Yacine Adli gave a long interview to SportWeek, the weekly newspaper of the Gazzetta dello Sport, in which she also spoke about her family and her childhood. Here are his words: “Dad chose Yacine because that is the name of a writer, Kateb Yacine, an Algerian of Berber ethnicity like my parents. He was a symbol of the Algerian resistance against the dictatorship. My father arrived in France at the age of 9 . When mother was 18, he returned to Algeria and took her with him. They come from the same small town. There is a story that is told about their meeting: an important woman from this city, linked to the families of origin of the my parents, predicted that my father, once an adult, would marry my mother. And so it happened. My mother Ouiza is special because she is a simple person. She took a lot from her father, a farmer who represented an example for me: he spent all his time to help others. He gave money to those who had none, without expecting anything in return. My family was inspired by his generosity.”
The Milan midfielder then continued: “My dad doesn’t work anymore. He’s done it all his life, since I was little and, when I started earning from football, I told him: that’s enough, rest. I’m proud to have given him the possibility of quitting. He worked in a thousand jobs, especially as a salesman, traveling all over France. Brothers or sisters? An older sister and brother. They have always protected me and given good advice. I call them every day.”
About his childhood, Adli said: “What kind of childhood did I have? Nice (verbatim). Mine was a popular and multi-ethnic neighbourhood. I can’t hide the fact that it was also dangerous. There was crime around me, but my parents did their best everything to get away from any danger and make me concentrate only on school (I got to the science level with an average of 8), on sport and on other things that would prevent me from spending too much time on the street with the risk of doing something stupid. My father he enrolled me in solfeggio and I learned to play the violin, I did judo and chess, plus a lot of football. Every evening my mother went around the neighborhood fields to see where I was and take me home. I always played, but without anxieties or pressures: for me football was a way to have fun and be with friends.”
2024-03-23 18:45:19
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