Many years of football in Messina have passed through men of thickness, in the last eight years of football. Among the sports directors, some have followed the heart of reason more, because “in Messina we cannot say no”. Like the late Christian Argurio or like Domenico Roma returned at the beginning of this nefarious 2025. Before even, Antonio Obedio, again in Biancoscudato at the beginning of the 19/20 season: «A choice of heart that I would redo a thousand more times – he says – because we who think with the heart are made like this. I have no remorse for returning, because those four months do not erase the wonderful years as a footballer. I still remember the affection of the people on the day of the presentation in Piazza Duomo, a hug that brought me back to the years of the “celestial” ».
A shirt that for obedium and all the companions of that historic climb has been more than a second skin: «For Messina I risked my life – he recalls -, after the first leg of Catania. That episode left me inherited two titanium plates on the front: the neurosurgeon had forbidden me to play and the president Aliotta asked me not to do it, but there was still a piece to give to the city and I would not have forgiven it. And then between us an indissoluble, profound bond had been created. Those who have returned after years, like me or Sasà on the, do not deny anything, because we have experienced priceless emotions ».
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