If Cagliari doesn't want it, we'll take it. This is the meaning of Brindisi 's ambitious plan, and more precisely of the President of the Port System Authority of the southern Adriatic Sea, Ugo Patroni Griffi. The Italian stage of the America's Cup World Series is in the sights, after frictions between the Sardinia Region and the organization of the event.

The first consequence, or perhaps the first cause, was the "diversion" of the first stage, initially destined for Cagliari, towards Vilanova, in Spain. Then, the risk of losing the event altogether. The tension convinced the Apulian city to insert itself between the two litigants . "The goal is ambitious, but we can do it, we have all the potential and what it takes," declared the President of Confindustria Brindisi, Gabriele Menotti Lippolis.

And the area is now pushing to host the World Series, all the more considering the imminent administrations in the city: on May 14 and 15 Brindisi will elect its new mayor , and the America's Cup "coup" could represent the first big commercial. Cagliari permitting.

(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)