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The effort to build a skate park under the Zakim Bridge has long been caked in toxic soil, twisted in bureaucracy, and snagged by miscommunication. The Charles River Conservancy (CRC), the Cambridge non-profit that spearheaded the project more than 10 years ago, . Yet as of today, eight years later, the designated spot remains a brown field.
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Because of that, I was more than a little skeptical that any progress would be made on the project when it came out in July that Vans, the California skate shoe brand,  to the CRC to get things moving. The organization already had more money than it said it needed; what the hell is a million and a half more?
 
  
Then, on Thursday, the CRC posted to its website that an official groundbreaking was scheduled for October 23 at 9 a.m., rain or shine. I reached out to Renata von Tscharner, founder of the CRC, to confirm that I wasn鈥檛 hallucinating.
 
  
鈥淵ou are right,鈥?she wrote in an email. 鈥?V>ery exciting.鈥?
 
While I鈥檓 fully expecting an asteroid to wipe out Boston before anyone actually puts shovel to dirt on this project, it does seem that finally, after all these years, after all this money from grants and public donations has sat dormant for so long, that the city is about to receive its very own state of the art skate park.
 
  
I鈥檓 still entrenched firmly in Camp I鈥檒l-Believe-It-When-I-See-It, but nevertheless, now seems like a good time to put into perspective just how long it has taken to get this thing rolling because the wait has truly proven to be an era of its own.
 
  
Consider that for roughly half of Mayor Tom Menino鈥檚 21-year term in office, this project was in planning. That might be more of a testament to the Mumbles epoch than anything else, but it鈥檚 wild to think that for half of the tenure of the longest serving mayor this city has ever seen, the effort to build a skate park in the Hub never appeared, on the surface anyway, to be anything other than utterly stagnant.
 
  
  
The Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and Red Sox all won a combined six titles in the time that has passed between the park鈥檚 initial announcement and its now imminent groundbreaking.
 
  
Whitey Bulger, on the lam for years before the project was even announced, evaded the feds for eight years before his 2011 capture in Santa Monica, Calif. Not only that, Boston鈥檚 most infamous gangster was tried and convicted for a litany of crimes in the subsequent years before we got this close to having a skate park.
 
  
Seriously, if someone asked you in 2004 what would happen first 鈥?Boston gets a skate park or Boston gets closure to the Whitey Bulger saga 鈥?what would you have said? A skate park, no doubt.
 
  
Yet here we are, a little more than a week away from construction. We can finally take seriously the sign at the site that reads, 鈥淪hred Ahead,鈥?which until now has been an empty promise.
 
  
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Graziano Pelle looks likely to start for Italy against Malta this evening and the man who launched his career, Delio Rossi, is pleased for him.
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Graziano Pelle's excellent start to the season for Southampton may have earned him the chance to lead the line for Italy against Malta.
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Pelle was favoured over Mario Balotelli for a place in Antonio Conte's squad and the Italian press believe he will start this evening.
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Italy beat Azerbaijan 2-1 in their last outing, but their strikers didn't find the net, instead relying on defender Giorgio Chiellini to score twice, as well as netting an own goal.
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Simone Zaza is injured and Pelle may well be paired with Ciro Immobile in attack against minnows Malta, which is a good chance to make his mark.
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For Delio Rossi, the coach who spotted Pelle at Lecce, the achievement will owe everything to hard work.
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"When he was at Lecce he still had a lot of things to work on, but Graziano is one of those who is self-motivated and has earned everything he has achieved on the pitch.
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"I am very happy with how his career has developed. It goes to show that you get results in the end."
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Pelle started his career at Lecce where he came through the youth ranks to play in the senior side between 2004 and 2007 before travelling to the Netherlands and AZ.
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Was Graziano Pelle the signing of the summer?
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Paul WatsonPaul Watson wrote for Football Italia for four years before fleeing to the tiny Micronesian island of Pohnpei to coach the world's lowest ranked national football team. On his return he released a book called 'Up Pohnpei' in February 2012. A documentary called The Soccermen follows in early 2014 and a feature film of the book is in production. Paul is currently head coach at a new Mongolian Premier League club and is charged with the mission of creating the strongest team in Mongolian football history.
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Graziano Pelle looks likely to start for Italy against Malta this evening and the man who launched his career, Delio Rossi, is pleased for him.

 
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Graziano Pelle's excellent start to the season for Southampton may have earned him the chance to lead the line for Italy against Malta.
Pelle was favoured over Mario Balotelli for a place in Antonio Conte's squad and the Italian press believe he will start this evening.
Italy beat Azerbaijan 2-1 in their last outing, but their strikers didn't find the net, instead relying on defender Giorgio Chiellini to score twice, as well as netting an own goal.
Simone Zaza is injured and Pelle may well be paired with Ciro Immobile in attack against minnows Malta, which is a good chance to make his mark.
For Delio Rossi, the coach who spotted Pelle at Lecce, the achievement will owe everything to hard work.


"When he was at Lecce he still had a lot of things to work on, but Graziano is one of those who is self-motivated and has earned everything he has achieved on the pitch.
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"I am very happy with how his career has developed. It goes to show that you get results in the end."

Pelle started his career at Lecce where he came through the youth ranks to play in the senior side between 2004 and 2007 before travelling to the Netherlands and AZ.

Was Graziano Pelle the signing of the summer? Paul WatsonPaul Watson wrote for Football Italia for four years before fleeing to the tiny Micronesian island of Pohnpei to coach the world's lowest ranked national football team. On his return he released a book called 'Up Pohnpei' in February 2012. A documentary called The Soccermen follows in early 2014 and a feature film of the book is in production. Paul is currently head coach at a new Mongolian Premier League club and is charged with the mission of creating the strongest team in Mongolian football history.

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