"Atalanta" defender Gianluca Mancini is awaiting a special match in the "Serie A" championship.
On Sunday he will play against Milan's "Inter" club, whose colors were defended by the world champion Marco Materazzi for a long time.
G.Mancini simply adores the controversial player and revealed that he has a tattoo with his jersey number.
"When I was 16 years old, I played for the youth team of "Fiorentina" and still decided to tattoo the number 23.
I wanted to have a visible part of my idol.
I started to respect Materazzi from the 2006 World Cup - I liked how he approached games and fought for every ball. He never backed down even in difficult moments," Mancini said.
"Later I watched the game of other defenders, such as Alessandro Nesta, Sergio Ramos, Lilian Thuram, but Marco was always a step above."
