{"id":29015,"date":"2023-01-06T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29015"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:03:40","slug":"former-italian-juventus-and-chelsea-striker-gianluca-vialli-passes-away-at-age-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/01\/06\/former-italian-juventus-and-chelsea-striker-gianluca-vialli-passes-away-at-age-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Italian, Juventus, and Chelsea striker Gianluca Vialli passes away at age 58"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Italy striker Gianluca Vialli has died at the age of 58. Vialli, who played for Chelsea during a stellar career before going to become the club\u2019s manager, had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vialli began his career at Cremonese, his hometown club, before starring in Serie A for Sampdoria and Juventus, and ended his playing career at Chelsea before going into management and coaching. He scored 16 goals in 59 appearances for Italy and featured in the <em>Azzurri<\/em>\u2019s 1986 and 1990 World Cup squads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was announced in recent weeks that Vialli would be stepping away from his role as delegation chief with the Italy team to focus on his treatment for pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had been reunited of late in the Italy setup with the head coach, Roberto Mancini, his former Sampdoria strike partner, and Vialli was hoping he would be able to resume his national-team role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc94<br><br>Ciao Luca. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8KAo9BsYaC\">pic.twitter.com\/8KAo9BsYaC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; U.C. Sampdoria (@sampdoria) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sampdoria\/status\/1611296943917125632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vialli announced he had undergone radiotherapy and chemotherapy in November 2018, having been diagnosed with cancer one year earlier. He was initially given the all-clear in April 2020, but in December 2021 he announced the disease had returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explaining his decision to suspend his Italy involvement, Vialli said on 14 December: \u201cThe goal is to use all my psycho-physical energies to help my body overcome this phase of the disease, in order to be able to face new adventures as soon as possible and share them with all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sampdoria wrote on Friday in an emotional article: \u201cYou gave us so much, we gave you so much: yes, it was love, reciprocal, infinite. A love that will not die today with you. We will continue to love and adore you because \u2013 as you well know \u2013 you are better than Pel\u00e9. And because, despite everything, our beautiful season is destined to never end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They added: \u201cWe will remember you as a boy and a relentless centre-forward, because <em>heroes are all young and beautiful<\/em> and you, since that summer of 1984, have been our hero. Strong and beautiful, with that 9 printed on the back and the Italian flag sewn on the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Udinese tweeted: \u201cA great man, a winner and a fighter on and off the pitch. You left us way too soon but we will never forget your example and your class. Ciao Gianluca.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Italy striker Gianluca Vialli has died at the age of 58. Vialli, who played for Chelsea during a stellar career before going to become the club\u2019s manager, had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. Vialli began his career at Cremonese, his hometown club, before starring in Serie A for Sampdoria and Juventus, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[9951,1221,169,8908,10505,5241,11403,9260,9259,1392,492,6220,12791,11973,2219,9261,571,5818,8840,7333,8206,5350,216,6348,3954,36,5248,594,5140],"class_list":["post-29015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-age","tag-cancer","tag-chelsea","tag-coach","tag-die","tag-died","tag-disease","tag-guanluca-vialli","tag-italian","tag-italy","tag-juventus","tag-love","tag-manager","tag-one","tag-roberto","tag-sampdoria","tag-serie-a","tag-strike","tag-strong","tag-summer","tag-treatment","tag-twitter","tag-udinese","tag-us","tag-will","tag-world","tag-world-cup","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}