Sinisa Mihajlovic died aged 53 from leukemia
Sinisa Mihajlovic died aged 53 from leukemia
The funeral parlor will be open at the Campidoglio from 10 to 18 tomorrow. And it will be a sad Sunday for the fans, the athletes who will go before the coffin of Sinisa Mihajlovic to pay homage to him. On Monday, December 19, at 11:30 am, the funeral will be celebrated in the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, in Rome.
The news of his death was a hard blow for everyone: the announcement made by the family on Friday afternoon is a pang in the heart, something that takes your breath away and leaves you feeling empty. The words of his wife Arianna Rapaccioni and the children bring tears to his eyes: anyone who has experienced such intense pain, anyone who has lost someone so dear, knows what that means. It can’t be explained, it shouldn’t be.
At the age of 53, despite a transplant and treatment, the former player and coach no longer had the weapons to withstand the impact of the severe form of acute myeloid leukemia that had affected him in 2019. In the last period he had confessed: “If that doesn’t work either, it’s over.”
Mihajlovic already knew what he would find, he lived the long phase of the disease with pride and composure, without fear of showing his own fragility, which proved to be stronger than any therapy administered.
For three years he gave himself strength, clung to life, love, passion for football, dedication to his work, but the disease returned more devastating than ever. He surprised Zeman, who was presenting a book, when he appeared in the library room: he patted him on the back and left him dumbfounded, he did not expect the player, the “colleague”, the man to accompany him. “I wasn’t so bad, come on”, he told him. It was the last public appearance, that breath of life that one breathes before it all ends. The rest remains in the memory and emotions of the people who were by his side on the hardest day.
“When you are no longer part of me, I will cut many little stars from your memory, so the sky will be so beautiful that the whole world will fall in love with the night”🇧🇷 It’s the touching dedication that the wife shared on Instagram. “Hello dad, my great and immense love. Promise me you’ll let me know, I still need you a lot”, wrote one of the daughters, Virginia.
The other, Viktorija, chose a poem from the ‘Xenia’ collection by Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugenio Montale, to say goodbye to her father: “I went down, taking your arm, at least a million steps and now that you’re not there, each step is empty. Still, our long journey was short. Mine still lasts, and I no longer need connections, reservations , the traps, the mockery of those who believe that reality is what you see. I went down a million stairs taking your arm, not because with four eyes maybe you can see more. I went down with you because I knew that the two of us were the only real students , though so boring, we were yours”🇧🇷
Source: Fan Page IT
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