Valentina Baldini, the wife of Andrea Pirlo, former great Italian soccer player, now a coach in Dubai, has recounted the tense hours she lived in the United Arab Emirates during the American-Israeli attack on Iran.
After the American and Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, while the United States recalled American citizens from 14 countries in the region, Valentina Baldini, artistic adviser and wife of Andrea Pirlo – who coaches FC United Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, spoke from Dubai to the Italian press.
Pirlo’s wife admits that she experienced moments of fear. “It is not normal for us to hear the sound of an explosion overhead or to look up at night and see a rocket flashing in the black sky.
On the night of Saturday, February 28, I was awakened by a plane flying over our house. It was dark and as soon as he passed I heard a very loud bang.
I couldn’t sleep for several hours, and my conversations with friends who live here were more active than ever, sometimes ironic, as only we Italians know“.
The situation, she explains, then returned to normal: “While my husband was fast asleep, I was thinking about how to leave, what to put in my bag to escape and the fact that I only had 100 km of autonomy left in the car.
But after this initial phase, the next day everything calmed down and the sky cleared again. Supermarkets are not empty, as they say. Their shelves are full of goods, people are working, taxis are running, hospitals are operating and restaurants are open. Life goes on, as it always does“.
“My day goes by normally“, she also declared for the publication “Corriere della Sera”. “While in Italy, some imagine catastrophic scenarios that simply do not exist here in the way they are depicted“.
Andrea Pirlo was launched into football by Mircea Lucescu at the Italian team Brescia.
