«Open-air gym». Also present were Graziani, Castrogiovanni and Lucchetta

Playing and doing sports in the square to use sporting activity as an educational beacon, social habitat and driver of positive values. This is the true essence of “Banca Generali – A Champion for a Friend”an initiative now in its 23rd edition and which brings children from primary and lower secondary schools to play in the most evocative squares in Italy together with four legends of Italian sport: Adriano PanattaAndrea PadlockFrancesco Ciccio Graziani e Martin Castrogiovanni.

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The tour in 6 Italian cities: from Arezzo to Padua

A project presented this morning, Tuesday 9 April, at the Parioli Tennis Club, with greetings from the president of the club Paolo Cerasi, and which aims to set up real open-air gyms in the squares. All starting from Wednesday with over 10 thousand children from all over Italy who will be able to play tennis, rugby, football and volleyball. The tour will start from Arezzo and will wind, stopping only in the summer months, along the entire peninsula, touching between April, May and June six cities (Arezzo, Ravenna, Padua, Lucca, Trento and Nocera Inferiore).

The words of the 4 myths of sport

The former tennis player Panatta said: «It is always a great emotion to cross Italy from north to south, meet thousands of children, play with them and see how they all have fun together, coloring with their smiles the most beautiful Italian squares which become open-air gyms . Our goal is precisely this: to encourage, through play, sharing, inclusion, hospitality, respect, all founding values ​​of sport but above all of life.”

Grazianiinstead, focuses on “the importance of sport in respecting the rules”, while Castrogiovanni he says he is “honoured to be part of the project” despite his task being more difficult “because it is to get children to play rugby”. In the end Padlock who in “A Champion for a Friend” sees the possibility of “countering static nature and dependence on technology”.

Banca Generali within the project

Banca Generali’s commitment to the project has also been strengthened. “We are happy to start again with this extraordinary event not only for the enthusiasm and energy it releases, but also and above all for the spirit and values ​​it stands for”, he declared Gian Maria MossaCEO of Banca Generali, while the conclusions are entrusted to Stefano Lenti, head of the financial consultants area of ​​Banca Generali: «As long as we continue to see this joy in kids, as a bank we want to put everything else into it».

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