My worst football related moment in Torino II by Calcio
Being a sportjournalist is always fun. Well, at least most of the time...In august 2004 Juventus bought the swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Ajax. I was sent down to Torino by my swedish newspaper to cover the press conference and to talk to people in Torino about the new Juve-player.
It was one of those days you never think will end. I started my trip at 5 am from Sweden, got to my hotel in Torino at 11, went directly to Stadio Delle Alpi for the interviews, and then got back to the hotel at 3pm.
Dinnner-time? No way... I had to go out and ask the "normal" people on the street what they thought about Ibrahimovic, order from my boss.
Normally in Italy everyone cares about football. Everyone talks about it, don't matter if you're a 20-year-old guy, or a 92-year-old woman. You know football anyway.
Well, not in Torino... It took me three hours to find five people who knew anything about football...
And then another hour and a half to find two more people, since two of the first one didn't want to let me take a photo of them for the newspaper...
Got back to the hotel shortly before 8pm, and then my bosses back in Sweden wanted articles!!
I was writing, and writing, and writing. Until one o clock in the morning when I finally realised that I hadn't eaten anything since that tiny sandwich on the morning flight...
Ran out and got a fantastic pizza (and, ok, a cold beer too... ;) ), and then it was back to the hotel, sending home the answers from these five persons, plus the photos, plus the last other articles.
Jumped in bed at four a clock in the morning. 6 hours later I woke up, checked my e-mail, where my boss told me that I had done a great job the other night, but that they in the end hadn't used the answers from the normal people, since the newspaper was packed with articles anyway...
I could have killed someone... Just didn't know who...
Took the first train to Milano and went out with my friends there! Then I felt much better! :)