The penultimate battle between two European teams... British or Italian, will fight to take their country for the first time in history to the Guineas 100 Cup (Photo Studio Borlenghi)

The British Ineos Team UK by Ben Ainslie and the Italian Luna Rossa by Francesco Bruni and James Spihill will open the Prada Cup today, from which the winner will challenge Emirates Team New Zealand in the struggle to get the American Cup next March.

But first the two defiants will have to see the faces in this great final between two teams looking to return the Jarra de las 100 Guineas to Europe. The English because they lost her in 1851 and never came back. This will be the first final for INEOS Team UK and the third for Luna Rossa (2000, 2007 and 2013). In 2000 he was able to move on to the American Cup to Team New Zealand in Auckland, after winning the Louis Vuitton Cup final to America One.

On this occasion he will face the English team that comes to the final of the Prada Cup after having won all the flashes at the Round Robin in which they participated next to the Rossa Moon and American Magic. The English team leaves a priori as a favorite and has had more time to develop their ship, but Luna Rossa warns that it has also evolved in these two weeks after it has exceeded 4-0 in semi-finals to American Magic.

The final of the Prada Cup will start on February 13 (early Friday to Saturday in Spain), with the first two clashes, and can be extended until February 22. The winner will be the best of 13 clashes, with the first one to seven, taking the trophy and going on to fight the America Cup.