It is called 'Sfumature di Azzurro' (Shades of Blue) and it is the new travelling exhibition of the Football Museum that will accompany the home matches of the National Under 21s team in 2023. The exhibition tells the story of the history and triumphs of the men's senior national team together with those of the Azzurri youth national teams and the Olympic national team, thanks to a selection of memorabilia from the Coverciano Museum collection. Reggio Calabria will be the venue for the first stop of this travelling exhibition on the occasion of the friendly match that the Azzurrini of the Under 21s will play at the 'Oreste Granillo' stadium against Ukraine on Monday, 27 March with kick-off at 20:00 CEST.

When and where. The 'Sfumature di Azzurro' (Shades of Blue) exhibition will be hosted at the Reggio Calabria Civic Art Gallery (Corso Garibaldi 329/A) and will be open from 9:00 to 12:30 (last admission time) and from 15:00 to 19:00 on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March and from 8:30 to 13:00 on Monday 27, with free admission. The initiative is sponsored by the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, which has granted the spaces of the Civic Art Gallery, where important works by some of the most representative painters in the history of Italian art will serve as a backdrop for the memorabilia of the Football Museum.

The memorabilia on display. The exhibition retraces the history of the Azzurri from the post-war period to the present day: from the European triumph of 1968, with Sandro Salvadore's jersey, to the success of EURO 2020, with the trophy raised to the sky at Wembley by coach Mancini together with his players, which will be exhibited together with the trophy won with victory in the World Cup in 2006. Other World Cup triumphs will also be celebrated, with Fulvio Collovati's shirt worn in Spain in 1982 and the ball from the Berlin final displayed.

The exhibition also presents a section dedicated to the Italian national youth teams, with some 'unique pieces' such as the green jersey of the National Junior team, worn in the 1950s, and the Under-21 European Cup won by Cesare Maldini's Azzurrini in 1996 (the only team to have won three times in a row in this tournament). Then there is Giorgio Chiellini's captain's armband, worn in 2007 on the occasion of the first match played in the 'new' Wembley - between the National Under-21 teams of Italy and England - and some memorabilia of the Olympic national team, such as the gold medal won by Italy in 1936 in Berlin (the only triumph at the Games in the history of our national football team).