by Maurizio Munda A very exciting moment, a beautiful initiative of solidarity as you see very few. Thus the Audax Basketball experienced the away match in Siena at Costone’s home which will hardly be forgotten, not so much for what happened on the pitch (a defeat like many others in the C silver regional championship) but for what happened before the match and in the stands. during the game phases. It happened that the home team organized a day in favor of Mustafà El Nezzal, the six-year-old Syrian boy who became famous for the “Hardship of Life” photo that moved the world. Deprived of the lower and upper limbs due to the gases inhaled by his mother during pregnancy, Mustafà has recently arrived in Italy with his whole family (father, mother and little sister) and in Siena he has found a second home (perhaps the first, given the situation of the Middle Eastern country under the bombs) currently housed in a structure of the diocesan Caritas of Siena, after being operated on at the city hospital in view of the application of prostheses. The Sienese club gave a shirt to Mustafà, donated all the proceeds of the game to the family and before the match made sure that the child greeted the team by giving high five to all the players. “It was a beautiful party, well organized, with a full grandstand – says the sports director Massimo Alibani -: a cheerful child, who high-fives everyone, who celebrated at every basket (of Siena, ed.)”. “In spite of everything, he is a cheerful child who always smiles at everyone – adds the manager Carlo Bigli – and at every Siena goal his father raised him in the air for his joy”. “That there was going to be a party for the baby, we found out by chance …
