Roberto Baggio he told his story again in an interview given to his friend and colleague Alex Del Piero. At his side there daughter Valentinatoday custodian of his image as well as traveling companion, with whom he remembered the pain and the profound change that their family underwent, after the 2024 robbery.
The robbery at Baggio’s house that changed everything
The occasion was the World Sports Summit a Dubaias reported La Gazzetta dello Sport. With two legends on stage like Roberto Baggio and Alex Del Piero one might have expected a nostalgic conversation about memories on the pitch, but the “Divin Codino” focused on something else entirely. What those present witnessed was the story of father-daughter relationship and of a family that found itself forced to rewrite everything, after an event that violated the privacy of the home.
For years the champion has chosen the silence and privacy of his Venetian homeland, away from the spotlight, surrounded by the love of his wife Andreina Fabbi and his children Valentina, Mattia and Leonardo. But this serenity was unfortunately shattered by violence robbery suffered in their villa in 2024 at the hands of six criminals.
Valentina gave voice to their pain over that “very bad episode”as his father defined it: “I was the only one who wasn’t at home when the robbery happened, I saw how my father reacted: it was a shock in our lives”. Then he explained how everything changed radically from that moment on: “Nine months ago we started adding some changeswe travel together in Italy and abroad.”
The relationship with his daughter Valentina and the family
A choice dictated by need to be close and to no longer waste even a moment of shared time. “It changed the vision of my life – explained Baggio -, in those months the desire was born in me to inform my family and my children of many things. They had to understand who I was, that’s why we are here together today: it is the ‘fault’ of Valentina, my daughter. This experience binds us even more, we share many things together which give this relationship even more energy. Being a parent is the most difficult job, you are prone to making mistakes but the love for the family always comes out.”
The champion also returned to another topic that is very close to his heart, linked in a certain sense also to the way in which he managed to deal with the bad experience: the Buddhism. “I have been practicing it for 38 years – he said – and I am eternally grateful to those who introduced me to it. It changed me for the better, it was the greatest luck I’ve had: it has profoundly changed my life, if we feel good we can make those around us feel good too and we change the environment around us. This is the essence of Buddhism: if we are not happy all this is impossible. I didn’t impose it on my children, Valentina for example is not.”
