We receive and publish the story of a reader – SF – on the difficulties encountered by disabled people in participating in major events, in this case at the stadium.

«I am 21 years old, I live in Gonnesa and together with my parents I live with my uncles, two people with 100% mental disabilities with some motor difficulties in walking.

Yesterday, after several years of watching matches on TV, the dream comes true: we go to see Cagliari - Inter live.

I write to you less enthusiastically than when I decided to take them to the stadium.

Let's start with the madness concerning the purchase of tickets: people with disabilities cannot have access to purchase tickets online but must necessarily go or be lucky enough to have someone next to them who can go to Cagliari, to the ticket service, so we have did about 60 km just to get the tickets.

We arrive at what angers me most of all: we head towards our entrance but we are blocked by a group of carabinieri who block us, because the Inter fans had to pass in those parts, and makes us pass by a dirt road without warn us in the slightest of the surprise: at the end of this road we had to climb over the guard rail. I have to be honest, in this mishap I met some angels, who with their willpower and full solidarity helped us by picking up the boys so that they could overcome the obstacle.

We arrive at the entrance, stewards who send us from one side to the other because they don't even know which gate to let us in through.

We finally manage to get in but the misadventures aren't over: taken, for the umpteenth time, from one side of the curve to the other to look for our seats which seemed to be non-existent and then say: "Sit wherever you want, where there's room ”.

The time comes to leave, a desperate carabiniere informs us that we would have to go all the way around the stadium to reach our car because one side was blocked for Inter fans to pass, the other was the area from which they would later players out. Luckily, with maximum understanding we were able to move on to the VIP part.

As I have already written, we have been so lucky, we have met helpful and supportive people who have helped us, but all this cannot go unnoticed. The difficulties of people with disabilities in being able to go to the stadium are high, the services are poor.

I hope that somehow, one day, a system can be devised that makes everything less dispersive and clearer so that such despicable situations do not arise".

SF – Gonnesa

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