Football, the bad-luck blue team and “the potato with caviar”: who is Spinelli, the other side of the Toti case

From Genoa to Livorno, from the sea to investigations: the shore entrepreneur of under-boat business

ROME – And then there isthe other side of the Toti case. That kind of face, and that kind of expression that Aldo Spinelli already had before taking Genoa by sea. The no longer free port of the now 84-year-old entrepreneur who in the investigation that led to the governor of Liguria being placed under house arrest must be seen as a side. We always talk about the sea. A lot of trouble.

Spinelli, originally from Palmi, Calabria, got rich in Genoa while becoming a headline for football. Now he’s back on the front page with those unchaste wiretapping, “the potato with caviar on the yacht” and all the grammar of lateral power, under the boat rather than under the table. The last package of a story that began with the packages of bills signed to take over the Almea, the beginning of everything.

Spinelli has always stood out. In Livorno they called him “yellow” because at the stadium he filled the shots of the stands with his yellow raincoat. A man of one color, Spinelli. He viscerally hated blue: “It’s bad luck”, he said. And for this reason he repainted all the transport company’s trucks. Years later, when boots with variable pantones were in fashion in football, he removed Bogdani from the lineup of his Livorno team, because the Albanian striker had blue shoes. By compromise, Bogdani surrendered.