The bird of prey is 13 years old and never fails together with the falconer Bernabè Menu based on chicken and turkey and lots of photographs every day
AURONZO. Star life. Call it an eagle … Waiting for the Unripe and Immobile Eurocamps at Auronzo there is no Milinkovic Savic or Felipe Anderson to keep up: the star of Lazio is always Olimpia. Commander Sarri also fell in love with it, between a tactical soup and a Biancoceleste social event. When this marvelous bird of prey arrives at the “Rodolfo Zandegiacomo” sports field aboard a Renault Kadjar and in the company of the inseparable falconer Juan Bernabè, the mobile phones begin to take pictures like crazy and the children queue in front of his tent. You can also be, underneath, Romanists, but how can you resist the charm of a wild animal, which poses in front of the camera and, with some precautions, is caressed on the neck, like a cat?
Olimpia is a Canadian golden eagle, which thirteen years ago came out of the egg, which her mother had laid in Alaska. It seems to see that it was a chick and it seems almost incredible that as an adult it has a wingspan of about four meters and almost celebrates when it sees the president Claudio Lotito. Bernabè, 53, Spanish from Cadiz (Andalusia) taught her from an early age, making him his adoptive father and teaching her to fly in public. The maiden voyage was that of the home debut of the 2010/2011 championship against Milan. There was some fear that September 22, as happens for any first time, but it was a sight to see her take off with the white and blue ribbons tied to her legs and land, when at the foot of her perch she saw a piece of tasty salmon. The match ended 1-1: Milan in the lead with Ibrahimovic and a draw by Floccari, ten minutes from the end.
Since then, it has always enchanted, accompanied by the soundtrack of the official hymn “Vola Lazio flies” by Toni Malco or “So già du ore” by Aldo Donati. And since then, he has always spent part of his working holidays in Cadore. In the team only goalkeeper coach Adalberto Grigioni has been in the Biancoceleste for longer than she has.
Olimpia spends the night at the Auronzo hotel, together with the rest of the party. Needless to say, she is in the room with Bernabè, perched on her green branch and treated like a queen. Lunch and dinner with chicken or turkey breasts, but despite always having the jelly ready, he remains an eagle and has never lost his instinct to hunt. The only thing she is not allowed to do is fly freely in the Cadore skies, perhaps as far as the Tre Cime. In 2012, she fled to Mount Agudo and that day many were in pain for at least an hour, before her return to the stadium, amid applause. Now there would be a GPS device to track her down, but it is always better not to risk it, also because there is no shortage of potential boyfriends around the Dolomites. Legend has it that, at the same time, Victoria, the friend of Benfica Lisbon’s mascot, also fled.
Its official residence is at number 1000 in via Santa Cornelia, in Formello (Rome), the sports center of Lazio. In its part, some flights are happy to do so, also to keep fit. In biancoceleste, he won two Italian Cups and as many Italian Super Cups, always taking to the field, at the end of the matches, to celebrate with the boys. On Wednesday he returns to Rome and then off again for a week in Germany, in Marienfeld. The start of the championship is not far off and Maurizio Sarri is also counting on her. –