“Sorry Ameri, I'm Ciotti” or “Clamoroso al Cibali” are some of the most famous phrases born within 'Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto' and which have entered the everyday lexicon. The famous radio show turns 60 today: it was January 10, 1960 and in the early afternoon of Sunday, one of the most important sports programs on Italian radio officially began. 'Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto' was born in the Rai studios in Milan, perhaps the most important because it has spanned generations, resisted changes and accompanied the evolution of Italy's sporting and social history, becoming the longest-running program on Italian airwaves. On that Sunday, January 10, sixty years ago, Roberto Bortoluzzi greeted radio listeners from the central studio and started 'Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto', a program created a few months earlier by Bortoluzzi himself together with Sergio Zavoli, Giorgio Boriani and Guglielmo Moretti. The matches broadcast in that first episode of 1960 were five: the legendary Nicolo' Carosio on the main pitch for Milan-Juventus, Piero Pasini followed Bologna-Napoli, Enrico Ameri for Roma-Vicenza, Amerigo Gomez for Fiorentina-Sampdoria and Nico Sapio for Genoa-Spal. Tonight Rai Radio1 will celebrate the anniversary with a big party ('Happy Birthday Tutto il calcio. A 60-year long story') which will be held in room A of the Rai studios in via Asiago 10 in Rome from 21:00 pm to 23:30 pm. With Filippo Corsini at the microphone, flanked by Savino Zaba and Ludovica Mantovani, president of the Board of Directors of the Women's Football division of the FIGC, the history of the program will be retraced through the voices of the most famous hosts and radio commentators, and also, the intervention of the protagonists, of the insiders, of footballers, coaches and managers of Italian football and also with a bit of music, alternating the stories of football with the most important voices of the Italian music scene. During a recent speech at the MM7 National Football Award dedicated to Mario Mariozzi, a great right winger of the 50s and 60s, then coach and sports director of several Lazio teams, Cucchi explained the spirit of the editorial team of 'Tutto il calcio': "Words are useful, especially if you talk about matches on the radio, because our role is to ensure that those who listen reconstruct, in their imagination, the images that the radio doesn't have". And the radio commentators who made the history of 'Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto', from Enrico Ameri to Sandro Ciotti and Riccardo Cucchi, were absolute masters of this. Today things are different and, with the advent of TV, the way of commenting on matches has also changed. “I have the impression that in contemporary football news they want to convey to us, more than emotions, anxiety – added Cucchi – I think they are too anxiety-provoking. After all, on television you don't need many words: it's useless to say 'Del Piero sprints down the wing and moves towards the byline'... we see it with our own eyes". “I would like to add another element that I am not entirely convinced by – he continued – and that is to raise the tone in the belief that screaming is in itself emotion. The scream itself is not emotion. Emotion is the real one you feel when entering a stadium, it is the ability of the person telling the story to convey their authentic emotion."
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