It is a meeting that the Marseillais have been waiting for for a while. Falling into a difficult group in the Europa League, Dimitri Payet’s teammates have not really shone for the moment, they who have only 3 points after 3 days. A situation far from catastrophic, but tonight’s meeting against Lazio Rome looks like a decisive match. The opportunity for the Olympians to face one of the best Italian teams and which has within it a player with surprising origins to say the least.
Only 18 years old, the young Romano Floriani is one of the young shoots with high potential of the Laziale club, but beyond his skill with the ball, it is especially his second surname that interests at the moment. The young man is none other than the great-grandson of Benito Mussolini, former Fascite dictator who ruled Italy between 1922 and 1945! A sacred lineage that the footballer assumes, even if he hopes that we will not remember only that. “I only want to be judged for the way I play football, and not for my name”, he informs the Italian radio station Radiosei.
Unfortunately for all the curious, they will not have the opportunity to see him play at the Stade Vélodrome tonight sincehe was not retained in the group making the trip to France this evening. But young Romano Floriano Mussolini has aroused curiosity across the Alps since he was called up with the professional team at the end of October for the first time. For his part, if he does not claim anything of his ancestry, he assumes his last name, which he posts on his Instagram account.