The boys of the Don Guanella Oratory they respond to what happened in light of their president’s strong disappointment Don Aniello Manganiello with this message sent to him:
«We are here because we love what we do! We are young and we would like to stop a chaos of Evil that has circulated everywhere in recent days.
We apologize because we are too young not to make mistakes but our mister parents, people who support us in this oratory project, are constantly committed to correcting us… and from there we learn, just like when we miss a shot but with commitment we improve. We have committed a serious insult without realizing, not even the gravity, done in a joking, joking way. It’s not done!
It is not done because these are difficult times, it is not done because every time they tell us that we are the future and we want to build that future with good.
The one who gave his life for a dream is our President Don Aniello, who taught us to believe in the incredible, to lend a hand, to help each other. He saved many lives, he made many reborn and he gave many a future that perhaps many thought didn’t exist.
We apologize to our Mister operators and all the collaborators, who, among a thousand commitments, carve out time without asking for anything and giving us Value. Football and this shirt are values that do not just represent a match, but for us they are the redemption of lives and represent the desire to make it… succeeding, not giving up and always believing that a dream is built. Maybe some of us will advance over time, someone else will choose different paths, but the values that we share every day help us to believe that something different will be there for us in the future. Our Don, who is the living example, taught us this.
Sorry… we also say this to many who have felt the moral duty to call us criminals, they are right, many people want and continue to know Scampia that way. We don’t want to advise these people and say that they are wrong… but we will be happy to welcome them up close so they can understand better than a cold screen that takes a nano second to destroy years of sacrifices.
Thank you all. And God help us to always improve ourselves.”
Don Aniello, still strongly affected by the clashes between the two teams and for the offense that his boys caused to the Napoli Women playersadds: «I am sure that the measures taken will serve to generate positive change. I would also like to say to those parents who were a little upset by my decision that every choice I made was intended to stop and reflect, but above all because the offense was done not only to the Napoli Women footballers but to the entire female world, to the Church which is at the service of the community and, above all, to the dignity of the citizens of Scampia who have been working for years for the improvement of their neighborhood and therefore of their city”concludes the priest.
