The life of Oronzo Pugliese as has never been told, revealing his tricks of “the magician” and the secrets of its determination. The new edition of the book is enriched by many rare photos, provided by sportsmen and the lovers of the football in black-and-white. Next to the prestigious testimonies, among others, of the Hair, Banfi, Savoldi, Losi, De Sisti, Nocera, Gambino, Bettoni and Chiarugi appear a series of updates, curiosities, anecdotes and funny episodes. Revelations and confidences of the protagonists of the last decades of the football scene that are interwoven with the inmost feelings of the football world, to discover the hidden face of a passion that touches and moves hearts, and economic interests. A journey in a sport that men like Oronzo Pugliese from Turi launched at the highest levels, counting on their loyalty and sealing engagements fabulous with a handshake. The importance and the relevance of the figure of the “Wizard of Turi” has been confirmed, 27 years after his death, with the prestigious recognition of the insertion of an entry devoted to him in Biographical Dictionary of Italians, published by Treccani.Giovanni Cataleta

Curiosity and gossip of yesteryear, the loves and betrayals between the manuscripts and archive documents from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth century: the servant Maria and the lace of gold, the beautiful sister Giulia and the sect of the mystical charity of the flesh, a friend of Casanova, and female slaves for pleasure of the master, the lieutenant, and the murder of the lover, sex and espionage in the style of '900, when the police arrested the adulterers, the mad duke, and the lovely wifey, an elopement desperate, jealousies, and duels, stopped that it seemed, love and pain, the scandalous marquis, a neckline too, the testament of a womanizer, the macaroni, the horns, the orecchiette galliots, and many other stories, all of which are strictly true!

A supporter of Foggia, like many others, is rescued from anonymity and catapulted onto the stage from a newspaper online and from the intuition of his publisher. Thus was born Francesco da Prato, columnist unorthodox that reads and comments on the matches of Foggia, not with the eye of a professional but with the heart of the passionate. Tour Italy, following the travel of the rossoneri, with the inevitable van nine seats, and the inseparable friends of “Pacc’ of the u-Shapes”, describes in his reportage, dreams, and desires, sufferings and disappointments, tears and smiles of the fans foggiani scattered around the peninsula in the wake of Foggia. We are Legend as well, just through those chronicles “in live”, without filters or mediation posthumous, tells the story of a year – 2018 – lived dangerously, following the visceral passion of a people who, with their exodus, and the tormented vicissitudes of the team of the heart, did not talk about the Nation as a whole. The book is not strictly football, , players, results and rankings, but it tells of the emotions unique and unrepeatable that a mesh can instill in the soul of its fans, ending up inevitably to be involved in their community, the City and its Province, culture and traditions of the past and present of those who – through a football team – a glimpse of light: the hope of a landing a new of revenge and rescue.This book is basically a declaration of love for the Foggia, a team that has not betrayed ever, and is dedicated to all his fans, from near and far, those who travel for miles and go up and downfrom the steps of a curve far to incite, and always, their heroes, but also to those who from the tv to a bedroom, from a mobile phone or a pc, alone or in company, in Foggia, italy as in the rest of the world, breathe in unison for those mythical mesh striped red and black.Francis Bacchieri

"...So last outing he took Foggia. So the led and the guide where the Foggia waited and hoped to be twenty years ago. He has written an important, perhaps fundamental. Is entered in the history, selling them certainties, numbers. And in the face of certain offers the history, don't you see never go back..."Extract from the preface of Antonio Woman