Four great sports champions and, with them, ten thousand children between 6 and 13 years old. In ten days in the squares of 10 Italian cities, the little ones will have the opportunity to get to know some of the most important figures in the history of our sport and learn directly from them.
The samples in question are Adriano Panatta (who is also the creator of the project), Yuri Chechi, Andrea Lucchetta and Ciccio Graziani, undisputed champions who need no introduction and who today, in the setting of the historic Aniene rowing club, have presented the thirteenth edition of the project "A champion as a friend", sponsored by Banca Generali and Eni under the patronage of CONI and the Italian Paralympic Committee, both represented, in today's press conference, by Luca Pancalli.
Also present with them were the superintendent Umberto Broccoli, the mayor of Pescara (one of the cities involved in the project and European city of sport for 2012) Luigi Mascia, the president of the Circolo Aniene Giovanni Malagò and the general manager of Banca Generali Piermario Motta.
Heart and focal point of the event, however, beyond sponsors and sponsorships, remain the four sportsmen. In fact, they will be the ones to tour Italy on a tour which, between 18 April (Catania) and 25 May (Vicenza), will take them to the squares of 10 Italian cities, including Rome and Florence. On each of these days, thousands of children aged between 6 and 13 will be able to train and play in the open air with Panatta, Graziani, Lucchetta and Yuri Chechi. TAmong these children there will also be disabled children belonging to non-profit organizations in the area.
The aim of the event is to inteach sport not only in its technical aspect, but above all in its joyful aspect and, even more so, in its educational aspect. From the words of the four protagonists, in fact, this message and their desire to convey it to Italian children clearly emerged, with the hope of bringing them closer to sport, in all its forms, and to the main positive values that it preaches. Because learning to kick a ball (or to dunk it, or to hit it with a racket and so on) is a way like any other, better than many others, of learning to be in the world together with others.
