The former player had been battling illness for five years and died last Thursday evening (6)
Former star of chelsea e juventus and tie off Italy during the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, Gianluca Vialli died aged 58 after a long battle with cancer. The matches of the Italian Championship, which are broadcast peel ESPN not Star+there will be a minute of silence.
Vialli was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017 and for the second time in 2021. A statement was released by the former player’s family on Friday (6) to report the death.
» Surrounded by his family, he died last night after five years of illness to be faced with courage and dignity. We thank the many people who have supported him over the years with their love. A memory and an example lived in Jamaica in our hearts.. »
Vialli was part of the technical committee that led to Italy to success in eurocup 2020, but quit his national team job in December to focus on treatment.
« I know I’m probably not going to die of old age, I hope to live as long as possible, but I feel much more fragile than before, » Vialli said in a documentary by netflix aired on March 2022.
He wrote Cancer as « a fellow traveler » who he hoped would eventually leave him alone, after testing his mettle.
» Illness can teach you a lot about who you are and can push you beyond our superficial way of life.“, these.
President of the Italian (Site notre blog d’information) Federation, Gabriel Gravinasaid: « Gianluca was a wonderful person and leaves an unbearable void, in the selection and in all those who appreciated his extraordinary human qualities ».
Vialli first appeared as a young player with his home side cremone bolt in the third and second Italian divisions.
He a transfer to sampler in 1984 and helped the club to the most successful period in their history, winning the Coppa Italia 3 times. Vialli scored twice in Sampdoria’s defeat Anderlecht 2-0 in 1990, earning the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
He also played an important role when Sampdoria won the league title. a league in 1991 for the first and only time, scoring 19 goals.
Vialli left the Genoa club in the summer of 1992 to join juventusHowever, after a slow start, he regained his goalscoring touch and helped the Turin giants postpone the Italian championship in 1995 and Champions League in the next season.
He joined the London club chelsea on a free transfer in 1996 and became manager two years later when the Dutchman Gulli Squareyou were fired.
Under Vialli, Chelsea won the Ligue’s cup and the Coupe des Coupes in 1998 and the FA Cup two years later, before he too was fired.
Special executive role was in charge of the watford in the English second division in 2001-2002.
After leaving the management of the team, Vialli co-founded the sports investment company Capital Tifosy.
In October 2019, Vialli was appointed as the new head of the Italian delegation, meaning he was reunited with the national coach. Robert Mancinia lifelong friend and strike partner when they both played for Sampdoria, where they were known as ‘the goalkeeping twins’.
Mancini and Vialli lifted the Italians to the Euro 2020 title, which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lifting the trophy at Wembley Stadium. The Sampdoria team had lost the European Cup final against Barcelona in the same place 29 years earlier.
The couple described with a tearful hug that “was more beautiful than the hugs we used to give each other when I passed the ball to him and he scored goals,” Vialli said in a television interview. Italian. RAI in November.
Vialli leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
* Reuters information kept to this story.