I also know very little about footy (football) but a similar phrase in English might be Life should be taken head on Meaning - don't turn away from difficult things in life, but turn your face towards everything life will throw at you and have the courage to overcome the hard things in life (or at least learn from them!) Paul

To make the pun work in English you would need an idiom with "chest" with the meaning of "face something head on" (which is the equivalent, more or less, of the Italian "prendere le cose di petto"). Unfortunately there is no such idiom, so I'm afraid your problem is unsolvable. But maybe I'm just another Italian pretending to speak English ;-)

American here, so I know nothing about soccer :) But something like - Life hits you in the chest. Turn it around and score. or Life hits you in the chest. Kick it back and score. seem to be kind of close.

If the ball comes towards your chest and you control the ball, the expression is "take the ball on the chest". I think "rovesciata" in football is a bicycle kick - an acrobatic shot on goal when you turn upside-down (al rovescio). "goal" means "goal"! So, if I am right, you could say: "Take life on the chest, and bicycle-kick it into the goal!" or more literally "Life is taken on the chest and bicycle-kicked into the goal" I am sure it sounds better in Italian because it doesn't sound very good to me in English! Check on the Italian forums too and paste this link. There are lots of good English speakers on the Italian forums and they should be able to tell you if I have translated well.