Gianluca Vialli had married Cathryn in London in great secrecy: she is an interior decorator, they have two daughters Olivia and Sofia. The champion’s family still lives in Cremona where he grew up
I immediately set myself long-term goals: not to die before my parents and to lead my daughters down the aisle.
He failed there, two of the few goals that Gianluca Vialli he was wrong in a lifetime: and today that it is hard to resign that it really ended like this, there are only tears.
In London, where it is his wife Catherine White Cooper with daughters Olivia and Sophia who will get married, perhaps, one day, certainly thinking about the father where the funeral will be held privately.
Just as in Cremona, where the parents remain, mother Maria Teresa, 87 years oldwho everyone in the city knows as Marioli and who, before Christmas, had flown to London to wish her Gianluca a happy birthday, giving us all a sense of the tragedy of the moment, and then father Gianfranco, 92 (entrepreneur who built prefabs with his CasaItalia), e the four brothersall older than Luca: Mila, Nino, Marco and Maffo (a name of a Habsburg ancestor, on the other hand, the origins of the family can be found in Cles, in Trentino, where many Cremona citizens have second homes).
Gianluca had managed to keep everything togetherthe profile of a successful footballer and one of the first citizens of the world (player, and then coach at Chelsea, in London who knows his future wife, whom he married in 2003, who chooses to live and die; he had told Aldo Cazzullo a mix of discipline and freedom: you pay taxes, you queue, you stop at the pedestrian crossing), firm roots in Cremonawhere the family lives in the center and where he was born into football, throwing his first balls on the field of Cristo Re, the oratory of the Po Village, then with the Pizzighettone and Cremonese shirt, the bush of curls, the always polite manners of provincial boy.
His is a wealthy family – he owns a castle in Grumello Cremonese, Villa Affaitati, where Luca stayed when he returned to Italy -, very united and very private.
A trait that also characterized the family then formed with his wife Cathrynmarried in secret on August 26, 2003 then giving the news with a press release after the wedding has already taken place (with a party in Ashby Castle in Northampton), conquered it seems after a courtship that lasted many months, and with which he divided twenty years very far from social media.
His wife Catherine
Gianluca said that Cathryn got angry when she was defined as a former model, because the experience in fashion had been a quick youthful parenthesis, she wanted to be recognized for her job, in which she was successful, i.e. theinterior decorator.
Of South African origins, she and Gianluca often went to South Africa to spend the Christmas holidays with her family.
Daughters Olivia and Sofia are always lived protected from media attention, the stories that their father has told in recent years remain about them and for them, when he told in 2020 the times who helped me draw my eyebrows, I also asked my wife what tricks to use. We laughed, you have to laugh, you need to find the funny side and the testament-lesson she left in the interview with Alessandro Cattelan: I am convinced that our children follow our example more than our words. I feel I have less time to be a good father and be an example to them. My every behavior leads me to think like this. In this sense I try to be a positive example: I try to teach them that happiness depends on the perspective from which you look at life, that you don’t have to put on airs, listen more and talk less. Laugh often, help others. This is the secret of happiness.
January 6, 2023 (change January 6, 2023 | 2:14 pm)
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