The simple, obvious but not exaggerated equation: Gigi Marulla represents for the city burns what Diego Armando Maradona for that of Naples. The “Tamburino di Stilo”, on the pitch, was the “guardian” of the wolf. A mission – his – accomplished between joys and pains, such as the 1991 salvation goal in Pescara, against Salernitana, and the relegation of Padua of six years later. The memory of the nine is indelible in the city even ten years after its premature death. It will be so forever because his legend has also reached the last generations through the stories of dad and grandparents. And then to make the aura unchanged there are commemorative evening like the one lived last night in the stadium that today bears its name. “I wave proudly our flag – ten years without Gigi Marulla”, an event organized by the association “La Terra di Piero” and Ugo Napolitano and which the champion’s family obviously participated, with his son Kevin in his head. For the tribute to the captain there were many former rossoblù present.
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