Matteo Materazzi is sick, he has Sla: his wife opens a fundraiser

Drama in the Materazzi house. Matteo, brother of Marco and son of Beppe – former coach of Bari, Lazio, Piacenza, Brescia, Padua and other clubs – is fighting against Sla. The news was made to the news was his wife Maura, who told the story of Matteo on the occasion of the launch of the Open fundraising to support treatments on GOFOUNDME. In the first hour about 25 thousand euros were collected from more than 120 donors, anonymous and non -anonymous.

the story

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This is the reconstruction of his wife: “I am Maura, Matteo’s wife a dad of two splendid 16 and 19 -year -old boys. Matteo is 49 years old and in September 2024 he was diagnosed with a rare SLA mutation. His story begins in March 2024, when thinking he has a back problem he begins to limp by dragging his left foot a little. In a short time he loses a lot of weight and is increasingly difficult to walk. exams, from which nothing is nothing “. Matteo has lost the use of the legs: “In August he begins to fall frequently, his walk becomes robotic, every step is an immense effort, so we manage to obtain an appointment in the Nemo center of Rome with the Proff. Sabatelli. On September 4th we receive the bitter sentence. In a few months Matthew, to be precise at the end of December, ends up in a wheelchair by quickly losing the use of the legs. Not even the arms. illness is advancing very quickly and has recently taken the respiratory part too. “

fundraising

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He continued his wife: “The objective to create a personalized ASO therapy for Matteo’s mutation (TDP-43). He has already worked on some rare Sla mutations, such as Sod1 and Fus, only that Matteo’s mutation has an extra difficulty: the protein that accumulates in its neuronal cells and that intoxic them, making them die, is also functional to the cell itself. Matteo is even more difficult. We have contacted Columbia University in New York and Dr. Shneider, a pioneer of this therapy, but to create ASO suitable for Matteo and all those who have the same mutation in the same variant serve 1 and a half million dollars, who obviously do not have. Among the donors, at the moment, Gaia Lucariello – wife of Simone Inzaghi -, the agent Edoardo Crnjar and Arianna Rapaccioni, wife of Sinisa Mihajlovic.