Former Inter Mauro Bellugi, the drama of amputated legs after Covid- Corriere.it



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He also found the strength to joke, after an ordeal that lasted months. Mauro Bellugi, seventy, former defender of Inter, Bologna, Naples, Pistoiese (227 games in Serie A, zero goals) and in the national team, he suffered the amputation of both legs.

The situation worsened with Covid’s hospitalization on November 4: the lower limbs already had problems due to other pathologies and had to be removed. He told Luca serafini by @ altropensiero.net, with the courage of always with which he marked the strongest forwards in the world. Bellugi He grew up in the Nerazzurri youth ranks, making his first-team debut in 1969 and winning the Scudetto 1970-71 at just 20 years old. On November 3, 1971 he scored the only goal of his career, in the European Cup 71-72 against the German Borussia Moenchengladbach (in the match won by Inter 4-2). Among other things, this year the rival of Antonio Conte’s team in the Champions League.


In 1974 his transfer to Bologna, where he played until 1979, becoming a benchmark in the defense of the Emilianos, despite the serious injury remedied in the 1976-77 season (he only played two games). He moved to Napoli in 1979-80 and in Pistoiese in 1980-81, ending his career in Tuscany. Its withdrawal occurs due to leg injuries. With the jersey of the national team between 1972 and 1980 he made 32 appearances, playing the World Cup in 74 in West Germany and in 1978 in Argentina. If on German soil Italy had been eliminated in the first round, in South America they had finished fourth.

And after Bellugi he became an appreciated television commentator. He has been seen often in recent years on the 7 Gold radio station to comment on the matches and all the events in the world of football. With lucidity, seriousness and just irony. Speaking without even raising his voice. “They also took off the leg with which I scored the BorussiaHe said. His wife Lory added that a few days after the operation, he was looking for prosthetics on the internet: “I will take Pistorius’s, so I will advance you in television studios,” he joked with Serafini.

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