There is a tragedy greater than the sporting one that is characterizing the Bitontonow in free fall in the championship D series, group H. And it is the sad epilogue that the passage from Bitonto of a young footballer had. The goalkeeper was savagely beaten by hooded individuals after a football match Assane Diame he decided to abandon our city, an almost unwelcome guest. The twenty-year-old Senegalese must have felt alone and hunted by everyone, guilty of having made some decisive mistakes in as many matches for the neroverdi and, after deleting words, images and even the profile photos of social accounts, he decided to leave.
Officially, because he has to conclude the Ramadan elsewhere – which he could have peacefully done here -, in truth for something else. A boy who came from a distant land, seeking his fortune to avoid the dangers of a drama bigger than himself, perhaps only expected to be welcomed with affection and warmth (as I believe only Graziano did, a true supporter of our colours, and Marcello, a magnanimous man), and instead…
And to think that under the care of the iron sergeant Gianni Iurino he had also made giant strides in his technical, athletic and human evolution, which also translated into some prodigious interventions which earned him important points for the Bitontina deficit ranking, soon forgotten by the typical blindness of the fans.
Because making mistakes is an untreatable fault, not the indispensable condition for growth. And responding to the legitimate objection is an indelible sin (but can a foreign heart, a puppy one at that, have the clarity to withstand loads of criticism?). Not having been able to embrace a fragile brother who only dreamed of escaping poverty and finally fulfilling himself is the greatest defeat for our community, afflicted by an atavistic invisible and ever-meandering evil, which we do not know how to define…
