L'uomo Dietro Il Campione

Over twenty years in a balloon
Over twenty years waiting for that penalty
Only to discover that life
Was the whole game
It was in the sunbeam
That set your childhood dreams on fire
It was in the wind that moved your ponytail
To us, that already seemed like a divine sign

It was searching for a place
In the middle of an endless field
And then finding joy
When time seemed to have run out
It was falling and getting up listening to the pain
Feeling like a hug coming from the heart
Of those who saw you enchant the world with a ball
Never hiding
The man behind the champion

And then there's all the passion
And that blind and crazy determination
That the destination
Sometimes is an obsession
The scars and the trophies
To remind you of who you were and what you are
And jerseys hanging out to dry
On the thread of a destiny that can change today

And there, looking for a place
In the middle of an endless field
To then find joy
When time seemed to have run out
And then falling and getting up accepting the pain
Feeling like a hug coming from the heart
Of those who saw you enchant the world with a ball
Never hiding
The man behind the champion

Because Roberto, in the end, all this love is also a son of courage
(Son of courage)
Of that champion who touched every ball as if it were life
I know it may seem like an exaggeration
But even that penalty
Taught me a bit about life