Cornaredo is not just a stadium. It is memory, identity, belonging. With the last season in the stadium inaugurated in 1951 and the forthcoming move to the new AIL Arena starting from 2026/27, FC Lugano chooses to celebrate this historical passage with '11 times Cornaredo', a video mini-series composed of eleven episodes: a number that is anything but casual, to tell eleven symbolic matches that have marked the HCL history in the home stadium.
The journey starts today, the 1st of January 2026, with an episode that represents one of the most iconic and incredible nights experienced by FC Lugano: the elimination of Inter from the Uefa Cup in 1995.
A double confrontation that, thirty years later, remains engraved in the collective memory. The first game at Cornaredo, under an authentic downpour, ended 1-1, with Lugano able to answer with Carrasco to the Nerazzurri advantage signed by Roberto Carlos. The return match, on the 26th of September at the Meazza stadium, seemed written: on the other side there was the first Inter of the Moratti era, full of high-sounding names and great European ambitions. And instead, football overturns all predictions.
In the 85th minute, an apparently innocuous free kick changes history. The ball kicked by the hero of the double challenge Edo Carrasco overcomes Pagliuca and delivers to FC Lugano a resounding, deserved victory, daughter of courage, determination and conviction. An evening that shows how in football, on the playing field, nothing is taken for granted.
To recount that feat, in the first episode of '11 times Cornaredo', are two absolute protagonists of that team: René Morf and Edo Carrasco. Their words take us back in time, among emotions, details and sensations of a group that was able to write an indelible page of HCL history.
A tale that is not just nostalgia, but living testimony of what Cornaredo has represented for generations of fans. Because remembering means transmitting, and because some nights never stop living.
The first episode of '11 times Cornaredo' is available from today.