Last January 25, during the match between Cairese and Ospedaletti, a team from the province of Imperia, he saved the life of an opponent, assisting him until help arrived.
A heroic gesture that allowed Mattia Agnese, born in 2003, to win The Best Fifa Award for fair play.
An extraordinary recognition for a "normal" boy, as he himself defined himself when Ruud Gullit, one of the stewards of the FIFA award in Zurich, interviewed him in videoconference, praising him for his humility.
Agnese had already been inducted into the Italian football Hall of Fame. The prize awarded to him this evening comes 20 years after the one won by Paolo Di Canio, when he was playing in England. In Everton-West Ham United, seeing the opposing goalkeeper on the ground, instead of putting the ball in the net, he took it in his hand and stopped the game.