Federica Pellegrini and Matteo Giunta, how “strange” it is to hold hands in the sunlight

The new life of Federica Pellegrini also passes through a love that can finally be lived in the light of the sun. After the Divina in Tokyo 2020 formalized the relationship with her coach Matteo Giunta («Matteo is my life partner, a fundamental person in the human and sporting path»), the two they can exchange gestures of affection even in public. And it is, for both, a “strange thing», As Federica admitted when interviewed by Arianna Ravelli on Corriere della Sera: “The other night we took hands to go shopping and we said “what a strange stuff”. We are discovering this new way of living. In recent years we have never exchanged an affectionate gesture in public, we kept the roles separate, even if it was the Pulcinella’s secret».

In fact, for some time the gossip speculated on a relationship between the champion and the coach originally from Pesaro. When their love was really born it is not known. Probably because the beginnings of their history were not easy. Giunta, Pellegrini’s athletic trainer since 2014, is in fact the cousin of Filippo Magnini. Federica’s ex boyfriend. When Federica and Filippo broke up in 2017, gossip got married with the alleged “triangle”. Did the story start when Pellegrini and Magnini were still together? Was the cause of the break coming? Questions that have never been answered. And those answers probably no one is looking for them anymore. Filippo is now happily married to Giorgia Palmas with whom he had little Mia, Federica has just formalized her story with Matteo.

Fede on his Instagram profile has recently published a video in which together with Matteo, after Tokyo, he returns to his home in Verona. The two come overwhelmed by the affection of the Pellegrini dogs. The parties they throw at both (“welcoming committee”, writes the champion accompanying the film) show that the 39-year-old was certainly not a stranger in the house. Probably the champion and the “customs clearance” boyfriend have been living together for some time.

Before, however, there were too many things to do and protect to reveal their love: “We waited for the right moment to do it, even if it was a bit of Pulcinella’s secret,” Pellegrini said at the end of July, again at Corriere della Sera. «I am happy that all those who knew it respected our will to live this story in the right roles, I am an athlete, he is my coach, for a team balance. Sometimes an important story within a work group destabilizes. At the beginning it was not easy, I was used to living everything in the light of the sun, but I am happy that we were able to maintain confidentiality. Now, inevitably, we can do what we want».

Now, finally, Pellegrini and Giunta slowly begin to discover the pleasures of normality. For example they can enjoy the ones together small daily gestures – like walking in public holding hands – that have long denied themselves to keep their love private. But even now that the relationship is official, the two will probably continue to live it quietly. Because Matteo, as pointed out by Pellegrini herself, “is much more reserved” than she: “He’s a bit of an old-fashioned guy and he’s handsome too: sometimes it is I who oblige him to post on social networks ».

The immediate future of Federica Pellegrini still foresees daily training in view of thelast engagement before the actual retirement from professionalism, Thursday’s ISL in Naples, the team performance with which he will put the definitive point on an extraordinary career. Then the Divine is expected from the commitment as member of the IOC, the International Olympic Committee, a role for which she was recently elected. So most likely a new adventure in show business will await her, after the lucky experience with Italia’s got talent. Certainly he will have Matteo Giunta at his side, with whom he could make the never hidden dream of starting a family and having a child. Ma without haste, without fuss. Now for Federica and Matteo it is time to enjoy an unprecedented normality.