

116 minutes
10/16/1970
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.

Alberto Sordi
as Benito Fornaciari / Libero Fornaciari

Margarita Lozano
as Erminia

Daniele Vargas
as don Regazzoni
Carlo Taranto
as l'allenatore José Buonservizi

Tina Lattanzi
as Amelia Fornaciari
Omar Sívori
as se stesso
Giuliano Todeschini
as farmacista

Teodoro Corrà
as il medico della squadra

Dante Cleri
as ragioniere Quintino Braglia
Rino Cavalcanti
as sindaco Bulgarelli

Elena Pedemonte
as signora Guardavaccaro

Rosita Torosh
as la moglie del giocatore Zanon

Carla Mancini
as la moglie di uno dei calciatori
Franco Accatino
as Celestino Guardavaccaro
Edgardo Siroli
as Scipione il barista
Francesco Sormano
as lo zio Monsignor Montanari
Aldo Bettini
as se stesso
Sergio Santarini
as se stesso
Giorgio Ghezzi
as se stesso
Dino Magli
as Trinca