A year ago a boy with a golden heart left before a great champion. Twelve months have already passed since the day Totò Schillaci stopped fighting the brutal disease after having battled for months with the determination that has always distinguished it, in sport as in life. A year without a man who wrote one of the most beautiful fairy tales of football, starting to kick a ball on the streets of the CEP of Palermo until he conquered the world, dragging Italy on the world champion podium to the sound of goals. Totò left on the morning of September 18, 2024 but his memory is always alive in hearts not only of those who had the privilege of knowing him, but also of those who appreciated the simplicity of a boy who left with a suitcase of dreams and arrived where he would also be utopian to think.
Nobody has ever forgotten the qualities of a football phenomenon that has left an indelible trace of its experience. Palermo first of all he remembers him with two murals in the city, a must for those who have never forgotten the champion’s businesses: one arose months ago at the CEP, the popular neighborhood where the dream, the other, more recently, at Passo di Rigano, always in the capital, started.
In Messina, still no initiative of the genre, but on the horizon there should be the creation of a mural outside the renewed “Celeste”, where Totò got to know by making a mountain of goals before taking flight to Juventus. “Totò is the son of Palermo, but loved throughout Sicily and throughout Italy and is, in all respects, the adopted citizen of Messina, a city in which he left an indelible mark and to whom he was very close – explains his son Mattia Schillaci, born precisely during the magical nights of Italy ’90 -. We are happy for every work that enhances the image of dad ». An unforgettable dad like the man and the champion that all of Italy has loved.
