Paolo Nano's life after the VHL

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Paolo Nano life after hockey was all about enjoying life in the Italian sun until his son began to get Serious about hockey. The first few years of Paolo's retirement were split between Turin during the hockey season and the Amalfi coast during the summer months. In the summer time, Paolo would move his family to the beautiful island of Capri which has been a simmer escape since Roman times. The island of Capri has been a resort island for the elite and rich for milleniums and that was the life Paolo always dreamed of. His career in the VHL has allowed him to be living the dream. The Emperor Tiberius moved to the island for the final 10 years of his reign and ever since it's been associated with Ancient Rome. Capri is just a short ferry ride from the mainland. The Amalfi coast is one of the most beautiful and tourist heavy regions of Italy. It's a region full of lemons and is famous for its limoncello which is a liquor made from lemons. One of Paolo favourite restaurants is that short ferry ride into Sorrento which is a beautiful town south of Naples where you can see Capri on a nice day. That restaurant is called O’Parrucchiano and at the restaurant you are basically dinning in a lemon orchard. The restaurant is famous for its cannelloni dish as it's the birth place of that type of pasta. Canelloni is a stuffed pasta that usually comes in three tubes stuffed with either minced meat or ricotta and it's Paolo favourite type of stuffed pasta.  

 

This was the life that Paolo and his family lived for the first few years of his retirement. The family would reside in Turin during the hockey season so that Alessando could play the game that his father loved so much. It didn't take too long for Alessandro to fall in love with the game as well despite most of his friends being heavily into soccer as most Italians are. As Alessando got older he showed great talent and Paolo felt that his son may also have a future one day. Paolo played most of his career in Moscow as one of the original members of the team in the expansion draft. Paolo knew a bunch of people in the Moscow hockey community and used that influence to get a spot for Alessando to further his hockey development. Italy is a beautiful place to live but not the best place to try to raise a professional hockey player. Although Paolo developed on Italy he felt his son would have more opportunities in Russia. So when Alessando was 12 years old Paolo decided to move to Moscow so that Alessandro could get a better hcoeky education. Parents make sacrifices for their kids all the time and for Paolo he have up his Italian lifestyle so that his son could one day play in the VHL like he did. Ever since the move to Moscow Paolo has been following his son around the hcokey world to see him play. Since moving to Moscow, Paolo has followed his son to Saskatoon where he also started his career. After his first season Alessandro was drafted by Miami where dad saw him lift the founders cup, an acheivement he was never able to accomplish. Paolo has now followed his son to Vasteras where Alessando is playing in the VHLE inagraual season. Alessando was drafted by Helsinki, the same team who drafted Paolo but he never played a game for the club. Paolo will presumably follow his son to Helsinki next season assuming he doesn't get traded.  

 

I'm summary, Paolo post VHL life began with a relaxing Italian lifestyle which was then traded in to watch his son trace his dream all around the hcokey world. Paolo hopes to one day see Alessando lift the continental Cup, something he never got to experience.