Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.
Acting
Alberto Sordi's physical comedy is absolute perfection
Direction
D'Amico captures small-town chaos with affection
Director
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Alberto Sordi
Benito Fornaciari / Libero Fornaciari
Margarita Lozano
Erminia
Daniele Vargas
don Regazzoni
Tina Lattanzi
Amelia Fornaciari
Teodoro Corrà
il medico della squadra
Dante Cleri
ragioniere Quintino Braglia
Elena Pedemonte
signora Guardavaccaro
Rosita Torosh
la moglie del giocatore Zanon
Carla Mancini
la moglie di uno dei calciatori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sordi was Italy's most bankable star in 1970; this film captures his peak 'Italian everyman' persona that defined postwar national identity.
Real footballer Omar Sívori appears as himself — he was an Argentine-Italian striker who'd just retired from Juventus, making this bizarrely meta for 1970s audiences.
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