“When I got here Marulla was the king Today I went to see him”

He had said this in our interview herea few years ago, he repeated it in the post-game conference. For Cristiano Lucarelli, not having been able to attend the funeral of Gigi Marulla it will be an eternal regret. “I went to the cemetery this morning to see him,” he said in the press room at the end of Cosenza-Ternana“. He was accompanied by Wolves team manager Kevin and by Richard Vanigli, his deputy and old rossoblù stopper. “I will repeat this gesture every time I come to Cosenza – he added -. I was sorry not to be able to attend his funeral, I was abroad for work: I will always have this regret ». The fu 99 did not spare words to honey for what was his teammate in the championship that launched the center forward from Livorno on the national football scene.

Lucarelli remembers Gigi Marulla

«Gigi Marulla for me was a teacher of life – continues Lucarelli -. In that championship that I lived here, his closeness had enormous significance for me ». Cristiano then recounted his first approach with Gigi in the summer of 1995, when the Tuscan striker arrived on loan from Perugia within the negotiation that brought Marco Negri to Umbria: “When I arrived in Cosenza – he said – he was the king and me a little boy: despite this, he has always worked hard to make me emerge “

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