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Zaniolo: “I, Roma and Mourinho, will show how much I’m worth”

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The Giallorossi talent confesses to Sportweek, tomorrow on newsstands with the Gazzetta: “An honor for us to have such a coach”

Paws. He says it once, twice, three, a hundred times. Nicolò Zaniolo can’t wait to start over. Take back what is his, Roma. “I spent the winter in the stands hoping, every Sunday, that the coach would turn around and call me, although I knew it was impossible …”. And now that Professor Fink, the crusader wizard, has uttered the fateful word “healed”, it is no longer in the skin. Fortunately, in a month and a few days (the right one should be July 4th in Trigoria), he will be in retreat with his Rome and the worst will be archived. There finally, reality will surpass the imagination.

Tears and photos

We meet him in the shadow of the Colosseum, to shoot the cover of the next Sportweek, on newsstands tomorrow with the Gazzetta. And our afternoon is more fun than we thought. Sympathetic and at ease in front of the lens. Fast and measured during the interview. Nicolò is top, to put it in youthful language. A boy, with the shoulders of a gladiator. Who knows how to cry and tell it. “The last time I did it I was in Amsterdam”. For Holland-Italy of Nations League, on 7 September 2020, “the time I broke the cruciate of my left knee”, 8 months after my right. The last book he read … is the next one: “The driving license quizzes”. The last message he sent, between one photo and another, was to his mother Francesca: “She wants to know how the shooting is going, I told her that I’m having a lot of fun”. Sincere and very tough.

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José and happiness

It is not for everyone to fall and get up. To do this he had to hit rock bottom, despair, but then he brought out the courage and strength of the great. He tells us about that goosebumps pain. Fatigue, fear, bad thoughts. But also the goals and the affection of the fans who have brought him here. Happiness has few letters, but magical: Mou’s Rome. With a great coach and equal prospects, the return to the field is even better. And all to write. They are heard often, almost every day. The Special One loves young people and immediately said that Zaniolo can’t be touched. Indeed, if he pampers him and encourages him to train, not to give up an inch. Nicolò asks no more: “We are excited, we can’t wait to show him how much we are worth. He is a great coach, he has won a lot. For me it is an honor to be trained by him. Meanwhile, he works every morning at the Kinemove center in Pontremoli to get in shape, as the coach wants. “My holidays will be at home with my parents, between La Spezia and Porto Venere. Training in the morning, friends in the afternoon” he told us. And he is already there, at home with his parents. And the gym: he’s been there for eight months, but he doesn’t complain.

Letters and scales

It was a climb, but he never felt alone. He read a lot: letters and messages, greetings, support, hope. Of friends, relatives, teammates, coaches and strangers. Among these, Ancelotti, who went through it before him “and who tried to console me and play down: in my day medicine was not so strong”. Nicolò talks about himself, without forgetting Fonseca. Without neglecting the scale of priorities and the passion for music that makes you feel summer even when it’s winter outside. Without hiding the flaws with the attached nonsense: “I have to improve, I know. But you become a man even if you make a mistake”. And without forgetting the latest bitterness: the European vanished. Italy, cheering for you This is where Nicolò scores and gets to the heart. “Italy comes before me” he says when we ask him how to give up the national team, the goal that has put him back on his legs and motivated him for eight months of crutches and rehabilitation. He chased him and hoped for it, but he had to surrender to the choices of the city Roberto Mancini, who left him at home albeit with regret and after following him in this second ascent. “I understand the coach’s choice,” he says. And it is convincing, although it was not easy to digest the no. “Whoever deserves it on the pitch plays. I spent months in front of the TV. And now I will be their first fan”. Still in front of the TV, but for a little while. Here, after having known how to manage the tripping of life, Nicolò has learned the art of patience and (also) to put others in front of him. After all, his goal was to return better than before. And if a good morning starts in the morning … Welcome back Nicolò.

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