Calabria and Dimarco, from Milan and Inter fans to full-backs – Corriere.it

The two supporter full-backs had a dream and they realized it: to play (and win) with their favorite team. Davide Calabria on one side, Federico Dimarco on the other: a crossroads of destinies, of journeys and speakers, of cheering and sacrifices. Tonight theirs will be a duel within a duel. In which head and emotions will have double weight. The first joined the Rossoneri academy at the age of eleven and a Milan fan in his heart, since he was a child: when he played in the youth team he wasn’t a starter, but he fought to keep his dream close. Now, as leader, he dreams of his first trophy as captain: in 2016 he didn’t play even a minute in the Super Cup, while last year it was Romagnoli who lifted the Scudetto.

I would like to stay at Milan forever, he said, recalling all the sacrifices made together with his family during the years in the youth sector. It was his mother Caterina who accompanied him back and forth from Adro, in the Brescia area. Until I was 15 I was always on the bench, I even thought about quitting – he said on the day of the Scudetto -. I didn’t want to burden my parents, but I wanted to hold on to my dream. On Sundays he went to San Siro to cheer on the grown-ups, second ring green, because it cost less, is today one of the symbols of this young and ambitious Milan, capable of going even beyond its limits. Davide as a player in a unique sense: he hates the PlayStation. I’m a duffer – he says – but above all I don’t enjoy it. The real world out there. Would you like to take a walk through the vineyards of my Franciacorta?. By the way: being from there, passionate about wines. I’d like to make it a job when I stop. There is time for this dream.

Federico Dimarco instead the only Milanese in the Euroderbyhe has always been an Interista, one of the fittest players in the Nerazzurri team, the symbol of the bond between this group and its fans. Dima the supporter full-back with a megaphone singing under the sector of Inter supporters in Riyadh, in the last Super Cup, where he left his mark with a goal. the one who darts in the wing belonged to Perisic: he never pretended to be like the Croatian, it wouldn’t have made sense, but he put his characteristics into it, improved the qualities and worked on the defects. Basically so since Federico was eight years old. entered the youth sector of Inter dreaming San Siro, which is only 8 kilometers from home in the Calvairate district. The stadium soon became his second home, in the stands with his uncle Sergio. In 2003 I was in the stands, now I play: a dream told the player.

With 6 goals and 9 assists, Dimarco is at the height of the consecration season, exalted by Inzaghi’s game for which one of the indispensable. And the fact that it’s the good season for pears should worry the Milan fans a little. At least those that are served in the fruit and vegetable shop of Pope Gianni, in Corso di Porta Romana. A historic shop, with photos hanging on the back of Fede as a child, making his debut at Calvairate, a club affiliated with Inter. The zero kilometer full-back is a guarantee of quality. But not the only one: the challenge with Calabria is also special for this.