This evening after the soccer game, I willgo to Vallerano, my father's birthplace, just ten minutes from Soriano. I've been invited to have dinner at the home of distant cousins. We will struggle with the language, trying to speak simply about simplethings, repeating phrases which seemed to work in previous visits. We will catch up on the news since my last visitthree years ago. If the Italian team wins the soccer game,there will be parades and demonstrations in every village.
Soccer is big here.