<span class="titolo">Taddei: I Miss My Dead Brother Every Day</span></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <span class="sommario">Roma star Rodrigo Taddei has revealed just how much he misses his brother, who died in a tragic car accident four years ago.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">The Brazilian winger has established himself into one of the best widemen in Serie A and he has been in stunning form since returning from two months out injured.<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Last Sunday he scored the winner against Udinese at the Stadio Olimpico, before then scoring both of Roma’s goals in the midweek victory over <st1:city w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Cagliari</st1lace></st1:city>.<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Four years ago in 2003, while Taddei was playing for <st1:city w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Siena</st1lace></st1:city>, he was involved in a serious car accident after a tyre in the car they were travelling in burst. His younger brother Leonardo was killed, while Rodrigo was left fighting for his life in hospital.<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">He eventually pulled through but the horrors of those dreadful events still haunt him.<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">“From that moment onwards my life has never been the same,” said Taddei. “I really miss my brother and I seek him every day.”<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Taddei joined Roma at the start of the 2005 season and he admits his life in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Italy</st1lace></st1:country-region> is a far cry from the impoverished surroundings of his upbringing.<o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">“I come from a favela where there was real poverty,” he explained. <o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o></o></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">“For this reason I can adapt to anything, to any training session. For me training is like a match, while a game is like a war – in the sporting sense of course.”</span></p> </div></p>
