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This morning the funeral of Paolo Rossi, ex-footballer and winner of the 1982 World Cup, who died at the age of 64 between 9 and 10 December, was held in the Cathedral of Vicenza this morning. At the funeral, held in the city for whose team (Lanerossi Vicenza) Rossi had played in the early years of his career, several former footballers and their former teammates were present, from the national team but also from Lanerossi Vicenza, from Perugia. , Juventus and Milan.
Antonio Cabrini, who along with other members of the team that won the ’82 World Cup in Spain took the coffin with Rossi’s body out of the church, said of him that he was not “just a friend, but a brother.”
During the championship round underway this weekend, initiatives are planned to pay tribute and remember Rossi. While writing ANSA, “The players will go out onto the field with mourning in their arms and before the kick-off of each game a minute of meditation will be observed, at the end of which a historical audio will be transmitted that will recall the exploits of the former striker in the 1982 World Cup.”
Rossi will be cremated and his ashes will be buried in Bucine, in the Arezzo province, where he lived with his wife and two daughters.
– Read also: How Paolo Rossi jammed “the machine of football history”
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