Before the match between Udinese and Milan, the club’s head of scouting and former player Andrea Carnevale was interviewed by Gabriella Marano at the Bluenergy Stadium auditorium. Carnevale presented his upcoming book titled Il destino di un bomber [Destiny of a Striker], published by 66thand2nd, which he wrote together with Giuseppe Sansonna. The book is about his football career, playing alongside Zico and Diego Maradona and at the World Cup, but it is also about Carnevale’s private life – from childhood to adulthood – with the tragic chapter of when his father murdered his mother.
“The book isn’t just about football,” Carnevale stated. “I had something else in mind: to take a stand against femicides. I myself have been a victim of femicide, as I’ve been an orphan for fifty years. I was lucky enough to become a successful footballer, but not all my siblings were as lucky as me. Talking about it is also a form of therapy for me. I feel I should talk about it and I want to share my story with youngsters and families. I want to do something about it.
“When I was asked to write this book, I said that money was absolutely out of the question,” the head of scouting went on to say. “I wrote it because I want to do something to prevent femicides. At 14 I’d had enough of the atrocities I was witnessing at home every day and I went to the police, but they said they couldn’t do anything until they actually saw blood. The day my mother died I went back to the police station and said: ‘There you go.’ It didn’t have to turn out like that.”