He calls an elderly fan who wanted to take a selfie with his cell phone, but the gentleman in question has difficulty reaching him due to the crowd and is unable to take the photo: “Wait, don’t move away, he wasn’t able to take the photo, come back here . He has to press the red button. Done”. All of this, as mentioned, despite a chaotic and pressing crowd. This is Simone Inzaghi. An extraordinary business card for our Piacenza. And not only because he has just won a championship with his Inter team, but also because he is a positive face, a simple person, an increasingly rare figure in today’s football.
And when Piacenza expressed the desire to embrace him for the extraordinary sporting success he had just achieved, Simone had no doubts. And this morning at Palazzo Gotico he received the hug he deserves. The journalists of the national sports newspapers took advantage of it, someone asked him about his future and he replied that the championship is not over yet.
“A recognition that makes me proud”
“Clearly receiving an award in my city, where I was born and raised is a source of great pride. So I thank the mayor, all of Piacenza. It’s an award that makes me very proud and I have to be honest, in these three years at Inter I’ve gotten closer to Piacenza, especially to my dad and mum, but I’ve also come back much more often to see my childhood friends, it’s something in short, it makes me happy and it also helped me a lot“.
“I have seen many friends out here with whom I grew up as a child, I think back to the beginning in San Nicolò, a town 5 km from Piacenza, I started the youth team there together with my brother, we went all the way up to playing for Piacenza, then with a lot of commitment, desire and sacrifice we achieved the dream of our life which was to become footballers“.
“Clearly, in short, they all had important qualities but then it wasn’t easy because then the leap into the professionals at 17 wasn’t easy because the first two or three years around the various teams in Serie C wasn’t easy but in the difficulties I never gave up, I always tried to give my best and then in short I returned to Piacenza, to make my debut in Serie A, I clearly have to thank all the coaches I had in the youth sector for my career as a footballer, but in short Beppe Materazzi is the one who he gave me the opportunity to play for Piacenza continuously and then my career started from there to get to today”.
Today you are renewing the bond with this city, when will you announce the renewal of the bond with Inter?
“Well, in short, I said it, in short, after Torino: clearly winning the championship with five matchdays to spare was wonderful. Now we have five championship matches to play in the best possible way, Sunday’s match against Lazio is missing, then we will have Verona the last one and then we will meet with the club”.
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