“This honor is beautiful and important for me and will help to strengthen the ties that I have always had with this city.” Thus the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, during the ceremony to confer the honorary citizenship of Reggio Calabria delivered to him by the mayor, Giuseppe Falcomatà.
«Reggio Calabria – added Infantino – is my city and is my father’s city. I have many memories here. Two weeks ago I was at the White House, next to President Trump, but the emotion I feel here today is completely different. If I managed to do whatever I did, and what I will do, it is also thanks to this splendid land, full of values that have given me the desire to dream and always try. ” “The history of the Infantine family – said the mayor Falcomatà – is a bit the history of our South. And it is also the story of many fathers who have found themselves in front of the crossroads whether to stay in their birth places or go away with as many difficulties. Which was often not a choice, but the only possibility they had ».