Cagliari at the funeral home set up at the Domus for Gigi Riva.
With the players also the coach Claudio Ranieri, the president Tommaso Giulini, the sporting director Nereo Bonato and the managers (among them former players Andrea Cossu and Roberto Muzzi) and the club staff. The team – all wearing red and blue tracksuits – paid homage to the champion with a bouquet of flowers. “It’s difficult to find the words – said the striker Pavoletti – we lost the greatest striker of all time. All Italian fans will always love Gigi Riva. Something in common? We have never met, but one look would have been enough to understand each other: we both came from outside and loved this land and this team. Riva is an example on and off the pitch, a man of principles. What he demonstrated for this earth, no one has ever done“.
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The session of the Regional Council of Sardinia opened with a minute’s silence in memory of Riva. “Gigi Riva was not only a great sportsman but also, and above all, a great person – said the president of the Assembly Michele Pais -. A true Sardinian, not by birth but by choice, a true islander who never wanted to leave his team, his fans and his adopted land. The Sardinian institutions today celebrate him with regional mourning until the day of his funeral.” The Chamber also remembered Gigi Riva, with one parliamentarian per group, starting with Salvatore Deidda (Fdi), the first of the speakers, and Ugo Cappellacci (Fi), former president of the Region. Silvio Lai (Pd).
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Many fans at the Cagliari club headquarters in via Ariosto for a photo next to the statue of Gigi Riva.
The procession began early this morning. No flowers, but lots of emotion: more than one person shed a tear when they touched the work created about fifty years ago by a craftsman from Cagliari.
The Riva statue has a very particular history: for years it was hosted in the Cagliari bar of Marius, historic ringleader of the rossoblù fans. Then she even ended up on the stage of a theater performance.
He has been at the Cagliari club of San Benedetto for over ten years.
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Funeral on Wednesday at 4pm
Funeral services in the Basilica of Our Lady of Bonaria on Wednesday at 4pm.
The mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu, proclaimed the citizen mourning until the date of the funeral scheduled for Wednesday 24 January. “Extraordinary champion in sport, man of great values, rare example of correctness, respect and symbol for entire generations, a sign of social redemption, he loved Sardinia and the city of Cagliari, choosing it as his home, place of life and closest affections profound” we read in the provision of the mayor who deemed it his duty to make the Administration the sentiment of the entire community. With the ordinance, all public events that may have already been planned and which should have taken place during the mourning period are suspended. The regional flag will also be flown at half-mast, as declared by the President of the Region, and of the city flag in the municipal offices and in all public buildings. The municipal administration will participate in the funeral ceremony with the Banner of the City of Cagliari. Citizens, owners of commercial activities, political, social and productive organisations, sports associations are invited to express their participation in the mourning by suspending activities during the celebration of the funeral or, in case of impossibility, in the form deemed most suitable. appropriate to express adhesion to the condolences.
Riva: Sacchi in tears, “everyone in the national team respected him”
“I worked with him for five years. He left a very vivid memory: there was a certain respect from everyone. It was the presence of a great champion. Yes, I’m still moved. Yes”, he can’t hold back his tears. former national coach Arrigo Sacchi who remembers Gigi Riva on Tg1. A thought also shared by another former Italian coach, Marcello Lippi, who shared the 2006 World Cup victory with Riva: “The boys were fascinated by this person – says Lippi – this character who, moreover, had incredible simplicity and humility. He was a point of reference for everyone for his past and how he behaved in that period.”
Doctors: ‘Sudden worsening, we have tried everything’
“The situation suddenly worsened and at what point it was necessary to carry out resuscitation maneuvers and take him to the theater to carry out angioplasty. In these conditions it is difficult to reopen the coronary arteries: we managed to do it only partially. But unfortunately this did not it was enough.” This is how Bruno Loi, director of Interventional Cardiology and Hemodynamics at Brotzu, explains how they intervened last night to try to save Gigi Riva, who arrived in hospital at 3 in the morning on Monday with acute coronary syndrome. Gigi Riva exchanged the last words, before the situation worsened, with Marco Corda, head of the Cardiology department at Brotzu. It was around 5pm and preparations for dinner were underway in the ward. “He was calm – Corda said yesterday in a press conference – we were talking about this and that. He smiled and didn’t stop thanking us. What did I tell him? That he didn’t have to thank us, because we were still indebted to him”.
Raimondo Pinna, medical director of Brotzu, explained that Riva was already suffering from “multidistrict vasculopathy”. “He showed up at the hospital at 3 in the morning on Monday with an acute coronary syndrome – the manager reconstructed – An angioplasty operation was immediately proposed to him. But the patient, who was perfectly capable of understanding and wanting, asked time to think about it and he refused. The situation had stabilized, we didn’t expect what happened. Although clearly we would have proposed it again to the patient.”
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