UMBERTIDE – Michele Milli from Umbria will participate in the Ibsa European Championships in Cagliari scheduled for early September. The technician of the blind athlete of KdK Fratta, Mirco Diarena explained the hard preparation faced: “Michele trains twice a day, alternating weights, running, swimming and judo, both to prepare himself in the best possible way for this difficult appointment and because he had to work for a weight loss of 8kg in order to fall into the 73kg category. Therefore I would like to thank all the guys who came to the gym this summer to help Michele achieve his dream and for the friendship and the charge that this boy he manages to pass on to his companions. Milli is a resource for our city, an example for young people. The last thing his eyes saw was death (he received a shotgun shot in the face) but since that day , in the dark, he was able to reinvent himself. The Europeans are waiting for him, we did our best to face them as a protagonist “. The summoning of the Umbertidese judoka also takes on an additional value since Milli, like his teammates, has been expelled from a public facility for 3 years and had to train first in makeshift facilities, even outside Umbertide, and then in a small private gym: “The sacrifices of recent years and recent days – explained Milli – have been a bit like fuel for me”.
