When sport becomes insert and friendship

EDOARDO GIRIBALDI – VATICAN CIUDAD

“Some people expect good things. Others make them happen. ” With these words, Michael Jordan – the basketball legend – drew a thin line between desire and behavior. The 12 -year -old Eduardo Livanga borders, originally from Montreotondo Scallo, in the city of Rome, through his heart in his hand, making hope as tangible like spontaneity.

An advantage was given by Italian President Sergio Mattarella on April 5 Alfiere Della RepubblicaIts awareness between the 29 Italian young man who distinguished themselves with their commitment and civil virtues. Next to the story of Esperanza, there is Gaia Nour, her school and teammate, which lives with a kinetic disability.

A tenderness as a key is a link

His friendship has no origin in a project, a wonderful gesture, or an educational mission. It originated, as it usually happens with the most authentic things, by chance. “In the nursery, I used to see Gaya standing alone. It was very soft. I approached her, and there is everything that started. ”Eduardo told the Vatican media, with the sweetness of childhood he sees and feels what adults ignore.

“Baskin”, comprehensive basketball

Although the school separated it in different departments, EDOARDO and Gaia have found a new field where the Baskin, a comprehensive basketball method, can continue to walk together and people without disabilities, each of which has a calibration paper to its capabilities, not on its borders.

“Baskin is a hug between sports and humanity.” It is calculated by Edoardo, Michela Oriella, the mother of Gaya and ASD Baskin Sabina, an association that forms its inclusion and turns into a game, a team, and a common life.

They are borders and fears

“What do I like about Gaya? Whoever smiles always, “the newly appointed newly admits Alfiere Della Repubblica. In that smile, there is collusion made of simple gestures that incite to overcome those borders, as Michael Jordan said, “Just like fears, they are often more than illusions.” Let her try a piece of chocolate, teach them the ball, and entered them with patience. “I am some of your personal coach,” Edo again admits.

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“I am helping people”

However, not everyone understands. Some tried to harm him: “If you play with disruption, you are also handicapped.” Edoardo’s response does not leave the symmetry: “I am helping people.”

Understand without words

Friendship with Gaya was also a gift for her parents, Michala and Tfvik, originally from Türkiye. “Our daughter does not speak. However, there are those who understand it. With Edoardo, but also with other sensitive companions, understanding immediately. ”

“Being unable to speak is a rare form of love. “It comes to the desire to enter the world of a person, because of its characteristics, is at risk of forgetting. When mass photos are taken, sometimes they forget. But there are children like Edoardo, who only realize, but they will search for them. They welcome him. ”

The company, the anti -fear antidote

Gaya speaks through smiles, hugs and laughter. Share everything you can, without reservations. But the future sometimes scares. “Girls and boys like them are at risk of being alone when growing. As children, it is easier to approach. Then, with adolescence, if there is no sensitive spirit next to your side, you are at the risk of your isolation. ” Michela calls on families to search for alliances and open, for confidence in fragility, because there are networks, people, possibilities. There are stories like his daughter.

The revolution of kindness

There are still many things that Eduardo and Jaya hope to happen. His hope consists of small and large gestures. The bishop of the republic is clear: “We can continue like this.” ASD Baskin Sabina, also: “You can inspire stories like you. Because the real power lies in the normal life of good. Who knows how to remain a child from the heart, who contradicts good. It is not fragile. It is hope. I wish all of them. ”