N.901 - E si chest nunn’è ammore, #4

Special Edition: SSC Napoli, Champions of Italy. We weren’t used to the waiting, to this tension in the air. It had happened before, but this time feels different. Your best friend calls: “So, did you get tickets?” Your mother watches you leave in the blue jersey, having long lost count of how many times she's seen it. You step into the Maradona and remember everything: the scarf, the stands, your father holding your hand on the stairs. The stairs are the same, but this time you are the one holding a child’s hand. This faith is inherited, not chosen: he will remember this moment all his life. The referee blows the whistle, you look up and realise you were never alone: a sea of hearts trembles with every shot, hoping it all ends in one embrace. We all dream of the same thing. Nothing else. Text by Raimondo Castaldo