contrast with the wealthier Juventus of Avvocato Agnelli. The products of the youth academy, raised at the Filadelfia, the transfer coups pulled off by Beppe Bonetto and the generosity of president Orfeo Pianelli, the memory of the “tremendismo granata” of 1972 and the decisive impact of a modern coach like Gigi Radice, one of the first Italian “importers” of intense pressing, of universal players.
In addition to the memory of what happened on the pitch, the docu-series is full of references to the context, to the Turin of those years, reconstructed through the testimonies of those who were there: the unforgettable goalkeeper “Giaguaro” Castellini, Patrizio and Claudio Sala, Renato Zaccarelli, Eraldo Pecci, obviously the “Gemelli del Gol” Pulici and Graziani. And then writers and journalists such as Giuseppe Culicchia and Aldo Grasso, a true Torino supporter like Piero Chiambretti, an important opponent like Fabio Capello (at the time a Juventus midfielder). Within the documentary, the Sky Creative Agency has created a new visual approach that amplifies the emotional impact and turns the work into a more immersive and engaging experience, producing previously unseen scenes through the use of artificial intelligence: historical photographs that come to life and video reconstructions of moments from the past based on the protagonists’ accounts.