Ex-QPR and Italy worldwide star is now politician who’s Mayor of Verona
George Weah eat your coronary heart out, this Italian World Cup star has moved on from the attractive recreation and has now change into the mayor of town he grew up in.
A Scudetto and Italian Super Cup champion, Damiano Tommasi was a stalwart for AS Roma throughout the 2000s, and was born and raised within the province of Verona.
Now, because the mayor of the realm, Tommasi’s profession has gone down the same path to Pele, Andriy Shevchenko, Romario and Liverpool’s Titi Camara in swapping footy boots for political ones.
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After making over 75 appearnces for his boyhood membership, Tommasi started his prolonged spell within the Italian capital, taking part in alongside the likes of Gabriel Batistuta and Francesco Totti.
In 2008, earlier than they had been promoted to the Premier League in 2011, Tomassi moved from Levante and donned the white and blue strips of the west London membership seven occasions, earlier than leaving Gareth Ainsworth’s aspect.
A transfer to China did not actually work out, so a 35-year-old Tommasi joined his two briothers to play newbie soccer in his house nation. Then, a small stint to be able to play within the Europa League with San Marino-based aspect La Fiorita adopted as the long run mayor dipped his toes into politics for the primary time.
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He turned the president of the Italian Footballer’s Association, a job he held for 9 years till resigning in 2020 till it was introduced he’d be operating in for Verona’s mayoral place in 2022. The centre-left Tommasi gained in a historically right-wing metropolis, upsetting the percentages by beating out his opponents.
A humble legend for the I Giallorossi, Tommasi’s profession has been one for ages as he follows within the footsteps of a number of the recreation’s greats in exhibiting their expertise would not purely lie on the pitch.
