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Respect your Opponents and Win!
The bright star that shines on the Boreale’s badge represents the Pole Star while the team’s color is purple which stands for humility, a trait which the League intends to use to win.
The name Boreale stands for their location, on the north side of Rome, just like the Aurora Boreale, which illuminates the Poles for 6 months.
The Boreale’s intention is to enlighten Rome’s athletic circle, not necessarily with high scores, but through their loyalty and good behavior, both on and off the field.
This Sporting Union, born in 1946, was founded by Father Marino Marani together with Bernardino Passi, Vittorio Soldini and Orazio Marchetti.
Financial help is provided through membership fees and small contributions made by the Coni Association. The rest is based on volunteer work done by managers and technicians.
The Boreale makes a point of playing good clean soccer, without having other pretenses, something which many young athletes have forgotten.
These athletes come from Ponte Milvio and surroundings—Flaminio, Cassia and Corso Francia. They are enrolled in various competitions organized by the Italian Soccer Federation and participate in numerous tournaments with excellent results.
Father Marino Marani: The Founder
Father Marino’s mind was forever working on a different frequency than that of the normal human being. His generosity along with an unequalled spirit of contradiction brought him necessarily to a natural confrontation.
Don Marino lived his priesthood completely, having a deep understanding for mankind’s value, worth more than any opinion. For this reason he felt that all men must be loved and respected even when their ideas are different from our own.
He was an outgoing, exuberant person, talented, reserved and stubborn without being strict.
Since he worked with young people so much, he attained many important experiences which he used at the right time with the Boreale League. He didn’t invent anything new but used his experience of previous encounters.
Father Marino used sports to lure boys who lived in poverty, oppressed by great difficulties, to bring them to know God.
His work was dedicated to helping others by teaching ways of living which allowed young men to learn to work together as a group and the awareness that everything in life can be obtained through serious and constant hard work.
Playing Sports: An instrument for Growth
Faith and sports for Father Marino represent two very similar values since the latter makes the first grow. This isn’t the only quality of sports: he was very aware that sports are an essential part of life.
Sports better a person physically, teach respect for our fellowman and help use up the plentiful energy present in youth in a clean way. Sports are a wonderful means of confrontation in which a small amount of hostility is allowed, since man is naturally aggressive and needs to manifest this aggressiveness in some way; it’s best to do so on a soccer field, by making a goal in the opponent’s net rather than elsewhere.