Gianluca Vialli has become today more than ever a key figure in Italy. His is not a simple role of delegation head of the Italian national football team, but his wisdom and also the newfound serenity after a very difficult moment in his life due to a serious illness, have allowed him to be at the center of the coach’s project. blue Roberto Mancini. The former Sampdoria striker dispenses advice to the players and also maintains relations with all the blue staff.
AWARD – Today he also received a Gianluca Vialli award given to him by the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana. This is the “Rosa Camuna Award”, the most important recognition of the Region which was announced by the governor of Lombardy immediately after the conquest of the European title by the national team. The governor, in delivering – together with the undersecretary of the Region with responsibility for Sport, Antonio Rossi, and in the presence of the president of the FIGC, Gabriele Gravina – the `Rosa Camuna Award ‘in Vialli, – as reported by the La Presse agency – underlined how the choice was dictated by «his brilliant career as a football player and for the extraordinary sporting and human contribution made during the experience of the European championship».
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT – “A technical-tactical coach on the pitch – reads the motivation – but above all a friend of every blue player, capable of giving advice and cementing the union of a great Italian national team in a granitic way”. Vialli thanked the governor and the Region, underlining how much this award pleases him “also and above all for its more solid Lombard roots than ever”. «A recognition – he concluded – which is also an award to the whole blue team and to my family who is always close to me».
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