They trained him. They played it. They watched it grow. Five football men tell the story of the Inter midfielder’s beginnings. “He wasn’t the one with the most talent, but he had a fierce desire and didn’t stop running.” Like today
If a good morning starts in the morning, that Nicolò Barella would become a soon-to-be one is understood immediately. “I was friends with his uncle Pino, who had a house in the country. With the family, on Saturdays we went to eat with him and then kicked the ball four times at the nearby pitch. There was this little boy, he must have been three or four years old, who would get in the way and frolic from side to side without ever stopping. He ran after the ball and always wanted it at his feet, like all children do. But woe to him if his team lost: he would get very angry. To educate him about defeat, Pino occasionally whispered to me: “Come on, let’s make him lose”. The problem is that then that planted a mess that would tear your ears out “.
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