Cagliari's longest week isn't over yet. Because after the death of the legend Gigi Riva and the funeral which gathered thousands of people from all over Sardinia at the foot of the Basilica of Bonaria to give a final farewell to the Bomber, the calendar also offers football played. A championship match that will be hosted by Domus against Torino , which looks like a new opportunity to say goodbye, remember, cry and shout the name of Riva again. And Cagliari, in addition to the minute of silence that will be celebrated before any sporting event of the weekend, has studied other initiatives to celebrate its Hero.

The first move, after Riva's disappearance, was made by the president of the Football Federation Gabriele Gravina by arranging a minute's silence before the start of all the competitions scheduled for the weekend. The minute celebrated after the break in the final of the Italian Super Cup between Inter and Napoli in Riyadh was a flop, with boos from the small crowd present in the Arab stands. The atmosphere will be very different in those sixty seconds of silence and prayers that will be celebrated tomorrow, in what is Cagliari's home, in the stadium that many, waiting for the definitive stadium, already call "Gigi Riva". Minute of reflection and tears, but not only that. President Tommaso Giulini's club, in fact, has asked the League to be able to play with mourning on his arm and a special shirt . The green light has been granted for Cagliari, who should therefore play against Torino wearing a shirt free from sponsors, which could recall the white shirt with the red and blue laces which for years has been immortalized with Riva's goals, especially in the year of scudetto. Curiosity: a white celebratory shirt with red and blue laces had already been worn by Cagliari on 9 April 2017 , to celebrate the anniversary of the 1970 title. Even then the opponent was Torino, in an unlucky match for the red and blues, defeated in the old Sant'Elia with a score of 3-2. A match that went down in history for the goal scored by Han, the first North Korean to score in the Italian championship.

And in Cagliari's first match without Gigi Riva it is easy to foresee a special crowd. , including season tickets (13,431 season passes) and tickets, between today and tomorrow there could be an assault on the last available seats, also driven by the emotions experienced yesterday during the funeral celebrated in the Basilica of Bonaria. Because Cagliari-Turin is a very important match for the rossoblù, engaged in a delicate chase for salvation, but tomorrow's match is seen by the fans as a new opportunity to get closer and give each other courage in the pain of the passing of L'Hombre Vertical by Leggiuno.