BRIGANTI
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ORAZIO
(V.O.)
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Rugby is all about tackling and
support
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You get hit, fall
down, but you know that behind you
your teammate is coming to
defend.
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Which makes you respect
your teammates and opponents.
TITLE: BRIGANTI
ORAZIO (V.O)
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I live in Librino.
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I was born and grew up in Librino.
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Unfortunately
Librino
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is famous for being a quite rough
area.
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It has a bad reputation.
ELEONORA
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Here, give it to him.
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Can we join in?
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You’re
starving your nephew,
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poor him.
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What are you doing this
afternoon?
ORAZIO
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I’m
going to training.
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Yes, I’ll
go train.
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It’s
falling apart
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I think I’ll
go to help Piero.
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Can I have another slice?
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I’m
helping Piero with the Under 16s
STEFANIA (V.O)
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Living in Librino
has its pros and cons.
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You have everything close
but some things are far away.
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It’s
quite a poor neighborhood.
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But in spite of
this,
we manage to do a lot of things.
VALENTINA (V.O.)
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It’s a neighborhood
that was totally abandoned.
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Many buildings weren’t
even completed,
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despite people going to live in
them.
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We came here with a charity
project.
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One day, in 2006 Piero, one of
the founders,
brought a rugby ball to one of
our meetings.
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STEFANIA
-Who is it?
VALENTINA
-I’m
Valentina. Come down.
VALENTINA (V.O.)
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He brought this ball and said:
“Why don’t we get the kids to
play rugby?"
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I think it’s
an educational sport,
we could even set up a team.
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“I even thought of a name: I
BRIGANTI”
VALENTINA
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Have you filled the subscription?
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Good Stefania, but we also need
your health card.
VALENTINA (V.O.)
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One of these kids was called
Giuseppe,
VALENTINA
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Giuseppe Cunsolo.
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Unfortunately
at some point
we lost track of him.
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In 2012, a few years later,
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he died here in Librino under
circumstances that are still
unclear.
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At that moment Piero resumed
thinking about it,
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he summoned us and said:
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“We already train in lots of
areas of Catania
but not here.
VALENTINA (V.O.)
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The administration doesn’t let us, but we need to be here
with our kids and take care of
them.
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Let’s
come back to Librino."
PIERO
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Closer, closer, closer Valentino.
Ok, keep it! Keep it! Keep it!
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On April 25, 2012,
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we symbolically freed this place
from this noxious cloud that was
hanging over it.
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As the first thing,
we went to what is now the rugby
pitch,
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which at the time was a pasture field.
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We cleaned it up and made it into
a pitch.
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What we did was to just get back
something that was already ours,
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which belonged to the kids,
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as it was originally created for
them.
And the kids are coming here now.
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They always try to circumvent the
defense,
but we have to
go straight,
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right down the running line.
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If we keep going left and right we’ll move sideway
but not forward.
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We must go forward.
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It’s better to move
five yards forward
then fifteen sideways.
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Understand?
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So, we have to
decide if we train tomorrow.
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INDISTINCT PLAYER
-Yes I’m
coming.
VALENTINO
-I’m not
sure.
PIERO
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-I want to know who is coming and
who is not.
MARCO
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-I’m
coming.
FRANCESCO
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-Me too.
PIERO
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The idea was to build a
philosophy of revolt
against the stereotype
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of Librino
as the city, town, neighbourhood
of illegality and negativity.
STEFANIA (V.O.)
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The kids who live here
don’t
have many things to do.
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The only places where you can
meet up
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is the San Teodoro playing field
and a few schools.
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If you’re
out in the streets,
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you end up doing what everyone
else
does and we all know where it
leads.
ORAZIO (V.O.)
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Before, when I was not practicing
any sports,
I was always hanging around in
the streets.
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Now I know that,
a few days a week,
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I have to
go to the pitch and do my best.
STEFANIA (V.O.)
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Above all, rugby is life.
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As far as I’m
concerned this isn’t just a team
but a second family.
UMBERTO
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Don’t lower you chest.
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Now bend over, put one hand here,
jump and hold on. Go!
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You must get in there with a
little jump.
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Go!
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Why are you afraid of putting
your legs behind?
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“I can’t do it”: you have to get rid of it.
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If you start with “I can’t do
it”,
you just won’t.
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We all have to
do it.
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What I like about rugby is that
it doesn’t allow you
to come up with any excuses.
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You’re
right there.
UMBERTO (V.O.)
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It puts you in a situation that
is exactly
how in my opinion life should be.
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Even though it isn’t,
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because in life many times you do
bad
and you don’t
pay for it,
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or you do well
and nobody notices it.
UMBERTO
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"Giovanni!"
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"You’re not in via Etnea, come on."
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“Orazio
where’s your head?!”
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“Alright, this isn’t the last
one. Do another one,
on account of Sottile
and Gandolfo.”
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“If you don’t work hard when you
are tired and give up at
the first difficulties,
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your legs won’t
last three minutes in the game.
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What are we going to do?
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Carabello
is slow,
but at least he tries to do it
all.
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If we don’t
go past our limit of pain and tiredness,
we are not going to improve.”
PIERO (V.O.)
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These kids are knocked over a lot
in life,
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and they will be many more times,
at school, at work, at home.
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It’s
very useful to learn to react,
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not by giving up and feeling
defeated but with pride and
resilience.
UMBERTO
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“Lock your arms onto the props.
Third row, tighten up.“
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“C’mon push.”
GABRIELE
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I was at home, sleeping,
when I heard a noise.
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I looked out of the window and I saw that
the Club House was on fire.
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I couldn’t
believe it.
UMBERTO
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Gabriele texted me:
“Umberto the Club House is on
fire.”
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I went crazy.
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When I got out of the house
Piero came over to me and said:
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“There’s nothing left. Just like
that.”
PIERO (V.O.)
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One thing is burglary or
vandalism.
It had happened in the past.
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Another thing is someone breaking
in
to burn everything down.
PIERO
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We were not frightened,
but we were thrown into a
situation of very high conflict,
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which we weren’t
at all prepared for.
UMBERTO (V.O.)
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Honestly, I don’t
care about who did it.
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The message I got from it was:
UMBERTO
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“Look, what you are doing, all of
you,
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is something good, which bothers
some people who don’t like good
things.”
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This is all I need to know.
ORAZIO (V.O.)
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This fire was like falling.
We have to
get back on our feet, right away.
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We need to show them that their
tackling
didn’t
do anything to us.
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But of course
we were sad,
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and the sadness stayed with us
for a while.
PIERO (V.O.)
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I hope they can learn
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not to let people take advantage
of them.
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Which you don’t
get by leading a life of crime,
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but by standing up for your own
rights
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and with honest work.
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I have to say the
majority of them
are now getting this.
EPILOGUE
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The arson of 10 January 2018
didn’t
stop the Briganti’s activities.
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The generous solidarity of the
world of rugby, and others,
contributed to build a new Club
House,
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which is getting better every
day.
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The Briganti continue their
activities with passion,
commitment and determination.