After our trip across the legends of our distant past, this week we will revisit the much more recent past of Tuscan sports with one of its most controversial episodes, game 5 of the Italian national basketball championship of the 1988/89 season. From that May 27th of 32 years ago, everyone still remember the buzzer beater of Andrea Forti and those two points that would have earned Libertas Livorno their first title of champion of Italy. The many non-basketball fans definitely remember the pitch invasion at the end, the wild celebrations and the aggression to Milan shooting guard Roberto Premier. Everyone also remembers how the final basket was considered valid first and how the most popular evening news reported on the win of the Tuscan minnows against the Milan dynasty. Unfortunately the second referee had clearly heard the siren before the ball left the hand of the Livorno player. Olympia Milan won their 24th national crown, starting a controversy that continues to this day. Let us know if you like these stories by joining the conversation on our social media accounts:
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LINKS TO SOURCES (ITALIAN)
https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/livorno/cronaca/2021/05/25/news/ritorno-in-grande-stile-e-la-pl-sogna-di-nuovo-1.40312782
https://www.corriere.it/sport/20_maggio_01/basket-livorno-batte-milano-anzi-no-quando-1989-l-enichem-perse-scudetto-mentre-gia-festeggiava-ab13f012-8b03-11ea-a2b6-e57bd451de7e.shtml
https://www.basketworldlife.it/basket-room/enichem-philips-la-finale-piu-discussa-compie-trentanni.html
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2014/11/12/livorno-milano-finale-scudetto-1989-arbitro-zeppilli-troppo-tardi-non-era-canestro/1207132/
https://losservatore.com/index/2021/05/27/32-anni-fa-la-finale-scudetto-tra-livorno-e-milano/
https://www.livornotoday.it/cronaca/morto-bucci-finale-scudetto-enichem-philips-1989.html
https://www.museodelbasket-milano.it/leggi.php?s=&idcontenuti=356

BACKGROUND MUSIC
Title: Almost Time (instrumental)
Author: Pipe Choir
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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