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14-01-2012

Genoa-Udinese, Di Natale-Rossi!

It is a life's choice (“It’s life’s choice”?). To remain in a city and keep playing for the same team despite everything. The first example was Gigi Riva, who renounced to several awards (???) to play in Sardinia.

A courageous choice, hard to make (“one that is hard to make”?), that seems almost impossible in today’s globalized football. Totò Di Natale and Marco Rossi are –perhaps- the only two examples left of this love for the shirt (“jersey”?). We know everything about Totò: come in 2004 (“he came in 2004 to the team”?), he made his name clear with goals. Udine is his second home, the place where he grew up, so he decided to stay here and become Udinese’s captain: he’s the best scorer of all times (“of all time”?), the only Udinese player to have won the top scorer award twice in a row. He’s still eager to entertain at the age of 34, always with Udinese’s shirt (“jersey”?).

Also Genoa have their “flag”: Marco Rossi. A player who never left, even in the darkest hour of the club, when in summer 2005 (“when during the summer of 2005”?) Genoa got moved down “(was relegated”?) to the Serie C1 instead of promoted (“instead of being promoted”?) to the Serie A. Rossi didn’t want to leave the club back then and decided to stay and help his squad regaining (“regain”?) its room (“place”?) in the major competition: the squad is back in the Serie A in two years and manages (“managed”?) to conquer also Europe. And Rossi, who’s become one of the most present players in Genoa’s history, is still there, playing.