Today will be an unforgettable day for Italian sport, the Wimbledon and Wembley finals are coming up. Two of the most iconic venues in world sport, where Italian athletes will be protagonists.
Those who have achieved these goals, Matteo Berrettini and the national soccer team, have faced a difficult path that they have reached not only thanks to their sport skills but also by virtue of their ability to accept the difficulties they were faced with and to know how to win them. They are an example of what Rudyard Kipling wrote, in the poem If, of which two significant lines are written at the entrance of the central court of Wembley: “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same”.
In a few words, Kipling was able to summarize the deepest meaning of sport, represented by the challenge with oneself, the anxiety that this causes and the ability to overcome this psychological condition to achieve victory.
Every young athlete, coach and parent should remember these ideas and understand how difficult the challenge experienced by athletes is. Take care of our talents.
