The night we were waiting for

Finally the day has arrived. Football lovers all around the world will switch on their televisions or gather in their favorite bars to follow this miraculous game. Tonight is the night when FC Barcelona clashes Ac Milan on the renowned field of Giuseppe Meazza. Undoubtedly, we are facing a tremendous combat which might claim its page in the history of football.  

Here in Milan, the newspapers were writing about a game between „the strongest” and „the most prestigious” teams of Europe. This latter might sound a little bit exaggerated concerning the recent results of Berlusconi’s team, however AC Milan has already written it’s name in the hall of fame by winning seven CL trophies, almost twice as much as Barcelona owns at this moment. According to the wise words of coach Allegri, AC Milan will not be the ’sacrificial lamb’ of Barcelona. I think in these lines I don’t have to introduce the rossoneri’s adversary and the world’s best player in their lines and at the same time, I don’t want to infuriate my dear Real Madrid Fan readers.

Even though we could not manage to purchase some cheap tickets for the game (all of them were sold by the first day of free acquisition), we will take out our part from the night. Thanks to Michele, the boss of our association, we are going to participate in a local live radio show starting from 20:30 tonight. Of course we won’t act like real commentators, but we will have a funny conversation concerning football, politics, women and other stuff while watching the dribbles of Messi. It will also be the start of a long-lasting project during which we are trying to draw people’s attention to the other (non-commercial) side of football and the poverty of the South. As tonight’s match will attract huge attention, the organizers thought it would be the perfect occasion to get started. Agreed. Let’s do this Milan!

Meanwhile, in the past weeks some great things happened to us. Our project, with partners from Italy, Hungary (the Polgár Foundation—with my cooperation) and Turkey, was approved by the responsible body of the European Commission! The „Rules for sport talents” project, within the framework of Youth in Action initiative, will take place in the above mentioned countries. I would say it’s the beginning of a nice European cooperation in the field of youth policy, however the best thing about it is that I already contributed to it.

Beside all these miracles, we are facing a very intensive period of our EVS:  in one week time we will depart for a 10-day long international workshop in La spezia, where I will try to represent the Hungarian Polgár Foundation. Immediately after our arrival to Milan, we will grab our backpacks and take a train heading to the South. The destination is Napoli where we are going to join some other international volunteers for a 7-day long training.

Definitely, I will have a lot to tell about…Take Care guys!