Azzurri to the Child Jesus with the European Cup

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Azzurri to the Child Jesus with the European Cup

National team from small patients, 'Together we win the game'

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'On the pitch and in life together we win the game'. It is one of the many thoughts that the children admitted to the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome have destined through their drawings to the Azzurri who will play direct access to the 2022 World Cup against Switzerland at the Olimpico on Friday. Italy had already visited the pediatric hospital in 2016 with Antonio Conte ct on the eve of his departure for the European Championship and in 2019 before the pandemic. This time, however, the Azzurri returned to their young fans hospitalized with the Euro 2020 Cup. The delegation of the National team, led by the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina, and the coach, Roberto Mancini, arrived at the hospital at 6:20 pm, welcomed by the president of the Child Jesus, Mariella Enoc, and stayed for about an hour and a half.The players entered the various departments, from first aid to intensive care, from neonatology to pediatrics, from cardiology to oncology, not before meeting a group of children in the shelters for the delivery of gifts: the sweatshirts with the logo of the Child Jesus and the Football Federation, a pennant made by the children and young people of the playroom. A young fan gave Mancini a drawing with the Cup from which three children come out with a ball and below are a doctor and a blue footballer, while 'Together we win' is the slogan of the pennant that a child gave to Leonardo Bonucci . "It is a moment of joy and hope - the words of Gravina -.It is a beautiful testimony that also enhances our action of social responsibility but those who come back enriched by visits of this type are the players. This day will truly remain in their hearts and minds. "The FIGC gave a reproduction of the European Football Cup and the number 21 jersey with the Azzurri's signatures in gold to the hospital. does not end with the visit. A contribution equal to a part of the proceeds of the tickets for the construction of the Pediatric Palliative Care Center will be donated, and thanks to the tickets made available by the Football Federation, 200 people including doctors and nurses of the hospital will be "Olympic. In the changing rooms, as has become tradition, the team will bring the banner donated by the children of the hospital.It will be posted instead of the billboard received in 2019 which read "Your best goal was to come to us in the hospital" and from which the Azzurri have never separated, not even during away matches: "The other has always been with us so far - said Mancini jokingly - and it hasn't hurt us I would say. We will use this for the next matches ".

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