De Rossi – a hero and a champ

On Monday Sweden beat four times world champions Italy out of the next soccer World Cup in Russia. It was a very intense play-off in two games where the players did everything they could to win the games.

After the game the Gli Azzuri superstar and Roma captain, Daniel De Rossi, stopped the Swedish players bus, stepped up on bus, apologized for the Italian players behaviour during the games and congratulated Sweden to the win. What a great sportsman. At a moment when he had played his last game for Italy, retiring from international games and just having lost the opportunity to play another world cup.

This is the same De Rossi who left his World Cup Gold Medal from 2006 in the former team material manager Pietro Lombardi’s coffin.

Some players are bigger than others. Some people are too.