Alessandro Campolungo is a 14-year-old boy who, due to family problems, had to move with his mother and sister from Bologna to Rome.

Obviously, integrating with the other kids wasn't easy at all; the different habits certainly didn't help, and the main sport in Rome is football, which Alessandro hates.

The "Bolognese," as the other boys call him, will manage to overcome his problems without discouragement, also thanks to a boy from whom Alessandro would never have expected help.

It's a story that, despite being set in the 80s, talks about common teenage problems that could affect any boy.

I highly recommend this book also because it is written in a simple and flowing way.

In this book, Tommaso Avati tells the story of teenager Alessandro Campolungo, who must move from Bologna to Rome with his mother Elisa and sister Sara. The protagonist is a fourteen-year-old who, throughout the novel, must relate to his peers, but having just moved, he encounters difficulties. Unlike Alessandro, his younger sister Sara has managed to relate to her new classmates. The boy meets a girl, Martina Figus, and tries to change to impress her. However, she is having an affair with Marco Balestra, the captain of the Lazio youth team. Alessandro, despite his lack of interest, tries to learn to play soccer to impress the girl he has "fallen in love" with. Despite the ongoing problems with his mother, sister, and partner, Alessandro trains with Tommy. The book ends with a soccer match between the two classes, D and B, and Alessandro and Marco challenge each other to show Martina who is the male in charge.

In my opinion, the novel is very smooth and enjoyable to read. Among the things I liked, for example, was the common theme of many of us, constantly faced with new situations (meeting new people, first loves). Another thing that struck me was that even though it's set in the 1980s, it describes the protagonist's problems in a contemporary way.

Alessandro Campolungo is a 14-year-old boy who recently moved from Bologna to Rome for family problems.

The young man will have to interact with kids his own age, but with completely different habits. In Rome, football is everything, and for Alessandro, who truly hates it, integration won't be easy.

The "Bolognese," as some of the kids at his school call him, will be able to overcome many events, which for his age represent real dramas, without ever being discouraged.

The language is colloquial and the reading is very fluent and pleasant. 

As far as I'm concerned, it's a truly beautiful book; even though it's set in the 1980s, in a very different reality from today's, it beautifully describes and explains the thoughts and moods of teenagers.

Alessandro Campolungo is a 14-year-old Roman boy who recently moved to Bologna with his mother and sister to live with his paternal grandmother.

Fitting in is extremely difficult for him due to the different habits between him and the kids his age.

In Rome there is one great love: football.

Alessandro, however, doesn't seem to be interested in this sport, also because of his father, a great footballer at the time of the first Giallorossi championship, who abandoned him when he was still very young.

But soon Alessandro will try to like this sport in order to win over Martina Figus, the girl he is madly in love with.

The boy will succeed in achieving his goal despite the many difficulties he will encounter along the way.

The language is simple and understandable and the reading is smooth.

I highly recommend this book because, despite being set in the 1980s, it deals with common episodes in the lives of teenagers today.