2025-04-03, 11:52 AM - Word count: 358
Being born in a football crazy nation like Italy surely does help go get in love with the beautiful game that is football; that's how it happened for Giacomo Santori.
From a young age he started playing football, starting just like every other child on the street after school and in the local teams; originally a defender he was moved in the midfield due to his short height.
“When you are the defender your job is to not let your opponent take the shot” that was the young Santori thought when he was still playing in defense; but now in his new position Santori realised that football was a team sport and his mentality had to change, no longer he saw football as a solitary struggle, now Santori founded himself in a new struggle in which you help your teammates to score.
The change of a position is always difficult especially if it’s a drastic one such as Santori had been forced on himself, but Santori continued with his training, his teammates depended on it.
Continuing as a midfielder Santori made himself a name for his speed and his extreme altruism literally refusing to shoot when he could have easily scored, when asked why he always said:” I played most of the time as a defender with the only plan to not let the opponent shoot, it would be against my younger self to now try to score”.
It was his speed that forced Santori to once again change his position, now more wide Santori was used as a winger in the last years of the pre-Academy, with mixed results but always giving his best.
Then it happened, in the last days of his last pre-Academy season an offer from Victoria Falls arrived, Santori didn’t think twice before signing, he was ecstatic, he was given the possibility to show himself on the world stage.
This isn’t the end of Giacomo Santori's footballing story, it's just the beginning, it might not be the best, but rest assured that he will always give his best for himself and f
or the team.
From a young age he started playing football, starting just like every other child on the street after school and in the local teams; originally a defender he was moved in the midfield due to his short height.
“When you are the defender your job is to not let your opponent take the shot” that was the young Santori thought when he was still playing in defense; but now in his new position Santori realised that football was a team sport and his mentality had to change, no longer he saw football as a solitary struggle, now Santori founded himself in a new struggle in which you help your teammates to score.
The change of a position is always difficult especially if it’s a drastic one such as Santori had been forced on himself, but Santori continued with his training, his teammates depended on it.
Continuing as a midfielder Santori made himself a name for his speed and his extreme altruism literally refusing to shoot when he could have easily scored, when asked why he always said:” I played most of the time as a defender with the only plan to not let the opponent shoot, it would be against my younger self to now try to score”.
It was his speed that forced Santori to once again change his position, now more wide Santori was used as a winger in the last years of the pre-Academy, with mixed results but always giving his best.
Then it happened, in the last days of his last pre-Academy season an offer from Victoria Falls arrived, Santori didn’t think twice before signing, he was ecstatic, he was given the possibility to show himself on the world stage.
This isn’t the end of Giacomo Santori's footballing story, it's just the beginning, it might not be the best, but rest assured that he will always give his best for himself and f
or the team.
