his sister and Massimo Mauro go to see him – Corriere.it

In central London, in a clinic not far from his home in Belgravia and not even from his Stamford Bridge, Gianluca Vialli continues his fight against cancer to the pancreas which he was diagnosed in 2017 and which he first spoke about in an interview with Corriere della Sera
(It takes you as a sense of shame, as if what happened to you was your fault. I went around with a sweater under my shirt, so that the others wouldn’t notice anything).

On Saturday, the visit of his 87-year-old mother, Maria Teresa, and his brother Nino, who then returned to Cremona on Monday for Christmas. Soon, probably already today, that of his sister Mila, and perhaps also of the other brothers Marco and Maffo. But he will also be close to one of his closest friends or Massimo Mauro former Juventus and Napoli player and creator with him of the Vialli and Mauro Foundation against ALS.

There is little to get around it: on 14 December the former striker of the national team and of Cremonese, Sampdoria, Juventus and Chelsea greeted the staff of Roberto Mancini — head of the Azzurri’s delegation — explaining: At the end of a long and difficult “negotiation” with my wonderful team of oncologists I have decided to suspend, hopefully temporarily, my present and future professional commitments. Suddenly, the aggravation to the point of being hospitalized. Nothing leaks from official sources, there are no medical bulletins, but there are therapies for a battle that has been going on for five years.

And there are friends, the old ones, who support him. Antonio Cabrini, from Cremona like Vialli, also wrote him a letter through the Province
, the newspaper of their capital: The opponent, what you call “the unwanted travel companion”, is playing dirty, like a defender who sinks the tackle, not to win the ball, but to hurt the opponent. And so I, as your companion-friend, am writing to give you courage.

John Terry, Chelsea flag launched in Vialli’s Blues shirt, instead chooses Twitter to send his support to the former coach: Be strong and continue to fight Luca. We all think of you. We send you love, strength and prayers.

Stay Strong and keep fighting Luca
We are all thinking of you. We are sending our love, strength and prayers.@ChelseaFC pic.twitter.com/i3Ax5lX25y

— John Terry (@JohnTerry26) December 20, 2022

Even Gianfranco Zola, who lives in London, ideally next to his friend. As well as the former Juve player and Rai commentator Claudio Marchisio and many other protagonists of the world of sport and not only from Massimo Moratti to Lapo Elkann, to Fedez.