Mauro Bellugi received the Serie A title with Inter Milan in 1971.© Twitter
Former Italy and Inter Milan defender Mauro Bellugi died on Saturday aged 71, months after each his legs have been amputated following issues with coronavirus. “Right now he leaves us, an awesome man, an awesome footballer, a real ‘Interista’. Relaxation in peace Mauro Bellugi,” Inter Milan wrote on Twitter after Bellugi handed away in Milan.
Medical doctors have been pressured to hold out the double amputation in November when a pre-existing situation worsened after the previous defender was hospitalised following Covid-19.
“Precisely one 12 months after the primary case of Covid in Italy, Mauro Bellugi leaves us,” the president of the Lombardy area Attilio Fontana wrote Saturday on Fb.
“Scarred by the virus, the nationwide and Inter participant tried to react to an advanced well being scenario along with his normal power and irony. A prayer and a thought for his family members.”
Bellugi received the Serie A title with Inter in 1971, and likewise performed for Italy within the World Cups of 1974 and 1978.
“They took off my leg with which I scored in opposition to Borussia Moenchengladbach,” mentioned Bellugi on the time of the amputation, talking a few purpose he scored for Inter within the second spherical of the European Cup in November 1971.
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“I’ll put on prostheses like these of (Oscar) Pistorius.”
Bellugi, who additionally performed for Bologna and Napoli through the Sixties and Seventies, went on to turn into a soccer pundit.
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