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Igor Protti left us with his words, spread on social networks by his family after the death of the Tsar, who passed away at the age of 58 after a long illness. Less than a month ago, the striker from Romagna, whose career was mainly linked to Livorno and Bari, accompanied his daughter Noemi to the altar: "You succeeded and I will never thank you enough for this", she wrote. The whole of Italy mourns him, starting from its cities: Livorno has announced city mourning today, Saturday 20 June, while in Rimini the stadium will be open on Sunday for the public greeting, and in Bari - where the ashes will land next Friday - the mayor Vito Leccese has announced that a symbolic place of the city will be dedicated to him. In Cecina, where his funeral home was set up, several protagonists of Italian football took turns, including Massimiliano Allegri from Livorno. With Protti, one of the greatest provincial strikers in Italian football leaves us, the only one together with Dario Hubner to manage to become top scorer in Serie A, Serie B and Serie C. Protti was also the only one to win the title of top scorer in Serie A with a relegated team (Bari), in the 1995/1996 season, on equal merit with Giuseppe Signori. The two were then not called up for Euro '96 by Arrigo Sacchi, who preferred Enrico Chiesa to them. Endless images remain of Protti: the return to Livorno, where he promised to return to take the team to Serie B and managed to bring it to Serie A. But also the Bari train, perhaps the best-known team celebration in the history of football. What remains, above all, are the words of those who loved him. “What Protti said in Livorno was Gospel,” said Aldo Spinelli, president of his Livorno club. Sandro Tovalieri, with whom he composed an extraordinary goal duo, added: "Today I lose a friend, but more generally Italy loses an extraordinary person on a human level." Thus Walter Mazzarri: “I had a relationship with Igor that went beyond the coach-player bond.”
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