Italian Soccer Teams Pay Tribute To Ennio Morricone
deadline.comTom Grater International Film ReporterNews this week that Ennio Morricone, the composer of numerous timeless film scores, had died at the age of 91 was met with an outpouring of grief and tribute from the international film community.
But that emotion also stretched well beyond the biz, as was evidenced at this week’s round of soccer fixtures in his native Italy.Morricone, a lifelong fan of the capital city team AS Roma, received tributes up and down the country, including at his hometown club, which showed pictures of the composer and took the unconventional move of playing his score for Once Upon A Time In America through the stadium’s loudspeakers as players walked out for Roma v Parma (which the hometown team won 2-1, Morricone would no.
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