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A devastating disease, which had sapped Paolo Rossi in physique but not in the temperament of a champion trying to fight and win the greatest of his battles. The ultimate symbol of the valiant fight against cancer is the testimony of the brother of ‘Pablito’, Rossano who was close to him until the last moment: “I saw him last time only yesterday, he couldn’t recognize me anymore, he was slowly fading now but he fought like a lion until the last moment.“.
Rossano, Paolo’s older brother, along with his family and very few other relatives, supported Pablito throughout the course of the disease, maintaining the utmost confidentiality according to the will of the champion himself who had preferred not to reveal his state of health, facing him alone, without clamoring: “He did his best to deal with the treatments, right to the end. In a few months he underwent many interventions, impacting treatments, with the tumor that manifested itself in a lung and then expanded, also affecting the bones.“.
Pain, fatigue, treatments, interventions and hospitalizations. But also the will of Paolo Rossi to remain tied to his world, to those who loved him, to those who wanted to hear him talk about football because with football he had given dreams and adventures to more than a simple generation. And his gentle way of becoming an attentive commentator had brought him closer even to those who had not been able to experience it in the country.
“He agreed to receive an injection from the doctor to stay awake for the duration of his televised intervention. It cared“says his brother Rossano.”He liked to be present as soon as possible, even connecting from home, with his PC as is done now in times of isolation, despite everything he wanted to return to his audience ‘detaching’ from his own discomfort“.
An indomitable Paolo Rossi, as the images that flow in these hours on the football fields and in the penalty areas remind him, to continue making his contribution to the great passion of his life, the ball. “He was weakened but resisted. It was not Covid who took it, but a tumor. In recent times it was difficult to see, I myself had access to the clinic only with the permission of the doctors as soon as they restored it. “
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