The midfielder presents himself to Fiorentina by telling his passion for the Greek epic: he is not the first footballer who loves books, which goes against the stereotype of the category. Before him Masina, Pavoletti, but also champions of the past such as Buffon, Zoff and Pessotto
Hans Nicolussi ankle is rereading the Iliad. Which means: 1) who has already read it (bravo), 2) that he liked it so much that they reread it (admirable) and 3) that if it is true that the invincible Achille, so fierce in battle, knows the value of friendship and pity, even the newly purchase of Fiorentina – telling the pleasure of reading – knows a good way to look at the world, looking for the truth of the men who surround him, Agamemnon in Dodò. And in any case it will have to sooner or later dispel it this taboo of the footballer who appears to a book in his hand immediately he immediately makes one think of a photomontage or one of those artifices of artificial intelligence; The commonplace of the player who – as in that old joke – guest of a television program confesses to having read a book, is urgent to dribble. “Once read Rin Tin Tin,” he explains. They stop him: “I read …”. And he: “No, no, but that I read, it was Rin Tin Tin”.