Paolo Rossi, funeral on Saturday in Vicenza and funeral home in Menti

Paolo Rossi’s farewell will be held on Saturday morning at the Cathedral of Vicenza, the city that changed the course of his career and dragged Serie A with goals. “We are trying to understand how to organize an event of this magnitude right now,” said Vicenza Mayor Francesco Rucco.

The funeral home

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Since this morning, the body of Paolo Rossi has been in the morgue of the Le Scotte hospital in Siena, where he was admitted after the worsening of the disease that he was diagnosed with last spring. The funeral home was installed inside the structure, but following coronavirus containment provisions, it is open only to close family and friends. In the rooms in front of the entrance there are many people, including several friends of the footballer.

Minute of silence and mourning of the city

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Yesterday Paolo Rossi was remembered with a minute of silence before all Europa League games. UEFA decided it. In Vicenza, mourning for the city has been proclaimed and there are flags at half mast in municipal buildings for the death of Paolo Rossi, who received honorary citizenship on February 18.

The ceremony

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As he himself wished, the funeral of Paolo Rossi will take place in the Cathedral of Vicenza. The funeral ceremony, scheduled for Saturday December 12 at 10.30 am, will have ticket quotas managed directly by the family of the sample. Today the coffin that arrives from Siena will be awaited at the gates of the city and escorted by the local police to the Menti stadium, where it will be received in private by the directors and the team of LR Vicenza who collaborate in the organization of the funeral, in close contact with the Municipality and the family. For citizens, the funeral home will remain open inside the stadium from 3 to 8 p.m. Following a rigid path defined in a technical table coordinated this afternoon by the Prefecture, citizens will be able to parade in front of the coffin for Pablito’s last farewell in compliance with the distancing Social. The TeleChiara station will broadcast the entire mass live.