Avis Stadium, a piece of Trapani, which is no longer 
Some time ago, I decided to go to Google looking for a memento of my childhood, one of those blurry, but still giving rise to - and do not know why - a mild shock to the spinal column.
A gray gate was too high a barrier, insurmountable for a child of just seven years. With the help of older girls, however, it is easy to enter in ... dell'Avis Stadium was the pitch, as you read just the gate before entering. Was "u Sampetro field", made from the strip of land stolen from the parking lots of the Palace of Justice in Trapani, including the bastion of the Impossible and the old church prefabricated. Where there is now a car park and lift quell'obbrobrioso that allows disabled people to climb to the terrace. By the way, could certainly find a solution with an aesthetic impact as lucky, rather than a concrete pillar in front of a monument of the kind!
However, I wanted to tell the story was different, precisely that of Pol Avis Stadium.
For kids of my generation quickly became a memory, but above all it was an experience of sport, friendship and fun, common to many other children of the oldest district of Trapani Trapani.
few guys involved in the management of teams in football, basketball and volleyball, which - in the years when the sport to achieve a prestigious Trapani - unpretentious offered at a healthy outlet for all those children and young people who otherwise would be forced to road, only to that.
dell'Avis Stadium was the organization behind the parish of St. Peter, his youth and the unforgettable dean Giacalone, Marshal Marino and others. But Avis
Stadium is also - in my memory - the sympathy of the project "John"!
How to forget the idea of \u200b\u200bthe mythical Mr. Hugo, who wanted us to train armed with hoes, rakes and brooms to clean up the garbage dump in which, due to carelessness and lack of civic sense of citizens and government, was forced to train.
Obviously for me, my brother and our childhood playmates and the adventure lasted the time to tell their parents what we had done that afternoon! However, it was an unforgettable experience that made this place
"the pitch of dreams" , or at least what we had to satisfy.
Well, maybe the few who remember it, the stadium evokes the neighborhood Avis S. Peter Trapani and that week at the end of June, which celebrated the devotion of the ward for the Holy. But also shows the side of a drill that is gone and probably already at that time was running out. Trapani alive and true, is certainly different from today: living, yes, but much less true! Were Piazza Games in celebration of the people, being a meeting - sometimes clash because they also fought - and entertainment, the culmination of a socialization process that made the district a group. Something which today is no longer a trace.
The old "curtigghiu" no longer exists and a bit 'maybe we're missing. We have become more solitary and less expansive, and we are only in appearance. And we are too tied to property values \u200b\u200bwithout feelings and emotions and relegated to a marginal sphere or even childish. When I was
small, perhaps, Trapani was not as beautiful as today with the beautiful historical center out "forward", the beautiful shops and so many people to stroll through its streets. But it seems to me that little by little - and not only to society Trapani, but to all Italian - has failed the salt that was to be "true." And that did not fit in any type of individual or public action to something ephemeral and empty.
In any case, anyone with photos, images, video or information about the Avis Group Stadium, get in touch with me, I'd be very happy.
