(ANSA) (ANSA) - CODOGNO, 05 SEPT - Mattia Maestri, Patient 1, is back to play football, that is, the first case of Coronavirus ascertained in Italy.
Today in Codogno, one of the 10 municipalities of the former red zone of Lodigiano, the triangular between the national mayors, a team of local administrators and a team of volunteers from the Civil Protection and the Red Cross participated.
The match which - as explained by Francesco Passerini, first citizen of Codogno - also wanted to symbolize a "football at Covid", was organized as part of the gathering of 130 mayors, coming in particular from Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Umbria, to celebrate the restart.
"The meaning of this day - explained Passerini - is to be all together now that he is recovering. We are facing a trial by fire with the reopening of the schools and we start again with work".
The sense of Mattia on the pitch?
'"He's a friend. We leave with him and he starts doing what he likes again."
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