So the actress and sports, with a past as a footballer: “The work in Lega Pro? A great gym, but as a woman is complicated.” And on the national team: “Bring Italy to the World Cup, children don’t cheer anymore”
He is in Sardinia for a little healthy family holidays, but last night Cristiana Capotondi – who was also head of the blue – could not fail to be glued to the TV for the quarterfinals of the European Championship against Norway. His love for football, which he also played for a long time (“I was exterior of defense”) is known, so we decide to start this interview by talking about something else, exploiting the title of the Rai series of which he is the protagonist with Lucia Mascino and which will air next autumn: the recipe for happiness.
Sportingly speaking, is there a recipe for happiness?
“I would be very happy if I had twenty years less, so that I could do all sports not from the sofa! I am at the sea, I once swarm for kilometers, now I do more struggle … I would like to get back that energy and the freedom that gives you a physique that follows you in your desires”.
It is good for sport to the sofa gives us good satisfactions.
“Yes, if I think of tennis today we have great characters, male and female. And then the blue to the European have left an important mark. The quarters remain a huge conquest, if we think about the previous edition it is another going, the result of a great job and a strong cohesion among the girls. And I like to remember Elena Linari, who has recently graduated: they are women who follow a path of personal and intellectual growth. Won by girls and politics that recognized the rights of players showing attention to the movement “.
Of the two years in Lega Pro with Ghirelli what remains?
“It was a great gym, I understood the dynamics that move the world of football, which is a pyramidal organization, so the things that do not work at the top very often depend on the base. I think for example to the nurseries, who are not so alive today. But those years have also made me know many extraordinary stories, of a social value in the area. The others. And then there is the entrepreneurial aspect, because these clubs are also companies that sometimes work very well.
What did not like it?
“Often we clash with the lack of specific skills and with an attitude towards women not respectful of the genre. I, who lent my will and my humble ability to put myself in the service of something for free, I paid a lot to be the fact of being a woman and not coming from the world of football. But in Italy it is always difficult to change things or give accelerations even towards an aging of habits and practices. I would redo without hesitation.
Speaking of deep ties, Rome?
“I am a Trasteverina, I have yellow and red in the DNA given that my grandfather, Giorgio Capotondi, was the accompanying team of the team. But over the years I have become more secular, I have lived so much in Milan or I have seen dozens of international matches especially in Milan, Inter and Juventus. While my relationship with Roma, especially after he left Totti, is a little changed. My true passion are now the Champions. Years have expressed the most beautiful football that I have ever seen. of will applied to talent and completeness as an athlete even before as a footballer “.
Of the Serie A which technician does he like?
“Inzaghi has done a fantastic work at Inter, as well as Gasperini at Atalanta. I love Mancini very much, that I think he has somehow delivered the triple in the hands of Mourinho. And then Mr. Claudio Ranieri, who brought kindness into football”.
And his no to the national team?
“As an Italian I was very sorry, he would have done a fantastic job even from an emotional point of view. He would have explained to the players that their thoughts on the flag must be kind, that they must take care of that symbol, of that shirt. But I think it is a little tired and the choice of wanting to maintain a commitment made deserves respect”.
“It will be nice, I see of the planning, although I remain of the idea that De Rossi deserved a little more time. Maybe it was better for him.”
Will Italy go to the World Cup?
“I hope so! Who like me was born in 1980 know that Gattuso has never pulled the leg back, that he has strength, ability and determination, I hope he can transmit them. I don’t know if it will be enough, but I throw an appeal: bring Italy to the world championship at all costs and in every way, it was also with arms, because children do not cheer and is a serious sin. A profound transformation is needed, a change of mentality that brings a greater respect Serie A and the clubs in which they grew up, as well as for the national team shirt.
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