Roberta Piai says goodbye to football and so thanks

Roberta Piai after twenty years of honorable service, totally rossoblu, He has decided to hang up his boots, just in the last Saturday evening. The 9 July is not another ordinary day, for the company rossoblu, but especially for the family Fattorel, He remembered the lack of the legendary Mustache, ascended to heaven 9 Years ago.

To make even share the fans further away and to thank all those who, little or both, They were closest to Roberta in this long period, she sent us a letter that will post below.

Obviously after Zanetti made the feast of farewell to football, I thought: and who am I to keep it? hahaha

It is not easy to describe and summarize twenty years of career in an evening, in a letter.

There are never enough words to express my heartfelt thanks, as that is the most appropriate term, It sounds simplistic as the conclusion to this “first life”!

In 1996 When I started playing with Vittorio, I never thought to reach this milestone, to make this pleasant, long and exciting journey.

Everything for me began when Vittorio was promoted to Serie B, there was the need to have a spring ... a bunch of little girls who were playing in Serie D can grow before moving themselves in the first team.

here, without dawn of what a ball ... so the passion began. Go for training, being with a group of friends, belong to a team!

sure, you're not the football player who has the ball in the DNA, at thirteen when parents look at you and call you gassed “Hidden” sorridi perché vedi che loro te lo dicono con entusiasmo e tu sei convinta di essere una giocatrice fortissima 😀 poi con gli anni capisci cosa volevano dire ahahah ma continui a giocare PERCHE’ YOU LIKE, and learn to do those simple steps are enough to bring out the defense with the ball at his feet.

Moreover “quarterback” It has always been synonymous with “Hidden” or “cadiz splits” The “sweeps across”... You can not squeeze blood from the walls!

But playing it learns that the technique is not the only thing you need in football, noooo, football is a lot more!

IS’ perhaps for what football they can play in many, because there are a mountain of additional features that are enclosed in a Team:

If you have a good shot can electrocute the opponent's defense, if you have the game in advance you can eliminate the strongest strikers, if you coolness in front of goal you will do the impossible goal to more, if you drag the end percorrerai dozens of times to create spaces companions, If you win all the physical contrasts, if you are constantly in training the coach will reward you, if you have vision of the game inventerai the assist for every goal your team, if you have a technical all goalkeepers fear your punishment…

This is what he taught me football all these years, It is that no player can have all the features that should have a football player, but when you understand what is the quality that distinguishes you as a player, trained, credici, Exalt, and make sure that there is no “Hidden” better than you! 😉

I shudder when I think of all the awards received, victories, the cups, promotions experienced in recent years, but these are just the rewards of a long career, When games are countless emotions that are given away to you: departure for a retreat, the meeting at dawn for travel, The visit to Italy during the championship, make 6 the morning after a victory, equalize a final damn championship, celebrate with the enemy, sweat in training 5 degree heat ... will be that when you do something with passion you tend to forget the sacrifices made ... yes because if the result is this ... I, the pyramids, shuttle bus, stopwatches, test the beep-beep, cooper and fartlek not remember anything.

To be sure, however recent years have not always been easy for various reasons, school, university, work, mister changes, changes of companions, more than once I was tempted to quit, but when you belong to a club which is the Vittorio Veneto and you find yourself having to make decisions, you understand that you can not do alone because you always have the support of someone. If it is not the ds will be a coach or a staff physician or your companions or the attachment to the shirt, and so on ... In a big family there is always the listener anything you have to say. Just do not be afraid to say it.

I thank all the people who wanted to share the last Saturday evening with me and special thanks, due, After these twenty years, I owe it to Fattorel family that allowed me to realize this dream, because it was not easy especially after knee surgery believe that it was all so still achievable and yet here I am: today 9 July 2016 to give my farewell to football also boasting a league championship.

Thank you for the confidence placed in me all these years, proud to have taken around Italy the shirt of Vittorio Veneto and to be part of this Company.

Thanks Mustache

Roberta Piai