Former champion Daniele Scardina talks about his tenacious recovery after the cerebral hemorrhage that struck him two years ago: “Family and faith, my strength. I ask for a stairlift to be able to leave the house alone”
It’s one of those Milanese days that are almost no longer there, the thick fog also envelops the large Telecom Tower in Rozzano. It is here, a few steps away, on the second floor of an Aler building, custodian of a melting pop of troubled existences, that Daniele Scardina fights his toughest match. Daniele has just published a book that tells his story of victories and knockouts, in the ring as in life. The 200 pages flow quickly from the first lines. All in the first person, but it is clear that it is the fruit of a collective battle, of the memories and love of his mother Mariella, his brother Giovanni, his grandmother, his lifelong friends who remained by his side, after the cerebral hemorrhage that it hit him on February 28th two years ago. The publishing house gave him the title King Toretto, and rightly so: the champion who filled the sports halls, who raised the share of Ballando, who animated the sports and social news is no longer there, but his strength remains of spirit, with progress that doctors define as surprising and he is “a miracle from God. Please, God in a big way”.