Our Italian defender on how an early serious injury impacted his learning process, and his dreams of becoming a chiropractor
The defender spent his entire footballing upbringing at AS Roma, joining the academy as an eight-year-old, and one of the silver linings to his lengthy injury layoff was that he was soon in the company of the senior players at the club.
“As young players we never really spent much time around the squad, not until you approach playing for the first team,” he begins.