MILANO GLAVNI GRAD EVROPE MILAN IS THE CAPITAL OF EUROPE N ije mi bilo svejedno kada sam pre 18 godina prvi put stigao u Italiju da zaigram u Laciju. Beograd je me- tropola, ali Rim je ipak nešto drugo. Tekst / Words: Dejan Stanković Fotografije / Photography: Getty images, iStock OD NAŠEG SPECIJALNOG DOPISNIKA
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I was excited when I first arrived in Italy 18 years ago to play for Lazio. Bel- grade is a metropolis, but Rome is somet- hing else. Grandiose, loud and fast. And yet, when you get to know it, all at once you have it in the palm of your hand. You grasp its secrets, traverse its streets, go out from the centre and see that Rome is so much more than what is offered by the city cen- tre. It didn’t take much for me to lead my friends to those surrounding hills, lakes and
Grandiozan, pomalo uznemirujući, glasan i brz. A opet, kad ga upoznaš, odjednom ga imaš kao na dlanu. Shvatiš njegove tajne, prođeš ulicama, izađeš dalje od centra i vi- diš da je Rim tako mnogo više od onoga što nudi gradsko jezgro. Nije mi trebalo mnogo da prijatelje povedem na te okolne brežulj-
magical places that people rarely come to visit because they get lost in the beauty of the city centre. Italy has long been my second home, but I remember that I first fell in love with the food here. At that time, back in 1998, pasta was not as popular in Belgrade as it is today, so I discovered a new culinary world that I am still hopelessly in love with today. At that time my favourite dish was pasta quattro formaggi, with four phenomenal Italian cheeses, but today I prefer the one with seafood. Nevertheless, despite all the advantages of Rome, when I came to Milan and played for Inter I re- alised that it was actually this city
ke, jezera i čarobna mesta koja retko ko stigne da po- seti jer se izgubi u lepotama centra grada. Odavno je Italija moj drugi dom, ali pamtim da sam se ovde prvo zaljubio u hranu. U to vreme, davne 1998, u Beogradu pasta nije bila tako popularna kao da- nas, pa sam otkrio jedan nov kulinarski svet u koji sam i danas beznadežno zaljubljen. Tada mi je omiljeno jelo bila pasta quattro formaggi , sa četiri vrste fenomenalnih ita- lijanskih sireva, a danas ra- dije biram onu sa morskim plodovima.
The centre of everything is here – culture, the arts, fashion, food, life in general … Ovde je centar svega – kulture, umetnosti, mode, hrane, života uopšte…
in the north that was the best place to live! There is a huge difference between the two metropolises. I have been in Milan for 12 years already and I have merged with the relaxed, peaceful rhythm that is so diffe- rent from that of Rome. The best example of this is perhaps the games themselves. When I was at Lazio, before the derby aga- inst Roma I could not go out on the street for two weeks and, by God, even for two weeks after the
Ipak, uprkos svim prednostima Rima, kada sam došao u Milano i zaigrao za Inter, shvatio sam da je upravo ovaj grad na seve- ru najbolje mesto za život! Ogromna je ra- zlika između dve metropole. U Milanu sam već 12 godina i stopio sam se sa opuštenim, miroljubivim ritmom koji je tako drugači- ji od onog rimskog. Najbolji primer za to su možda baš utakmice. Kad sam igrao u Laci- ju, pre derbija sa Romom dve nedelje nisam
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