Journey into Valentino’s childhood: at school he ate crayons, drew Porsches and sent love cards being told ‘no’. Once he hid in a toilet in a bar to escape the Carabinieri
There is a term that is pronounced every time when, going to dig into Valentino Rossi’s past, those years as a child among dozens of other children, you try to ask those who knew him what they perceived about him. “Special”. It is pronounced by Maria Antonietta Donati, the teacher who had it in the 4th and 5th grade; Tiziana Martinucci and Umberto Uguccioni, classmates in kindergarten and school, tell it with a smile; Mario Gabanini, the former sergeant of the Carabinieri station in Tavullia, admits it with the smile of someone who, through his fault, has seen some hairs go gray; almost declaims it, eyes that light up with a passion that has never subsided, Alberta Gambini, for all “la Berta”, the owner of the newsstand that has been a meeting point in the country for over 100 years: “I was born in 1943 and father Serafino, ‘Fino’, because we like to shorten names, he already had it: he sold newspapers, cut hair, repaired shoes “.
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