Inter, the night of Pio Esposito in Cagliari

The long messianic expectation has ended, the time of Pio Esposito has officially started: a happy era for Inter, who found a brilliant inside the house, and for Italian football, who is looking for a blue icon to vote for. What everyone was waiting for it could only happen here, in front of his brother Sebastiano, excited even if dressed in different colors, and with his parents and sister to watch from above. The older brother Sasà was just missing, returning with his spice from the unfortunate trip to Venice, but it was still a family party. The most classic, with Brindisi on the terrace: the Cin Cin at 82 ‘, when the smallest of the house that had entered 18 minutes earlier finally put the foot at the right time.

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That sinking in the search for the first goal of life in A, which tended a little to the obsession, is now forgotten: the cap, the rest of the journey should be downhill. The new goals should flow more naturally, as has always happened in Pio’s short career. Moreover, on the bench there is a coach-Papà who caressed him as a child and found him a man, 20 years old, with centimeters and kilos from the giant of the attack. Once, he rolled the captain of the spring to his arm, even if he played under age, and the young man replied with a hat -trick. It was February 15, 2023, it was always Cagliari-Inter, even if in a youthful version: you want to believe that it is all a coincidence, but here there is a precise destiny that guides the journey. The coincidence is well known to the father Agostino who, descending from the stairs of the Unipol Domus, yesterday did not believe it yesterday: “What a emotion, a crazy joy,” he said running away. When Pio was just six years old and Seba nine, in 2011, brought all the troop from Castellammare to Brescia: he understood that football would be the fate of his boys.

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On his golden night Pio was submerged by the hugs and caresses of everyone (“He has his head right, listen, but you have to leave him quiet …” Lautaro warned; “We need young forts”, he huddled the patriotic Bastoni), but at the end of the game it was he who was looking for Sebastiano. The Cagliari was happy for her brother, but also disconsolate for the evening in which she did not guess much. There has been a time when the international had the same expectations for him too, but for the second son the wheel the wheel turned differently, between his errors and almost useless loans in B. perhaps he would have served to have a mentor as it was and is Chivu for Pio and, instead, when he exploded with greater earliness of the brother, in Appiano he ruled the Lukakucrazia of Antonio Conte. In Cagliari he will perhaps be able to find his place in the world, but it is certainly Milan, where he lives and wants to take root, the house of the Exposito, a star who illuminates Inter today, tomorrow and also the day after tomorrow.