Inside AS Roma archive in Trigoria We were guests at the launch of the Legacy Collection

The story of a football club represents its identity, its values, its aspirations. It is a great folk tale that, like a river at high tide, carries with it, season after season, successes and defeats, tears and joys, forming downstream a collective memory made up not only of memories but also of objects, mementos and images. These are precisely what AS Roma has collected, compiled and catalogued in a decade-long project that is finally seeing the light of day. We are indeed in the archive that the Giallorossi have created in Trigoria, a unique work in the Italian world that celebrates the strong bond between the club and the eternal city. The occasion is the launch of the new Legacy Collection, a line that pays tribute to the origins of the Giallorossi with a design inspired by the iconic shirt of Società Sportiva Alba, one of the clubs whose merger in 1927 gave birth to Associazione Sportiva Roma.

Micol Schiona, archivist and head of the collection, explains: "It is a corporate archive created to tell the story of the brand, both as a place to go through the different parts that belong to Roma. We also collect, for example, all the logotypes, fonts and letterheads that represent the graphic history of the association, an invaluable heritage that can then be reused commercially." Like great brands, Roma's archive has commercial and historical value and will help to make the team's brand even better known around the world, linking it to that of the eternal city. To tell a great story, on the other hand, you need a deep memory, which the hundreds of objects, pictures and match jerseys collected at Trigoria help create.