«He organized the third phase of his life»- Corriere.it

“How I miss it, Linus. I miss him a lot, I also miss this thing: I worked with him for nine years on Sky, we had some wonderful moments on TV but I spent the best moments outside, in private”. Lele Adani does not hold back the emotion, guest of Linus and Nicola Savino on radio Deejay remembering Gianluca Vialli, commemorated on Monday in the Cristo Re church in Cremona. His friend Luca relives his memories: «I seem to have him in front of me: one day he calls me and invites me to his house in Cremona. It’s me and him, we eat, we spend an afternoon together, then we sit by the pool, with our feet in the water. He looks at me and says: “Lele, can you tell me what you want to be when you grow up? Because I’m thinking about how to organize the third phase of my life”. He would have liked to do things together, call me into one of his work groups. He organized the third phase of his life. And now he unfortunately he will do it elsewhere ».

Lele Adani struggles to talk about her friend who is no longer there as she continues to relive the memory of that afternoon together. Linus then tries to remember the happiest things, because Gianluca Vialli was also a funny and very smiling person, not only in his professional or public role. «Some of his classmates said that once, in a sort of protest against a teacher, after physical education he returned to the desk with slippers, a bathrobe and the shampoo on the desk». Nicola Savino: «I showed Linus a message that he sent me years ago in which he asked me for the number of a singing teacher, our singing teacher, Paola Folli. I ask him: “Do you have to sing?”. And he: “No, I need it to better set the voice in my interventions on Sky”.