A square named after Gigi Riva arrives in Mandas . Now that the authorization has arrived from the Ministry of the Interior, the municipal administration will be able to implement the decision - taken last January - to name the square between via Cagliari and via Carducci after the national team's top scorer and number 11 of the Cagliari's historic scudetto in 1970. «We asked for an exemption from the Ministry of the Interior which yesterday, through the Prefecture, notified the official authorization», explains Mayor Umberto Oppus .
The death of the champion, which occurred on January 22nd , aroused emotion throughout the municipal area. The city administration, with its initiative, wishes not only to honor the memory of Gigi Riva, but also to promote the values of sportsmanship, commitment and sense of community that he embodied. «In the town center we will also create a mural dedicated to the hero of the tricolor Cagliari », announces Oppus, who together with the sports journalist Mario Fadda is writing a book dedicated to Riva.
The players of Cagliari who won the Scudetto, a few years ago, received honorary citizenship from the Municipality of Mandas as a sign of closeness and gratitude for the joy experienced by the entire community with the achievement of that historic sporting goal.
