Floccari at the Asi table: ‘Encourage young people to practice or we lose a generation’

“We must encourage young people to return to practicing sport for both physical and psychological well-being; our task is to be able to help the generations most affected by Covid, those of adolescents, those who have lost interest or think they cannot resume as before. We risk losing a generation along the way ”. This is the appeal of the attacker Sergio Floccari during a round table organized by Asi, (Italian Sports and Social Associations, the body chaired by Sen. Claudio Barbaro) and hosted on the Adnkronos portal, to draw up a balance after the first thirty days of reopening. Words of hope for a new normality, those of Floccari: “Returning to see the public in the stands was a celebration for both the players and the spectators, both at the stadium and at home; for us Italians this European Championship was fantastic not only for the victory of the cup, but also for how it arrived: the best thing was to convey to the people who looked at this spirit of belonging, of a group. A little bit what the pandemic taught us, that is to recognize ourselves as a community in which each must be responsible for the other. “” We deserved the European Championship not only because we played better than the others, but also for how we interpreted the games: we have been an extremely proactive team, even at times daring. We managed to convey everything that is beautiful about this sport, we gave immense joy in a very bad moment: we all still have in our eyes the scenes of the military trucks that brought the bodies to Ferrara: I played there so I lived it in first person ”, concludes the player who in his career has worn the jerseys of Lazio, Sassuolo and Spal, among others.