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A few days after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, another piece of football history is leaving. He was 64 years old and had been ill for some time
by Dario Ceccarelli
A few days after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, another piece of football history is leaving. He was 64 years old and had been ill for some time
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It was Paolo Rossi. Mr. Rossi of our youth that when you went abroad, in that unforgettable summer of 1982, everyone, absolutely everyone, even if you were in Nepal, when they understood that you were Italian, they told you, perhaps paralyzing you a little: “Ah, you are? Italian? Paolo Rossi, Paolo Rossi… ».
Incredible, almost surreal. A few days after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, another piece of football history is leaving. He leaves due to an illness that has plagued him for a long time, but he was only 64 years old and, unlike Maradona, he was not a survivor of a bigger story than him.
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Your normal life, not a pop star
Paolo Rossi, who was “Pablito” for everyone, after football and after that incredible world cup that with his goals allowed Italy to become world champion, managed to lead a “normal” life without all the ups and downs and melancholy that they bring. many champions when they hang up their shoes. No, Paolo Rossi was Paolo Rossi. A man who had maintained his extraordinary normalcy by gradually stepping out of the spotlight of popularity.
Of course, he was a television commentator, he used to respond (without ever refusing) to any interview on a football topic, but he was not a prisoner of celebrity networks. No, he had built an “after” almost like a common citizen: he was involved in construction, he had a company in Vicenza, then he had gone to live in a beautiful farmhouse in Tuscany in Bucine. A life without excesses, after a first marriage he remarried Federica Cappelletti. He also had three children, two girls and a boy. A normal family, without tears, without tearing, without the clamor that almost always accompanies the lives of such illustrious characters.
He was not a “pop star” like so many current players. She lived her life, with irony and a touch of melancholy, but a beautiful melancholy, neither spiteful nor too nostalgic. He had also participated in “Dancing with the Stars” but like that, in his own way, with a smile on his lips. From a technical point of view, Rossi was not a phenomenon like Maradona or Messi. He was a “steal” player. He had an exceptional talent for goals that allowed him to always be in the right spot at the right time. As had happened in that incredible game against Zico’s Brazil in the quarterfinals of the 1982 World Cup.
