"Interviewer: “No regrets about not becoming a soccer player, perhaps for Inter, as your father dreamed?” Fognini: The Dellacasa family lived near our house in Arma: he was Inter's official masseur and a customer at my dad's hardware store. My dad is also a good friend of Altobelli's, so much so that in 1982 he invited him to follow the national team to Spain for the World Cup. All my childhood idols are soccer players: Materazzi the rebel, Zamorano the warrior. My father and I used to go to Pinetina to watch the training sessions. But when I was 13 and faced with a crossroads, I didn't hesitate: in tennis, you're on your own, the credit is yours, the blame is yours. There are no excuses. That's how it works."
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