His parents see Rapid as a more than successful distraction. The family only had their clothes with them when they left in March. After a week at the Hungarian border, on the advice of friends, we continued to Vienna. “He only took the backpack with a soccer ball and his shoes, nothing else,” says mother Giuliana. When her son was finally allowed to take part in the trial session, she almost cried. “He didn’t laugh for weeks, and when we were in Vienna, when he could play again, he could laugh again and said, ‘Mom, look, I’m playing again.'”
