This season hasn’t been the season of consecration for Riccardo Sottil either, although the Fiorentina winger has returned to hit some good shots recently. However, the definitive explosion that everyone was hoping for and waiting for from the class of 1999 has not yet arrived: physical problems, above all, have affected their path in recent years, making it particularly discontinuous.
The son of art born in 1999 has this final of the season to try to write a different story with himself finally protagonist of Fiorentina. Perhaps trying to contribute with a more continuous presence to a team goal, such as the victory of a trophy that he himself hoped for immediately after the passing of the late Gigliato general manager Joe Barone.
This Sottil’s touching social letter after Barone’s death: “Hi Joe, what an immense sadness in our hearts today, it all happened so quickly that it doesn’t seem true, I’m writing these words to you with a big lump in my throat, they are words that come from the bottom of my heart and I want to dedicate them to you. You are you were the person who believed in me from the first training sessions that you watched in Moena when you joined this club, you were always there to fight on the front line for all of us, always putting your face to it. How many times did we talk to each other, how many times you called me into your closet to talk about me and how much you wanted to see me at the top, always, how many jokes about that shot to the “far post”, but as you said, I can only say THANK YOU JOE for how you treated me from the first day. It won’t be easy, but when we take the field Fiorentina will play above all for you and to try to lift a trophy that you have dreamed of for a long time. A hug to the whole family, to your children. May the earth be light on you. Riki” .
