Verona-Latina: parallel Mayors and opposing communities albeit always Damiano
In the year in which we Roma fans returned to raise a trophy to the sky, I couldn’t help but remember the last Giallorossi Scudetto.
That team, coached by Don Fabio Capello, who won the Italian flag in 2001, was, objectively, a team of phenomena (Totti, Batistuta, Emerson, Montella, Samuel, Cafu).
In addition to the phenomena there were also a series of medians that always serve to win. Among these I remember special Damiano Tommasi da Negrar. The curly-haired Veronese ran like a madman in the middle of the field, retrieved balls and passed them to the most technically gifted.
A good, intelligent and serious man who could not fail to please everyone; the classic good guy that every father would want as a husband to their daughter. Coming from a Venetian Catholic family, it was understood, however, that behind the good face and “companion of the parish priest” he was a smart and ambitious one, who would have made a career, once he hung up his boots. In fact, he was head of the Footballers’ Union and then Federal Councilor of the FIGC.
In the last administrative elections he ran for Mayor of Verona with a center-left coalition plus the M5S and reached the top in the first round with 40 percent of the votes. There is a good chance that he will also be able to affirm himself in the ballot. Verona has always been a politically moderate city (first DC and then Center-right) but, in this round, the guys from Droit presented themselves divided and did not hide the fact that they hate each other to death.
Who reminds me of his story? Very much that of the Mayor of Latina, also named Damiano.
Of course there are some big differences. First of all, among the planned Cities; Verona for history and artistic beauties not
could never be compared with our young provincial capital. Then Verona, beyond the colors of the Mayors, has always had more than dignified administrations in services to citizens.
I was there at the time of To Sindaco and I must say that, as much as I do not like him, the level of cleanliness and organization that I saw in the city of Verona, a necessity for us, pure fantasy.
Lastly, there is a huge difference in the relationship between citizens and the territory. The Veronese are all proud of their history and their city. These are the first checks by the administrators. They have a strong sense of community and they keep the city nice and clean.
A Latina? Not really.
It is enough to tell an episode that occurred some time ago under the arcades of Corso della Repubblica, therefore in the center and told to me by eyewitnesses.
An elegant boy passes by with a purebred dog in tow. The big dog does what his nature commands and shoots a powerful dose of excrement on the marble floor. A lady who was about to end up inside her complains politely: “Don’t pick it up?”
That makes the vague: “What? Ndo?”. Meanwhile, he walks away peacefully. The owner of a shop arrives: “Clean up or I’ll call the police”, who without the batter and the eyelash goes away, with a dog but without poop, screams after her “What the fuck you? what is your house? Then the Municipality must have cleaned it. Nobody picks it up here! “
PS The little sense of community of the Pontine citizens, however, is not the administrators in their defaults with respect to the Veronese ones, unless one believes genetic theories. Also because we Pontinians, on the other hand, are also Venetians.