The Roma Coach's Curhatan About Football Without A Warm Hug

JAKARTA - Italian football is gradually recovering. Serie A is scheduled to roll back on June 13 in accordance with medical protocol for the protection of players and all professionals. However, AS Roma coach Paulo Fonseca will miss something besides football itself. What is that?

In Fonseca's open letter broadcast on Rome's official website on Thursday evening, the Portuguese coach expressed his support for the continuation of Serie A.

"When we return to playing games, there will be some policies that must be respected," wrote Fonseca.

"Everything is implemented so that the match runs safe and full of responsibility. That's important, and I fully support," added the coach.

But at the same time Fonseca admits he will miss the moments of a warm hug he finds on the sidelines of a football match.

Hugs often color football matches or other sports events, which often appear every time there is a goal celebration or victory.

"Yes, that hug, one of the ways we celebrate the best moments in football, like goals for example," wrote Fonseca.

"The moment the goalscorer sank between the arms of his team-mates, the moment he ran towards those who supported and thanked him for his goal," he added.

Fonseca cannot help but wonder how he will celebrate the goals of his players when a football match is held amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"How? I can't hug my assistant like I usually do?" he wrote full of rhetoric.

"Almost 60 days in isolation. It's impossible to imagine being separated like this from the world, especially from my world ..." The boss has written about his feelings as players and staff return to individual training ... # ASRoma @PFonsecaCoach https : //t.co/gZ9Va9Gxnb

- AS Roma English (ASRomaEN) May 14, 2020

Fonseca closed his open letter by throwing words of wisdom, that even though he missed the hug, it would one day return.

"Right now, there are so many hugs that are more important than hugs in football, I realize that. I know that those hugs, which have an important meaning in the lives of all of us, will one day return," he wrote.

"Then, among all the hugs, the warm hug (of football) will return too. And football will remain the most exciting and fun spectacle in this country, as it has been," concluded Fonseca.

Serie A Italian League clubs have begun to return to using team facilities to train individually as a step to continue the 2019/20 season football competition.