I was a child I always played basketball was the sport that I liked best, in fact the My country was one of the few that instead of wanting to be like Roberto Baggio , Karl Malone wanted to be .
I really believe that one day I played in the NBA, but I did also realize that while to grow a tail was quite simple, to be like Malone, so big, so muscular, but especially so black, well, I simply had to be reborn, and then for a bit 'of time I put aside basketball and decided to enroll school football.
There the first thing I noticed was that the coach would not have called more "coach" but "mistèrrr" and especially that school children were more fanatical about football than playing basketball, perhaps because the Serie A in the end was closer (at least ideologically) the NBA.
My coach called Gemini, the last name I never knew, was a sturdy man with the mustache that blacks made him look like a coach of the Soviet Union, but the similarities ended there and with us was good and left us free to have fun without too many restrictions. Gemino taught us the basic rules of football and his commandments, in the field, were very simple and had only two: "Do not run all over the ball" and "do not be afraid of opposition." I
these two rules I have always remembered, even though I left school football and went back to dream of becoming an NBA star, but this time I wanted to be Shaquille O'Neal short, the problems I had before I had still not resolved, even if you had worsened since, if you already look like Malone was difficult to be as O'Neal was impossible even to imagine.
Last night I was watching Milan-Lazio on TV, and already the tenth minutes of the first half m'è reminded Gemini, when I saw Ibrahimovic to stop the trocar and chest, even before the ball touched the ground, four Lazio players go on the roof trying to steal the ball, the action continued and I have not given too much weight to my childhood memory, but when I saw on the left wing Emanuelson, Antonini and Ibra run on the same ball and stepping down to take it, well I could not just stop the flow of memories. Gemino had been the "mistèrr" Milan or Lazio, WOULD BE those still running around the court for not complying with the commandments.
Always watching that game I thought it would Gemino was happy to train the Naples, because Napoli is a team that has never fear, played against all the greats of the Italian Championship and also against some big European football (Liverpool, Steaua Bucharest, Benfica) without panicking , defended against large samples from rounding the mark, but never sent four men on the same attacker and never have seen three players run on the same ball, in short, the Naples team in recent times is a quiet that you do not take anxiety, to say the Naples with Gemini is a team "religious" because the commandments ...
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