Of Giovanna Cavalli
Francesca Costa, Nicolò’s mother: “So much hate seems really excessive to me”
“Before they were only the Lazio, now also the Romanists they take it out on my son, what a disaster», he confides Frances Costa – the mother of Nicolo Zaniolo pursued by the ultras under the house -, always very kind, who would like to speak straight away (“I don’t like this silence”), then he postpones: “Prosecutor Vigorelli doesn’t want to and then Nicolò is now almost 24 years old, he’s a man and knows how to defend himself alone, he doesn’t need me.”
But yesterday morning, after the agitated night spent by the now former Roma number 22, en route with the entire Giallorossi universeinsulted and threatened at home, Zaniolo’s mother did not hold back, posting a calm outburst on Instagram: «Having originated all this hate seems a little excessive to me». She was referring to the banners that first appeared at the Colosseum and then in Trigoria, and the writings on the walls that vulgarly insulted the footballer (“Executioner”) and, in rhyming couplets, she too.
Shortly after he deleted the story, but Nicolò’s younger sister, Blessedpublished a photo of the offending graffiti, commenting: “No words are needed, just a lot of pain for you”.
It is not the first time that Francesca Costa in Zaniolo has intervened on Instagram, like Frac77, 416,000 followers, in the maternal emergency room of the firstborn, it certainly will not be the last.
Wife of Igor, former bomber on the pitches of B and C, 44 years old who seem less, beautiful as a wag, outgoing, super social («There are times when you have nothing to do and you take a selfie, there’s nothing evil»), a declared passion for Big Brother, born in La Spezia but Roma fan («For Venditti’s songs») and Francesco Totti («The first time I saw him at a training session I started crying and Nicolò reproached me: “What are you making me look like?”»).
«Always with head held high, against everyone and everything! You are a champion Nicolò », he had proudly written a year ago, after his expulsion in Rome-Genoa. Bis a month later, in the post match of Spezia-Roma, in which the boy had remedied a kick in the face from an opponent and published a photo of his swollen face. Threats and insults even then: “At least you took the slope,” commented a chick on Facebook.
«Yes, he took the embankment but then he heals, you will never recover from anger and malice», retorted Francesca (offended on the walls of the bathrooms at her daughter’s school). Protective and proud of that son I had at the age of 21 and who “as a child was hyperactive, terrible, he broke houses, I bought him toy cars but he just wanted the ball”. And that when he grows up it is not so much easier to contain: «he is a very generous boy, maybe a little moody, you never know how he wakes up in the morning».
It’s up to her to communicate the bulletin of the soul after the first knee surgery: «He’s fine, he’s ready to start again, he was just afraid of the anesthesia». And when gossip rages on Nicolò’s flirtation with Madalina Ghenea (“Can I kiss you 25 hours a day?”, He wrote to her on Ig), older than 11 years (while the ex, Sara Scaperrotta, was pregnant with little Tommaso) , it is always she who rebels: «We don’t agree on this attendance». Instead, he is silent when another famous ex of his son, Chiara Nasti (remarried in the meantime with the Lazio striker Mattia Zaccagni), offended by vulgar Romanist choruses during the celebrations for the Conference League (“Zaccagni’s son is from Zaniolo”), strikes him in the manhood by bringing up a prawn. There Francesca was disappointed, she was fond of it.
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