Roberto Baggio: “I knew my wife at 15 years old, on the eve of my departure for the first retreat with Vicenza Calcio”

Football icon known for his successes on the pitch, but also for his kind nature and for his unshakable Buddhist faith, Roberto Baggio he told himself intimately in an unusuality Interview conducted by his children Valentina, Mattia and Leonardo For The Corriere della Sera. The former Veneto footballer, born in 1967, opened in particular on Her love as a movie with Andreina Fabbihis wife for 34 years and Vita partner for 40 years. A solid and never falter relationship, also thanks to the couple’s ability to maintain a lifestyle deliberately far from the spotlight.

For Roberto Baggio it was the classic love at first sight. As he told the children, “We went to the same school, not in the same sectionwe lived at 50 meters from each other. I know it on a Sunday evening, on the eve of my departure for the first retreat with Vicenza Calcio, I was 15 years old: I stopped in front of the house, it was beautiful, he was passing by bike. In those days there was no mobile phone, the car was good for a few, so Before seeing us, months passed: both have never been lovers of discos and therefore We spent the time quiet to listen to vinylswatching TV. Remember those times still excites me, I would like you so much that you young people also appreciate these moments of simplicity Instead of always staying on the mobile phone ».

Andreina intervened here to clarify that she, at the time of the meeting with her future husband, was not so convinced. “It initially did not care about me, but including immediately how determined and stubborn it was. He was also able to use stratagems: already then He asked me in a feat of my grandmothertelling me that he would report it once returned from the retreatso we would have had the excuse to see us again. I continually received his postcards And we also made the decision of Keep a common diary: once he wrote, once I wrote and so When we exchanged it we had the feeling of always being together».

Roberto Baggio therefore admitted that Andreina is very much. “We shared the values ​​that united usBuddhism has amplified the value of this precious treasure. She put her family in the first placewithout my wife I would never get to certain goals, “said the former footballer. As for the parents of todayaccording to Baggio «should stop downloading their frustrations on their childrenshould leave them more free, they do nothing but ruin their lives with theirs continuous pressure». At Casa Baggio, not surprisingly, the key word remains only one: humility.