was a warm winter evening in the open air and as I turned through the historical sights of Rome, was getting stronger in my conviction that explain what it means to "Rome" for Roman is a fan something really difficult, you can only perceive what it means living among the Romans, speaking with them about the Roma players.
I walked and I wondered, however, thought that he feels a fan of Rome is probably the same as proof that a fan of Napoli, Palermo, usually a fan of a team in the South, which as we all know is much as it were "attached" to their team and its players.
thought and thought but could not convince me, it was not like that, because it is not so sure.
The Napoli fan, for example, is very tied to their team, their colors, Maradona is revered and even for all the Neapolitans will forever be one of them, but I am convinced that this relationship is also due to the fact that the Neapolitan fan and usually fans of teams in the South see in football, the triumphs of their own team a sense of revenge to everyone and everything, so those players that give you happiness, newspaper headlines, victories, etc.. become idols, since the city through their returns to be important, the world remembers the South, all too often unfairly mistreated.
Going back to the love of a fan Neapolitan own side is therefore very different from that of a supporter in Rome. But why? What is so different? Well, what's different is that the Roman has no sense of revenge, because Roman is considered lucky already, it is considered the best, "er meio", live, how to say many in the most beautiful city in the world! But the fan does have a Roman passionate love to the Roma, an unconditional love, a love unlimited and total, Roma are madly in love, period. What surprises me is that for a Roman de Rome "his idols are like a relative of the family, if Totti, but for example, or even De Rossi Perrotta, have the influence it is as if each one had a sick in the house! They talk as if they saw them every day, as if they lived firsthand the daily operations of their idols. An example: last week the Rome played in Kiev and in the hours before the game and the coach few Roma players have made a substantial offer to a hospital for children, a wonderful gesture, nothing to say. The news I had read in the newspaper, but when a fan told me he saw Roman in his eyes and felt a deep pride in his words, an immense pride, his Rome and then his family and then himself himself, had wrought a beautiful, something admirable, of which he was a party, because Roma players are part of the family! This is difficult for me to explain, because the light was in the eyes of man, of that fan, no adjectives, must be seen, lived, one can not describe it in words, would risk trivializing! This is the Roman fan, this means love Rome!
As I continued to walk again and more and more admired by the beauty of Rome, I thought that there is only capable of loving another cheerleader in a way very similar but not identical, their team, that of Genoa! I say this not because of the beautiful language of his native land called Liguria but because, believe me, the life of fan in Genoa player is really close relationship with the fate of the Griffon! If a person lives for a short period of his life in Genoa can not help but breathe the condition I have described, the fan Genoa player, the people of Genoa player (as he liked to call it the late Professor Franco Scoglio), is not "Hooch" but it is there, in silence, suffering with his own team, is ready to rejoice and again to suffer, but it's always there in the trenches, tied to the Old Griffin, proud of their Genoa, and when the leader Osvaldo Bagnoli, Pato Aguilera and the explosive force of Thomas Skuravy challenged Juve and Milan, and when in danger of relegation in C1 C2!
Here, these two stories together in that beautiful Sunday in Florence where the famous "third time" of rugby has become a reality, that is the losers leaving the field have hailed the winners to honor him, remind us that football is a game, the better.
the next.
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