Andrea Strawberry He saved the lives of two young girls from certain drowning at sea during his summer vacation at Italy.
Former Panathinaikos coach Andrea Stramatsoni was on a beach in Apulia when he realized how something was wrong in the sea.
The 49 -year -old Italian technician saw two girls aged 17 and 19 struggling to be drowning, while the lifeguard could not help both on his own.
Without a second thought, Stramatsi dived into the sea and managed to pull the girls out of the water.
“The lifeguard would never do it alone. I started to be scared, mainly because the girl was dragging me into the water. He was convinced that he would die,” Stramatsoni explained.
He does not want to be called hero, but that of Andrea #Stramaccioni It is a gesture of applause that saved two lives
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He then referred to what his son told him after the end of the adventure: “My son asked me,” Daddy, and if you had died? “I did from a feeling of protection, as if he were my wife or one of my children in the water. That area, however, are dangerous.
I am not a hero, but those girls would drown and the lifeguard, with that sea, would not succeed. I didn’t think about it a second time and dived. I say this because those who read it should keep in mind that the most important good is life. “