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Matteo Scarpellini attended his first Atalanta game when he was only 10 months old. Carried by an uncle who wanted to "baptise" him in the club's traditions, he was part of a crowd that saw Atalanta defeat Catanzaro 1-0 on the opening day of the 1975-76 Serie B season. He has followed the club devotedly ever since.
"If you're born in Bergamo, you have to be Atalantino," Scarpellini tells Bleacher Report.
"My family is Atalanta, every one of the family. We live in an area where there are a lot of Inter and AC Milan fans, because Milan is pretty close.