Challenges in sport and in life: the conference atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma
9 May 2017 - Win, lose and then get ready to win again. In the Sport and Culture Week the stories of the mayor of Amatrice Sergio Pirozzi, the former national volleyball player Sara Anzanello and the former rugby prop Martin Castrogiovanni they break intoUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in the conference "Personal balance and sport". A fulminant hepatitis for the volleyball champion in 2013 and a neuroma in 2015 for the rugby player were the most touching testimonies of a meeting that focused on the importance of personal balance in sport, study and life.
Clashes, sometimes inevitable - recalled the two champions who both retired last year - can be the key to unblocking difficult situations. "At times I haven't been very diplomatic - confessed Anzanello - but the important thing is to communicate and always look for the positive element". So the energetic and likeable Castrogiovanni he recalled that in his "unbalanced equilibrium" communication was fundamental, also because in the relationship with the coach, as with the university professors, "he is the one who decides, and therefore the important thing is to get the result". Therefore, if challenges and tensions can make personal balance grow, sport is a great master in this.
For the mayor of Amatrice Pirozzi "sometimes the clash you have to cercarlo to shake up the team". The mayor recounted at length how his experience as a coach helped him deal with the unpredictable drama of the earthquake that devastated his village at a height of one thousand meters, killing 238 people. "How coach, I've always had to decide under stress, from substituting players to responding to press conferences: the earthquake made us understand that our points of reference had changed". easy and the desire to look to the future.
For Pirozzi balance is also knowing how to recognize one's limits and in answering a question from Paolo Assogna of Sky Sport 24 on the clash between Mister Spalletti and Francesco Totti he underlined: "Every man must understand when he has reached the top and leave as a winner in the awareness of own limits". The future of Amatrice, on the other hand, lies in projects such as the new international scientific sports high school: "It was my dream and today it can count on 29 students: I see a rosy future because sport is a great school of life". And on his future, this time political, after the many gossip that give him the centre-right candidate for the 2018 regional elections, the mayor of Amatrice replied: "I am a man of the institutions: if they offer me a seat there is nothing wrong, but I have to be in charge - he underlined. A coach is chosen for two reasons, either because you bring the sponsor or because you're good. I could only consider a candidacy if someone chooses me because I'm good, not because I bring the sponsor." On the other hand, Pirozzi also reiterated: "I'm lucky, because I'm the mayor of Amatrice" and specified: "I gave up being a professional coach to be mayor. Political offers...today I just have to think about making good for my team".
