Marcianise’s boxer tells himself: “When they took away gold at Beijing games, I only resumed with the call of the President of the Republic”
Life, sometimes, is all a film: and at the Ciak a – practically a child – Clemente Russo would never have suspected of having to “recite” one, ten, one hundred, three hundred and eighty (380) times that he would have managed to take destiny for punches, orienting him towards himself. “If there is one thing that fills me with joy, it was the ability to represent Marcianise and Italy with my courage”. The world is the center of the ring, but around, while you hear the deaf noise of a hook, there are the golds in Chicago and Almaty in the World Cup, the silver of Beijing and London at the Olympics, the joys and also the pains, of an amateur – by choice – who sent a system to the mistake, loading it on. “I had fun, I can say it.”
Let’s start with Balla with wolves …
“In ’93 I was looking for myself in the gym and, if I could not, I attacked with his head down. The brilliant master, to whom my gratitude goes, said to me: not to make Tatanka, the bison of that masterpiece”.
Why do you get on a ring?
“It’s called social redemption. We felt the economic crisis, with the difficulties of inventing a tomorrow. Mom reproached me: if I don’t study, go to be a bricklayer. I went to the Excelsior, I fucked that world, the boxing, and I decided: this is what I will do when I grow up”.
He had various vines as a cover character …
“I recognize myself a merit: to put seriousness and commitment in all the initiatives in which I launched myself. But I always brought and kept with me, in the schedule of the car, the bag for training: the boxing was the duty, the rest the pleasure”.
Russian
Two Olympic silver
Clemente Russo was born in Caserta on 27 July 1982. He was 2007 and 2013 amateur world champion and Olympic silver 2008 and 2012.
A room is needed to keep all medals.
“And they are many more than those that are reviewed. The most important are in the safe, of course.”
From Marcianise on the roof of the world.
“It was tiring but exciting. I brought the teachings of dad and mom, I rejoiced and suffered, I made it, I did it but it is not over. I am uncontainable and now that I am the Italian flames of the flames I hope to become the best master who exists, with the dream of launching new talents. Here there is ferment, something will happen”.
The most exciting gold?
“My twins, for which my wife and I have been anxious when they were born, in the sixth month and a half of pregnancy. They remained for a long time in resuscitation but when they entered the house I found out what the happiness without limits means”.
A hard who cried in the ring.
“First World Championship, 2007
The injustice is dated 2008.
“Beijing, final against Cakchiev, tremendously unfair verdict. They were three terrible hours, after the match, I was with that medal for me of cardboard – I know, I would not have to think about it – and I could not make a reason. I realized that I had accomplished something close to the company when the cell phone began to go crazy and the phone of the President of the Republic also arrived (Giorgio Napolitano). I said, what did I combine? ”
Her childhood does not abandon her: she falls in love with children’s horses.
“We played in the courtyards of the peasants, ours is a land of work. We lived in contact with the giumente. Then a stable arose and this link was born with a splendid animal. Today I could tell her that I am a breeder, I have five”.
If it stops for a moment, where does Clemente Russo find?
“To sleep in the car, in Autogrill, between one displacement and another. By running not to give up any commitment and not feel the weight of the sacrifice.
“Not even one: I lived as I wanted and how I could. Even the errors are needed. It would be unthinkable to be wise at 25 years of age or find themselves sprinkled by that experience that comes to you only over time. Here, now I am more aware, but it is a banality and anyone at my age feels different”.
Has boxing changed or has the world change around the ring?
“Perhaps the second hypothesis is more just. Or: he recorded more. In the 60s, 70s, 80 and even after, the advertising recall of boxing was clearly superior. Now, a banner go to put it on board a football field, and there is. At that time, a match was pulled all right”.
When I won at the Olympiad, my teacher said to me: ‘There are 80 crows who want to register’
Luckily there are the Olympics …
“Every four years you live in the quarter of an hour of celebrity. Then the curtain falls and you have to wait. When I won, the teacher called me and said: Clemé, I have to close the gates of the gym, there are 80” Criature “who want to subscribe”.
He will not deny a passage on the meeting with Don King.
“He had called me ‘Bianca hope’, I went to meet him, he wanted me to fight for him and get a very high request because it seemed complicated to me there were the conditions. It could not be done.
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