Kobe Bryant: the life that the basketball legend has left behind0The former #sportsman, who died wit

Kobe Bryant: the life that the basketball legend has left behind0The former #sportsman, who died with his daughter Gianna on Sunday, was the father of three other girls and had more than half a life with his wife Vanessa#Global #TheGlobalNewsToday theglobalnewstoday.comSource by Vanguardia: Laura Villarino Barcelo LAURA VILLARINO, BARCELONAThere are losses that, however far away, are capable of bringing millions of people together. On Sunday it was known that #basketball #legend Kobe Bryant had died in a #helicopter accident with his second daughter #GiannaMaria, 13, and a few acquaintances and friends of the two.Hours after the accident, both the #world of sports on social networks, and that of culture at the #Grammy Awards gala (which took place the same night at Bryant's second home, the #StaplesCenter in #LosAngeles), cried the Death of one of the most important figures in elite sport, who, after more than 20 years of career, had hung up his boots in 2016 to focus on his family and his new projects.First yearsWith a smile that seemed inexhaustible since he was very young, Bryant had felt the "call" of basketball at a very young age, since that was his father's profession. Born on August 23, 1978 in the city of Philadelphia (USA) as the youngest of three brothers, the only son of Joe Bryant spent seven years in Italy when the patriarch changed the NBA for Italian league, reason why that, in addition to the Spanish that his wife taught him, Kobe also spoke Italian.Although at the age of 13, the athlete was already back in the United States to attend high school near his hometown, what had made him feel at home again after years abroad had been to find his first #team Basketball, the Aces.Although his beginnings were not nearly as stellar as the rest of his career, over the years and a lot of practice began to emerge in youth teams and decided to skip the usual stage of college basketball to appear directly at the #NBA Draft, after which the rest is history.Private lifeKobe Bryant, who had always been focused on his passion for basketball, managed to maintain a balance and some stability in his private life that many of his teammates didn't even dream of. The fact of being almost 20 years in the same city with the #Lakers gave him the possibility of forming a family with his partner Vanessa without having the need to move for work as usual in the elite sport.When Kobe first saw the young #woman, three years younger than him and of Mexican origin, in 1999, she felt an immediate crush, as she had commented in several interviews over the years. That meeting, which took place when Vanessa was a dancer and Bryant was already part of the #Californian NBA team, was during the filming of Tha Eastsidaz video clip of G’d Up, in which she was working.Although the beginning of their relationship was not precisely easy because of the prejudices that the athlete's parents had, who did not accept that their son's partner was not African-American, their courtship strengthened in the face of adversity and, as soon as she turned 18 Both announced their commitment to the world.After planning the wedding for almost three years, they finally gave themselves the 'Yes, I want' in an intimate ceremony in California, a fact that commemorated the athlete on January 20 on Instagram, when he posted an image of the appointment at #Disneyland they shared that day on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of their relationship.The #storm of his #infidelitiesAlthough, for a season, things had gone like silk between the two, a couple of years after the wedding, the couple went through a particular storm because of accusations of rape against Kobe Bryant. A 19-year-old girl, who worked at a hotel in Colorado where he had stayed during recovery from an injury, said she had been the victim of the athlete.Because the case did not go ahead because Bryant admitted that he had had consensual sexual relations with the woman who had accused him, his marital problems vanished as soon as he publicly apologized to his wife and gave him a ring of four million dollars as a symbol of a compromise that ended up falling apart: In 2011, after rumors of a new infidelity, Vanessa Bryant initiated a divorce process.Between the two bad streaks for infidelity already mentioned, separated by a period of almost eight years of peace, the couple lived a very sweet time in which they welcomed two of their four daughters into the world.The first, Natalia Diamond Bryant, arrived on January 19, 2003, which meant a reconciliation of Bryant with her parents after more than two years without speaking because of the union in marriage with Vanessa, something that the Bryant had not seen Good in no time.On the other hand, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, the daughter who died with the athlete in the helicopter accident on Sunday in California, was born on May 1, 2006 exactly six minutes before the daughter of also the basketball player Shaquill O'neal, That was like an uncle for the little girl.Gianna, passionate about her father's #sport, had been following Kobe's steps since she was a child. So much so that, every time they asked the athlete for her, she always assured that she believed that the talent of the little girl would lead her to play professionally in the #women's NBA (#WNBA): “They always ask me if I would have liked to have a son to follow my legacy and I say, it is not necessary, I have her. We try to give them a base and understand the amount of work and preparation that is needed to achieve excellence. ”Finally, after the second pothole for Kobe's infidelity in 2011, VanessaBryant decided to stop the divorce process she had started. Afterwards, the couple spent some very sweet years that continued with the arrival of Bianka Bella, the third daughter of the marriage, in 2016, which gave new meaning to the athlete's withdrawal from the courts in the same year.Two years later, Capri, the fourth and last daughter of the Bryant, was born, who came into their lives last June to fill with joy those that were the last months of the basketball legend.

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