Pastore, last game A life as a halfback

The 36-year-old leaves the competitive activity with the jump in the category “I got excited, a wonderful experience”

BROSSO

After seventeen years of playing football, Daniele Pastore, captain first of Colleretto Pedanea and subsequently of Valchiusella 1999 and Asd Valchiusella, said enough. And in Vistrorio at the end of the last match of the victorious Third category championship, group of Ivrea, played the other Sunday precisely by Asd Valchiusella against Calcio Leinì, Pastore received, together with a commemorative plaque, the homage of the entire squad of the team of president Carlo Giglio, coached by Davide Scapino.

A tribute to which the guest formation has sympathetically joined. “I really did not expect such a great manifestation of affection and gratitude, so much so that I was moved to tears – says Daniele -. Since I will turn 37 in November, it seemed to me that it was time to finish with the ball. A decision taken in all serenity and of which I am sure I will not regret ».

start under the house

Before starting at the age of 10 with the soccer school, in Quincinetto, Pastore had already become familiar with the ball playing in the street in front of his home in Brosso and kicking against the walls, to educate the feet.

He played in Colleretto for six years, with a one-season spell at the Strambinese who then played in the championship of Excellence. The popular “Didon” has always been the captain of the team of presidentissimo Antonio Vernetto: “I would have stayed for life in that club, however when the team of Valchiusella 1999 was born in 2012, I could not say no to my friends who they were training, starting with Davide Scapino who would later train her »recalls Daniele.

a driver

As an attacking midfielder or demi-striker, as the years progressed he retreated to midfield, in the heart of the game. A fighting and government midfielder, Pastore. Hard in the contrasts, but always correct, so much so that in his career he has suffered just two expulsions, both for a double yellow card and not for direct “red”. And in his career he had only one serious injury, which kept him away from the field for four months at the time of Colleretto Pedanea.

The teammates with whom he played speak of him as the driver of the team and the last to surrender when a defeat was looming. «An experience of sport and life, the one that football has given me, enriching me humanly as well. There is nothing more gratifying than meeting and embracing young people with whom I have played, and realizing that I have transmitted and received something good », says Pastore finally. –

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