Fiction
October 2020
Il Caso Sindelar
Le inchieste del Commissario Baroni
by Carlo Bazan, Carlo Rispoli
Milan, 1939. Commissioner Andrea Baroni, of the Porta Vittoria Police Station, is engaged in a special investigation. Twelve-year-old Matthias Sindelar spent his days, with his peers, kicking an old leather ball in the middle of the street. Soccer was his passion, he was noticed by the team selector Herta ASV in Vienna and from there he took off towards a well-deserved career and the number ten jersey of the Austrian national team. So far it would seem a story like that of many sports champions. But it is not so. Sindelar, who was called by the fans the Mozart of soccer, for his drunken dribbling, has actually become a symbol of the struggle against all dictatorships and regimes and at the same time a mystery, a mystery, which is still debated today.
