Dad doesn’t send her alone. He sits in the stands, observes, checks, intimidates the line judge so much that, after a glare, the referee calls security, so that the “very mad” man is removed as soon as possible. It happened at the Internazionali in Rome. And the father in question, with ball eyes and the air of a western film, is Sergio Giorgi, father of Camila, a talented Italian tennis player. Obsessive parents who make you uncomfortable, father-masters who watch over the careers of their children.
The Giorgi case is not isolated. The tyrant father par excellence, in the history of sport, it is that of Andre Agassi; a father forcing his son to train against a ball-spitting robot he built. There are dozens of examples of intrusive fathers and invaders of other people’s privacy. The worst sentence an athlete can hear from his father is this: “I do it for you”. Peter Graf, Stefi’s father, put a racket in his three-year-old daughter’s hand and told her: “If you do as I tell you, you will become the best in the world.” Being a parent is complex, being children perhaps even more.
For information ask the phenomenal Norwegian middle distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 21 years spent under the tyranny of his father Gjet Arne, who literally “built” it in the laboratory, starting to train it professionally from the age of nine with double daily sessions and frightening workloads. No wonder Jakob has an altered balance today.
Forward: Serena and Venus Williams’ dad, Mr. Richard, created the prodigy sisters of world tennis, shaping their identity from an early age; while, and here we pass to football, Veronique, the mother of the French Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot, had a heavy impact on her son’s career: not only because she manages the assets and she is the one who deals with the clubs (in the environment they call it “The Shark”), but also because it forced him to take positions (years ago the refusal to go to the national team) which hindered his professional career. And the father of the skier Marc Girardelli sent his son, at the age of five, to ski with the wind and the rain, because in this way he would be tempered.
The champion child-satisfied father equation usually causes disaster. For this reason virtuous examples, such as the one at home, are to be appreciated Maldini. Papa Cesare, captain of AC Milan in the 1960s, accompanied little Paolo to the training camp on the first day. The coach, intimidated by the myth, asked him: where do you want me to play? Cesare’s answer should be carved at the entrance to each locker room: «You are the coach, you decide. I am only his father ».
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