(Adnkronos) - "Tra tutti i valori, ce n'è uno in particolare che rappresenta molto di più il mondo dello sport, è la condivisione. La possibilità di condividere con altri, chi è diverso da te, e questa cosa appiana tutti i livelli sociali delle persone". Così Gian Paolo Montali al premio Fair Play Menarini 2024.
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00:00In general, sport is always used on this idea of the values that it carries beyond the sports discipline that it generally represents.
00:15There is one in particular that represents much more the world of sport, that of sharing.
00:23This is one of the most important characteristics of the world of sport, the ability to share with others, with those who are different from you, with diversity.
00:31And so this thing fills everything, both at the social level and also at the level of people.
00:37So among all the values, the one of sharing is the most important.
00:41There is the sporting culture in Italy as we are put, according to you, in a historical moment where, at the level of results, in many disciplines, Italy is really reaching the world's peak, even where it has less tradition.
00:54But everyone talks about sports culture, but in reality everyone talks about sports culture when sport becomes a model of results.
01:01And everyone talks about sports culture forgetting, in my opinion, that perhaps one of the most important things in sports culture is the sense of competition.
01:09Sport teaches you to compete. It teaches you to compete when you are small, when you are big.
01:13And this, in my opinion, is another great value.
01:16Because we are the ones who, in the end, when we have our kids around for the games, we tell them that it is not important to participate, but in reality it is not like that.
01:24We take a group of kids, we make them play with a ball, we see that instinctively they play to win, to score goals.
01:30We are the ones who, going forward in that time, we tell them, no, but it doesn't matter, you win, don't worry.
01:35But life is competition from all points of view.
01:38And sport, in my opinion, has managed us well and has educated us in a correct way to what are the values of daily life,
01:45which is not only to compete in a football or volleyball field, but in everyday life, which is outside the sports fields.
01:51How important is it to learn to lose and then to learn to win?
01:55Look, I won a lot, I won everything that could be won, but I also lost a lot.
02:00And I believe that the passage of defeat is propaedeutic for victory.
02:04I have learned a lot more from defeats than from victories.
02:07Because defeat makes you look in the mirror and makes you say continuously that you have to keep working without finding excuses or alibis.
02:17There is a big difference between those who do normal sports practice and those who do it to win.
02:23Unfortunately, I have always been preoccupied with doing one thing alone, playing to win, to get first.
02:28So I consider victory to be fundamental, important.
02:32But I consider defeat to be propaedeutic.
02:35Without it, I would never have won anything.
02:37So every time I lost, I felt bad like a dog.
02:40But I was determined to see what I had to work on, to improve and to be a better person.
02:45Giampaolo, we are facing a transversal phenomenon like Yannick Sinner, which is dragging all the sport.
02:54How important is it? We haven't seen something like this for a long time.
02:58The story repeats itself over time.
03:01There have been great moments in other sports.
03:03In the world of skiing there was Tomba.
03:05In tennis there was Panat.
03:07I believe that sports that are not football, those that are less popular,
03:11have a collective imagination when they find sports icons like Sinner in this case.
03:17So it's good for sports in general.
03:20It's good for tennis.
03:22Even today there are 8 other players who are playing Wimbledon.
03:26So it's very competitive, even within the discipline itself.
03:31It's good for the country too.
03:33You can find yourself in an individual sport.
03:36When this is a country that only supports football and team discipline, it's very good.