It is noticed by Juventus and quickly passes by being a carpenter to run on the band as a full -back in Serie A. Moreno Torricelli, 55 years old, in his football career he literally won everything. Today, however, he left football, he moved to Lillianes – a small town of 400 inhabitants in the Aosta Valley -, and has returned to work the wood.
A choice, that of leaving the world of sport, matured after the tragic death of his wife at just 40 years old. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, the former footballer retraced his career and the ugliest period of his life.
From Caratese to Juventus
It is 1992 and Torricelli plays football in the company of Amateurs Caratese. However, its qualities are evident and superior to those of its category. Thus is reported to Juventus who calls him for a friendly between the youth files. “At the end of the game I stop trapattoni:” We have three tests in a week, take holidays and come to Turin “. He likes, I leave for the tour in Japan, I go back and sign the contract on the hood of a car. I pass from a salary of two million lire to 80, “he says. In four seasons he will win everything in Italy and in the world.
The death of his wife Barbara
“I met Barbara when I was 15, I immediately fell in love.” From that moment, a life together. Until 2010. She began to feel more and more tired and with a constant fever. They went to the hospital: it was leukemia.
From that moment on, a 10 -month or death or death or death began.
They left with 3 chemotherapy cycles up to the marrow transplant. At that point there was a faint hope: the situation improved, so much so that it will allow him to return home from the husband and his 3 children: Alessio, Arianna and Aurora (who had 10, 11 and 16 years old at the time). “I brought her back to the mountains, but after yet another control they told us that the disease had returned,” he recalls. At that point there was nothing more to do.
During the period of the Torricelli disease he remained next to him trying to keep hope high despite knowing that there were very little chances of being saved: “A doctor stopped me:” There is only 2% of healing possibilities for every year from the marrow transplantation “. I said nothing, neither to her nor to her family and even to our three children. Never. They will find out by reading this interview, “he says to the Corriere.
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