⚽ The former Chelsea player and manager Gianluca Vialli has died aged 58 after a battle with cancer.
The Italian, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer five years ago, played for and managed the London club, scoring 40 goals in 88 games between 1996 and 1999 during his time on the pitch for Chelsea, becoming one of the clubs most beloved players.
Tributes have flooded in for Vialli, with former teammate Graeme Souness, who played alongside him at Sampdoria, visibly emotional as he remembered his friend on Sky Sports.
He said: “I can’t tell you how good a guy he was. Forget football, he was just a gorgeous soul. He was just a truly nice human being.
“He was just fabulous to be around. He was such a fun-loving guy, full of mischief, wonderful footballer and a warm human being.
“People will say things about his magnificent football ability, and correctly so, but above all that what a human being. My condolence go to his family – the kids were blessed to have a dad like that, his wife was blessed to be married to a man like that.”
His former club Sampdoria described him as “better than Pele” in an emotional tribute, saying: “You gave us so much, we gave you so much: yes, it was love, reciprocal, infinite. A love that will not die today with you. We will continue to love and adore you.”
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The Mind Boggling Hypocrisy of The West
These days, multiple warning signs of potential genocide against the Tigray people of Ethiopia are present, no Russian military operation in the invasion of Ukraine goes by without a torrent of denunciations from Western governments and the corporate media in the most strident of terms, portraying Putin as the new Hitler and the Russian military as a modern version of the hordes of Genghis Khan. But when a US ally and major supplier of oil to the West aids the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia to massacre Tigrayan Christians, puts Ethiopian migrants in concentrations camps in Saudi Arabia, carries out a barbaric massacre in Yemen, Western governments do not make even the mildest protest.
Neither the US nor the British government have issued any statement on the execution of 81 prisoners Saturday in Saudi Arabia, which was widely condemned by human rights and Saudi exile groups. Even when the issue was raised Monday at the regular State Department press briefing, spokesman Ned Price would say nothing more than “we are continuing to raise CONCERNS about fair trial guarantees,” although he said he “can’t speak to the timing of that, but we have raised these CONCERNS”
In plain English, this means that the administration has said nothing about the executions to the Saudi monarchy and its murderous ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who, together with his brothers, is allowed to make £2.7bn offer for London’s Chelsea Football Club. Wow!
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