The story of the "Maradona of prisons". The rebirth of Fabrizio Maiello – from the plan to kidnap the Sardinian bomber, Gianfranco Zola, to testimonial for prisoners – has arrived in Sardinia .

This morning, Maiello recounted his experience, marked by criminal actions, but also by a path of redemption and love for others, to the students of some schools in Cagliari to pass on his experience to them and inspire them to do the same.

Guest of Sister Silvia Carboni and Don Walter Onano, this evening he will be at the Foyer of the Teatro Massimo. Tomorrow, however, at the Quartucciu juvenile prison and in Monserrato. And on Sunday he will watch the match between Cagliari and Bologna in the Curva Futura of the Unipol Domus .

Also a guest of Mariangela Lampis on "La Strambata" on Radiolina, Fabrizio Maiello expressed the desire to meet Oliena's bomber , Gianfranco Zola, to apologize to him just for having thought, thirty years ago, that he could kidnap him . But the plan suddenly changed when his eyes met those of the footballer, from whom he asked for the autograph which he asked for on his identity card.

"I have changed, I am a different man, the ball saved me," he said with tears in his eyes .

Today, after years spent in the judicial psychiatric hospital, he is a free man, 59 years old, he is an activist against the mafia , he tells his story to young people through legality projects.

Passionate about football, he had to interrupt his career due to a knee injury, he had no plan B and this led him onto the path of crime, with robberies, drugs and prison.

Having joined the national priests team, he is the team's striker . Furthermore, on 8 September, in honor of the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for the third consecutive year, he walked through the streets of the historic center of Reggio Emilia to set the new record of one consecutive hour of dribbling.