Football in mourning: Mauro Bellugi died, his battle had moved everyone | News

The world of football is crying Mauro Bellugi. The former footballer of Inter, Bologna, Naples and Pistoiese died this morning in a hospital in Milan. He was 71 years old, turned 7 February. He had recently suffered the amputation of both legs as a result of Covid-19 and his story had moved everyone by the strength of mind with which he had faced the drama after the first moments of despair. “Covid has aggravated a pre-existing blood disease of mine. I don’t want to die.”

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Bellugi he was hospitalized on 4 November last because he tested positive for Covid-19. His health conditions had worsened in recent weeks until he required emergency surgery for complications that occurred later. But after the leg amputation he continued to have serious problems.

“When the doctors told me: ‘Mr. Bellugi has an hour to decide’ – my legs were black up to the groin, suddenly the gangrene had taken everything in me – ‘What does he want to live or die? Because if he wants to live we have to cut ‘- I immediately said I wanted to live, I didn’t want to die – he had told our colleague from Sportmediaset Angiolo Radice – I joke about everything. What happened to me happened. Things happen, you have to do ? A wise man said: if the thing is unsolvable, why worry? Thank God I don’t worry, I have solved it for the moment and I want to solve it completely “.

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