Garozzo, the most beautiful victory: he graduated in Medicine (and he is not only among sportsmen)

Floretist, indeed no: doctor. Above all: a fulfilled man. Daniele Garozzo, for social media is the “Doctor Fioretto”. Thirty years old, Catania, fencer under the Fiamme Gialle, specialty, precisely, foil. Gold in the individual at the Rio 2016 Games, European champion in Tbilisi in 2017, silver a Tokyo 2020; plus another three team gold medals at the World Cup in Moscow 2015, Leipzig 2017 and Wuxi 2019. He has put many finds on the board, now he has made a dream come true. To graduate in Medicine. He will discuss the thesis on March 22 at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. Topic: vascular surgery. He celebrated the event on social media, updating from time to time the steps forward of his tiring journey, aimed at uniting profession and study.

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So he wrote a couple of weeks ago: «It took me a long time. 10 years and 5 months to be exact, but not even a minute of those hours of study has been lost ». And again, aimed at the many guys who follow him on social networks. “Don’t give up guys. Don’t believe those who tell you that Sport and Studio are not compatible. It’s a lie. You will find it harder, but you will have a lot more life to tell those who want to listen to you ». Nice guy, Garozzo. Bright, tenacious, serious, credible. In sports and in the study, ready on the platform and bent over the books. The many sacrifices made, the sacrifices, the “no” to friends, the time taken away from his girlfriend Alice. Now there is a life that has taken off. The medical degree, the World Cup in Cairo next summer, the goal of going to the Paris 2024 Games.

Sport and Study: it can be done, confirms Garozzo. But not only. More and more champions are able to walk the two paths in parallel. Excluding degrees in Sports Science; in Italy there are two firm points in the national team of Mancini. I’m Giorgio Chiellinigraduated with 110 cum laude from the University of Turin in Business Administration, and Matteo Pessina, graduated in Economics and Commerce from Luiss in Milan. The coach of Cremonese record holder in Serie B, the Neapolitan Fabio Pecchia, has long (since he played) graduated in Law. In Formula 1 the “thinking head” is that of the Russian Sergey Sirotkin (current Williams driver), engineering graduate.

No one will actually be able to break the record of a legend of Italian sport, Pietro Mennea. Four degrees for the great Italian sprinter. Who graduated in Bari for the first time in Political Science, on the advice of Aldo Moro, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then also obtained degrees in Law, Motor and Sports Sciences and Literature. Finally, there are those who have just started that path. A year ago Gianmarco Tamberi and Filippo Tortu enrolled in the Luiss Bachelor’s Degree Course in Economics and Management; while Letizia Paternoster, track cycling champion – is studying at the Political Science course. It’s really true: exams never end.


Source: Vanity Fair

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