Celeste Pin, the memory of Malusci: “always sincere and cheerful”

Alberto Malusci’s thoughts these days surrender to the wind of memory. It is a wind that blows now with the most impetus and now she subsides, but always there remains there, crouched in the head and then grasped it by surprise by breaking the daily routine. Malusci knows that that wind friend follows a single trace, that of pain, and has a single direction, the one that brings him back to the memory of Celeste Pin. “Heavenly he loved me, it was my Fiorentina captain, he taught me a lot. We had seen each other in June in a Camp for children of the football school, here in Florence, we had laughed and joked for the whole week. We talked about a project to be done together (the voice of Malusci gets crack) … it is difficult to give itself a reason for what happened, never and then I would never have imagined …”.

Have you tried to look for her, a reason that explains Pin’s extreme gesture?

“I suffer even to help me, a gesture like this. The truth is that none of us can say with absolute certainty of knowing a friend to the end, nobody can understand the shadows with which the others coexist. Since heaven he left I have tried to reconstruct every moment lived with him, but I have not been able to grasp anything, not a signal, nothing. This is the thing that reproaches me: not having caught the effort of living in”.

Did you know that, as the ex -wife told, for years Pin had used drugs to manage depression?

“No, I didn’t know. I read it and I am amazed. If it is true that the behavior of a person is the mirror of his soul, then I remember only a heavenly jovial, cheerful, of good humor”.

The ex -wife, Elena Fabbri, does not believe in the hypothesis of suicide; The lawyer who assists her, Mattia Alfani, claims that “Celeste would never have exposed the children to such a violent trauma”. What do you think?

“I don’t know what to think, really so sad … The ex -wife has all the reasons to look for some truth”.

When did you and pin meet?

“At the end of the 80s, when I was aggregated to Fiorentina’s first team. I was seventeen, in October 1989 I made his debut in Serie A. I lived a dream. Heaven was a veteran, he immediately took me under his wing. I free, he stopper. I looked at him, I tried to learn. He had a sense of the phenomenal anti -broadcast, he first read the intentions of the opponent’s center forward.

Have you ever seen him angry?

“Only once, at the interval of the final first leg of the UEFA Cup, in Turin, against Juventus. He was furious, pissed like it had happened. He had it with the referee, with Casiraghi with whom he had duel on the pitch, he complained that the referee did not protect us. Yes, that was the game in which he was going to say in front of the reporters: ‘Juve is a team of thieves’. been laid, exemplary in behavior, never outside the lines “.

“A gentleman, with his Venetian cantilena, occasionally came out with an expression in dialect that made us laugh. He was serious, posed, authoritative when he spoke. It was Lazaroni who promoted him captain”.

How do you want to remember your friend?

“I have two very clear moments in my head. The first is when I stopped playing. He called me and told me that in my career I had collected less than what I deserved, it was sincere, as it has always been. It is the gift of Celeste that I keep in my heart. And then I remember a trip a few years ago, with the team of the old Florentine glories. We were in Avellino, at the Memorial Adriano Lombardi. Chamber, we slept in the same room.