Fourteen years later and an extended family, Eleonora Abbagnato and Federico Balzaretti they still love each other. A lot, a lot, despite the daily difficulties. A deep and intense feeling, which has been able to withstand time and the many trials of life. The étoile revealed his on TV secret of love with the former footballer without hiding difficult and complicated moments in their relationship.
Eleonora Abbagnato talks about her relationship with Balzaretti at La volta Buona
“It’s very difficult to keep everything together, especially when you have them two distant jobs. – Eleonora Abbagnato told The right time by Caterina Balivo – Now he is sporting director at Vicenza, unfortunately a few years ago he had to stop playing due to an injury and this was perhaps the most difficult decision of our life, also as a family one, because when he stopped at Roma then I signed at Rome, so perhaps by chance we are also destined to stay away.”
The dancer, who since 2015 he has directed the dance troupe of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, she added: “I am very proud of what he is building for his path because it is what he wants to do and he has studied a lot too. We make many sacrifices every day with our family, our secret is not to live together 24 hours. The love is still there, I say it publicly, after 14 years and also having had his daughters who are now grown up: one is at University in Paris and one is still with me. At this point we are a real complete familythat’s what makes me happy.”
In Balivo’s living room, Abbagnato could not help but reiterate the great love she feels for Balzaretti, the man who undoubtedly changed her life: “He he is a special man, I can repeat it a thousand times who had the courage to play and keep these two little girls; there aren’t many in the world like him.”
And then: “Federico was an atypical footballer and this helped me, however, finding the right man is not easy. I would never have had children if I hadn’t had a man like that who also supported me in my work; I was still dancing as an étoile at the Paris opera”.
The extended family of Eleonora Abbagnato and Federico Balzaretti
Eleonora Abbagnato and Federico Balzaretti are the parents of Julia, 11, and Gabriel, 9. The little girl has decided to follow her mother’s footsteps in dancing while the little boy plays football like his father. The former defender is also the father of Lucrezia and Ginevra (who are 18 and 16 years old respectively) had by their ex-partner Jessica Gasparin.
The two girls were raised by the athlete with the help of Abbagnato, as confided by Eleonora herself in an interview given to Corriere della Sera: “I am not the mother of Lucrezia and Ginevra but I raised them. It’s a particular story, Federico had sole custody. The biological mother had other things to do.”
But the artist clarified: “I love them, it’s as if they were my daughters. But if they don’t study I get angry, if they behave badly I scold them and take away my cell phone. I have always loved children, as a child I played at being a mother, my father had six brothers and sisters, a large Sicilian family”.
And finally: “The little one calls me mom, the big one calls me Ele. He was a year and a half when I first saw her. She is very close to Federico, who is a fantastic father. I would remarry him every month“.
