Sublime

“Adriano gave up millions to go home.” 

Yes, maybe I gave up millions. But what price would you put on your soul? How much money would you pay to get back your  essence?

John McDermott, who was working the sidelines that day, recalled how Brazilian photographers were crying as they clicked away. Several years later, Rossi published a book entitled Ho fatto piangere il Brasile (I made Brazil cry).

Avoid the boring 15-minute walk from the station to Piazza Brà.

I was impressed by Jürgen’s practical approach. Rather than demanding the perfect player, he was willing to find creative solutions to maximise each player’s strengths and minimise their weaknesses. He often talked of his preference for players with one or two ‘extreme characteristics’ – game-changers. If and when those game-changers had weaknesses

in seiner Schulklasse etliche italienische Arbeiterkinder gewesen, und mit denen hätte er nie Probleme gehabt,

sie hörte die Ankommenszeiten und die Abfahrtszeiten und die Verspätungen über die Lautsprecheranlage: das Italienisch immer perfekt, das Deutsche lächerlich verstümmelt.

It rained early on my first day at San Giorgio and I learned the truth of a popular saying used all over Italy, Il buon contadino va in cantina quando piove, which translates roughly as ‘When it rains the sensible farmer goes to the pub’,