Paolo Rossi died, his brother Rossano: “He fought with all his might against the disease”

Prato, December 10, 2020 – “I’ve seen it yesterday for the last time, in the Scotte. He went into a coma and didn’t recognize me. Until the day before I was smilingeven if he had lost the strength to speak. ” Rossi rossi, Paolo’s brother, two and a half years older and “pioneer” of champion’s football career says the last hours. “He had been sick since the spring, shot in the lung. Decided not to let it know, from face the disease protected by the family, without clamor. “” From the original disease – explains his brother – others have developed, even in the bones, certainly induced by the weakening that made him more vulnerable every day. No, Covid has not hit him. “

Paolo was hospitalized at the Scotte di Siena, where Rossano went to see him “on the basis of the permits that I requested and were granted to me when the doctors established him.” In the field, Paolo was not afraid. How did you cope with the illness? “In a few months he underwent surgery, underwent high-impact treatments. He did it. with courage, committing all of himself, until Saturday received the therapies. Paul had confidence of Siena health workers he had entrusted himself to them with the utmost availability and offered the doctors all the energies to overcome evil. He helped himself, with the love of his family, of us ”.

Paolo Rossi allowed himself moments of seemingly normal life, occasionally accepting invitations from television. “He is online from home PC with Sunday sports, as many do, today, in times of Covid -says Rossano-. To hold the brief interview it was necessary an injection that stopped him. The doctor had done it shortly before. He was delighted to show himself to the athletes, to his world of football. Family members announced that he had undergone back surgery to explain his absence. And it was not a lie, because in recent months he also underwent an operation on his vertebra “.

Rossano and Paolo began their football career together, under the sgaurdo of father Vittorio, to which the Campo del Santa Lucía and gave Amelia’s mother. From Santa Lucía they went to Ambrosiana. Rossano then went to the youth academy of JuventusPaolo spent some years in Tuscany, before also joining the Bianconeri. and consecrate for Como, Vicenza, Perugia as center forward of the National, loved in Italy and also abroad, “We spent our lives together – explains Rossano – We did not separate for a moment, although we were physically thousands of kilometers apart. The memory that I will keep is that of us playing football together. Children Beyond the triumphs, he will always be my paolo“.