Mancini dedicates the goal to Mattia Giani, the 26-year-old footballer who died due to an illness

The desire to score, the joy of scoring and then the thought of Gianluca Mancini to Mattia Giani, a 26-year-old footballer who passed away over the weekend due to illness. The central defender of Rome he found the back of the net again in the quarter-finals against Milan in Europe League. An important goal both for the match and for himself, who in recent days sent his message to the deceased born in 1998. A goal with a special dedication to Mattia, complete with a t-shirt worn during the warm-up and shown during the celebration.

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The words after the match

«I tried to make a gesture for the family and for Mattia. His father came here to the Olimpico with him many times. They have been difficult days and I am very emotional.” Gianluca Mancini said this in tears after the Roma-Milan match on Sky Sport, commenting on his celebration with the shirt for Giani, the Castelfiorentino footballer who passed away due to a heart attack. «His family is suffering and I wanted to celebrate with this shirt to give them strength. The world fell on her, but I’m sure she will get back up”, he added. Then commenting on the passage of the round he concluded: «What matters is the collective, there were ten of us left and we knew how to suffer. It makes us proud to be in the semi-final in a European competition for the third consecutive year.”

Who was Mattia Giani

Sunday 14 April, during a match Excellence Tuscan between Castelfiorentino United and Lanciotto Campi, Mattia Giani passes out due to cardiac arrest. The paramedics immediately entered the field, but there was nothing they could do. As the father reports, in fact, there was no one able to use the defibrillator. Mattia Giani was the brother of Mancini’s sister’s boyfriend, who immediately after the news of her passing dedicated a long message to him on social media.