October 2018.

It took me some time to get used to retirement. To be more precise, it took 5 years (full of “threats” from my wife) to accept what I did not want to admit:

“It was time (once and for all) to withdraw from the football world”.

I had to face the inevitable course of my life. Something that I desperately tried to postpone as much as I could. And only God knows how difficult it was to accept it.

For a lifetime I had worked tirelessly every day to build my path. And finally, I had to give up to my destiny… A destiny consisting of a pension that frightened me for its monotony. Doomed to feel my body growing old far away from a football field.

And to think that I even tried to reinvent myself as a football commentator! However, my genuine and passionate approach were not successful. For sure it was a short but intense career.