Milan, August 6 (LaPresse) – “I need help to go to the bathroom, take a shower, get into the car. I need to be fed, I can still move my hands, but I can't lift my arm. This disease is terrible because it takes something away from you day after day.” This is how Matteo Materazzi begins a long interview with Repubblica, in which he talks about the illness that has struck him. Materazzi is 49 years old, a sports agent and former soccer player. His family has close ties to soccer: his brother Marco is a 2006 World Cup champion, and his father Beppe was a long-time coach in Serie A. He speaks from Porto Taverna, Sardinia. "It was our meeting place. It also connects me to my mother, who was from Cagliari,“ he said. He lost his mother at the age of 13. ”Breast cancer. I wasn't aware of it, no one told me she could die. That's also why I chose to tell my sons, Geremia and Gianfilippo, everything right away, so they can process it,“ he revealed. ”With my illness, it's forbidden to hope, but I want to live. I think about those who can't afford the expenses to make their daily lives sustainable,“ he said. On his difficult relationship with his brother Marco, world champion in 2006, he said: ”We fought over silly things, now we're trying to make up for lost time. He wants to organize a charity match at the Olimpico between the 2006 Azzurri and the All Star team of foreign players from the past."
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