The Napoli coach explained what he is suffering from and asked the youngsters to enjoy life
Coach and former player Gennaro Gatusso confessed that he suffers from an incurable and complicated illness, as he revealed a few hours ago. The also selected Italian, who came to play rugby in addition to football, gave a message to the young people in relation to what he has experienced.
And it is that he has been suffering from myasthenia for 10 years, a strange and incurable disease in which the patient loses control of some part of his muscles, with various intensities.
In the particular case of the now Naples coach, Gattuso suffers only in the eye area, so there are times when he has spent months without being able to see well.
“I have myasthenia, I’ve been suffering from it for ten years, it’s the third time it’s hit me. This time it was strong,” he explained.
“I want to say something to the guys who don’t look pretty in the mirror. Life is beautiful and you have to face it without hiding. I know my players suffered seeing me like that. I read that I was dead, that I have a month to live … Don’t worry, I’m not dying. I’m alive, “said the DT.
On his worst moments, “everything will happen, the eye will be fixed. I see double, it’s hard to stand up, just crazy like I can get it.” “I don’t like living moments like that, 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 go, I want it to be where I spent it all. my existence: in the countryside, ”he narrated.
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