Napoli coach Genaro Gattuso took advantage of the end of the year to send a positive message, while talking about the disease he suffers in one eye and for which he appeared with a patch in the last games.
“I want to say something to the children who don’t look good in the mirror: Life is beautiful and you have to face it without hiding. I know that my players have suffered seeing me like this. I read that I died and that I have another month to go. lived. I’m not dying. I’m alive. “
The former Italian footballer suffers from a disease called myasthenia gravis, and at the press conference he appeared without a patch, with his affected eye partially closed.
“I have myasthenia, I have suffered from it for ten years, this is the third time it has hit me. This time it was strong, but everything will pass, the eye will repair itself. I see double, it’s hard to stay, just crazy like me can get it.
“I don’t like living such moments, but I accept it because there are worse things in life. I do what I like, this is my life and if I have to decide how to leave, I want it to be where I am. spent his entire existence: in the country, “he added.