Marino Bartoletti.
“A great sadness, a huge part of me goes away,” says Marino Bartoletti, Today fresh delivery of two new books, one on the national team and one on the Beatles, out of the late spring e soul of the transmission Those that football with Fabio Fazio, in the early nineties.
Bartoletti is one of the “creators” not of Sister Paola, who was already there, but of her character linked to cheering for Lazioknowing well that behind the television image there were a real nun and a great human thickness of commitment and work for people in difficulty. «I don’t remember exactly how we got to her, but when I reread the identikit that I wrote imagining the figures suitable for a sort of television version of All football minute by minuteI realize that I have “designed” people like Sister Paola, a religious of great humanity that on Sunday is cheering on her team and for the rest of the week the maximum commitment in its mission, and as Idris, a non -EU citizens, very fans, ironic and cultured, before knowing that Sister Paola and Idris existed».
Sister Paola and Idris, who disappeared a short time ago, “were drawn first and She was perfectly aligned in our light way of telling football and life: she had the right spontaneity and irony, but she always knew how to channel her visibility and fun in the substance of a life spent at the service of others: surely he had had to put the commitment to convince his superior of the school nuns of Christ the King to allow them to participate in something very unusual as a ironic TV broadcast that spoke of football, but He had told me that he had succeeded that “Providence is always close to us, but if we give it the possibility it will help us open more and more doors” I went to find it when I went to Rome, in the beautiful convent transformed into the house of Charity, many of us went there because he felt close to us in his workand there I met an extraordinary woman, tireless and always engaged in works of great social value ».
The criticisms and misunderstandings were not lacking: “While her mother superior gave her permission to others in the Catholic world criticized her, without understanding how functional visibility to amplify her ability to do good to others. Today, from the messages that are overwhelming me, but I realize that in A divisive world like cheering, which is almost a certification of enmity, Sister Paola, who sailed further, knew how to unite. One just wrote me: “I am Romanist, but I loved her so much”, the feedback tell me that net of some initial diffidence, people loved her, despite having understood no more than one tenth of her holiness “.
“God only knows, and who if not?” Bartoletti wrote greeting her on Facebook: «Goodbye Sister Paola, sister dear! (…) You have been an extraordinary woman (God only knows – and who if not? – How many have been your merits that escaped to most). When we “discovered” you (because a nice and at the same time generous figure like yours was perfect for the clean idea that we wanted to give football) adnerists with enthusiasm to our project. In your joyful modernity – always combined with the rigor of your mission – Capisti that that was a very important road to help those who had entrusted to you: that is, the mothers with their children, the victims of violence that saw in your maternal tenacity a glimmer of hope ».
Rethinking in that way of telling football, today that the world looks like a stadium of curves only, Bartoletti reflects: «It would be quite difficult to repeat that magicwe did ours and I think we did it well: with loyalty and friendship we gave football a light image that was our interpretation, perhaps not entirely realistic. Today football has still deteriorated and I don’t think it is a coincidence: there is a lot of interdependence between football and world, they are reflected, and, as Michele Serra says, today it is the world that is pervaded by an “ultraism” from which we do not come out, which permeates and polarizes all the discussions “.
