On Sportweek the meeting in Baveno with the 18-year-old who made Italy fall in love with football: “I dream of Barça, but I cried for Inter and Lautaro is an idol”
Our afternoon in the company of Willy Gnonto begins with a wedding. Kisses and hugs with husband and wife, selfies with relatives and friends, Willy here and Willy there. Nice is not it? Who was the bridegroom, an old friend of yours? “Dunno. I don’t know him. Never seen him before.” Surprised? Try taking a trip to Baveno during this period, in the days when he reappears in the places where this 18-year-old grew up capable of ending up in the national team without having played a single match in Serie A and signing an assist and a goal in his first four. attendance, lighting a little hope on Italian football depressed by the second consecutive failure to qualify for the World Cup, and you will realize that scenes like the one described above are normal.