“Ternana: The Working Class Goes to Heaven”, a documentary about Ternana Calcio

The documentary "Ternana: The Working Class Goes to Heaven", produced by COPA 90 and directed by Martino Smick Arese and Valerio Curcio, has been released on YouTube. The Umbrian team won Group C of serie C a week ago, returning after three seasons in Serie B, but despite that the footage is dedicated to a football team, it actually wants to show the intense union there is in Terni between the team, the city and its fans. 

In Terni, in fact, football is part of the social fabric of the city, it intersects with the working-class tradition of the inhabitants of the area, which many are divided between cheering for red-green society and working in the steel company. The documentary, in fact, investigates precisely the composition of the industry-city-football triangle through some characters who represent this sport in Terni: the president Stefano Bandecchi, the vice-president Paolo Tagliavento (former referee), the fan and symbol of Terni's football Riccardo Zampagna, and the current coach Cristiano Lucarelli. The former Livorno striker is a central figure, given his Livorno heritage - a city he shares, with Terni, the ethos of the factory and worker's work - he is a central figure in telling football life in Terni. In addition to them, Arese and Curcio also interview other Ternana fans, such as some representatives of the organized groups Frank Brothers and Panze Piene.

The documentary is available for free on YouTube on the COPA 90 channel, which already in January 2020 had produced a documentary on Italian football, Derby Days, about the football rivalry between Bergamo and Brescia.