Babelman
2:08 Fri Jan 6
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RIP,. Not West Ham, but liked him, way to soon.
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Side of Ham
1:58 Fri Jan 6
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Bit gutted to hear this and he wasn't even West Ham but he was a big part of me watching football Italia on Channel 4......Lovely person, great footballer.....taken far to soon.
RIP Gianluca VIALLI
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nerd
1:39 Fri Jan 6
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You are correct Aalborg, sampdoria with him my fav foreign team and so cool at the time. Rip
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happygilmore
1:39 Fri Jan 6
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I liked him.
RIP Gianluca
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Aalborg Hammer
1:35 Fri Jan 6
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Back in the mists of time IIRC we played in a friendly tournament at the old library-the Makita tools Tournament("they fix anything-even this tournament " so said the banner)
It was Arsenal,Sampdoria ,us and Panathinikos.
The final was Arsenal v Sampdoria and we were all cheering Sampdoria- Vialli scored a signature overhead kick and came to our end to celebrate with the cup...could be wrong but I seem to remember it that way!
RIP Gianluca
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El Scorchio
1:34 Fri Jan 6
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Shit. That's a shock. Didn't know he was sick.
Seemed like a really good bloke. Very sad. 58 no age these days
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cholo
1:19 Fri Jan 6
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Pancreatic cancer took my uncle last year, he'd had it for about 11 months and was doing well until they told him the treatment was no longer working, a few weeks later he was dead.
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Nagel
1:05 Fri Jan 6
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As others have said, he seemed a decent fella. Unusual for a player of that quality that he was a very rich kid, grew up in a 60-room castle.
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aldgate
1:05 Fri Jan 6
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Really sad news - used to love watching him play in that Sampdoria team when Football Italia started. Met him briefly about ten years ago outside a new Italian restaurant that had opened in the Corinthia in London. Got chatting while having a fag outside - as expected he was a really chilled affable bloke. Said he always thought West Ham was a "proper club with proper fans" Liked him even more for that. RIP Gianlucca
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:04 Fri Jan 6
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Pentonville 11:56 Fri Jan 6
'Anyone had any experience of this on here, family or otherwise?'
Yes, mate. It took my Mum. Alfie's story is a happy exception. If you get diagnosed with it, you are a goner. About a 1-2% survival rate beyond a year.
RIP Gian-Luca - even as a Chelsea player, you were quite difficult to hate.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
1:01 Fri Jan 6
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Awful news.
Seemed an incredibly nice, likeable bloke.
RIP Luca
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Jaan Kenbrovin
12:59 Fri Jan 6
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Quality player and seemed like a genuinely decent fella. Was always interesting to listen to.
Sad to see him go.
RIP Gianluca Vialli.
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marty feldman
12:58 Fri Jan 6
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Terrible shame great player . and an even nicer man RIP Gianluca .
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zico
12:56 Fri Jan 6
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Really saddened by this. Read a couple of years ago that he had been ill but had been given the all clear, and then sadly read a few months back the bastard disease had returned. Always seemed a nice bloke and a great player RIP.
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the coming of gary
12:43 Fri Jan 6
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Classy bloke ; Seemed effortlessly cool in his V - Necked jumper
RIP Gianluca
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Northern Sold
12:40 Fri Jan 6
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News came out on TS... they got Scott Minto on there he was in absolute bits... could hardly string a sentence together...
I always looked on GV as the less chaotic version of Di Canio... both brilliant to watch...
Was one smooth muvver as well...
Rest easy
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Crassus
12:40 Fri Jan 6
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madeeasy 12:35 Fri Jan 6
Thanks for that mate, classy statement for a classy player and man
RIP Luca
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twoleftfeet
12:38 Fri Jan 6
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That is very sad news, one of those players who I would loved to have seen in claret and blue.
Seemed like a really decent bloke.
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RBshorty
12:38 Fri Jan 6
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Came across as a good person and a class act.
RIP Gianlucca.
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Come On You Irons
12:35 Fri Jan 6
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Very sad news. 58 is no age.
He seemed like a really decent guy. RIP.
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madeeasy
12:35 Fri Jan 6
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A beautiful statement on the Sampdoria website reads:
"We've come a long way together, growing up and searching, winning and dreaming. You've arrived little boy, we salute you man. We will remember you as a boy and a relentless centre-forward, because heroes are all young and beautiful and you, since that summer of 1984, have been our hero. Strong and beautiful, with that 9 printed on the back and the Italian flag sewn on the heart. Strongest leader of Sampdoria, paired up front with your 'twin' Bobby Gol (Roberto Mancini). In three words: one of us.
"A perception that remained so after having bid farewell to Genoa and the south [of Italy] in tears. That's right: while raising trophies around Europe with different colours, tracksuits and clothes, Gianluca Vialli was a Sampdorian and the Sampdorians were with Gianluca Vialli. With you, in victory and in defeat, in health and in sickness. In Bern as in Gothenburg, in Marassi on 19 May 1991 as in Wembley a year and a day later. Or like again at Wembley but in July 2021: we were all there in that hug, in that weeping we will never forget.
"We won't forget your 141 goals, your overhead kicks, your cashmere shirts, your earring, your platinum blonde hair, your Ultras bomber jacket. You gave us so much, we gave you so much: yes, it was love, reciprocal, infinite. A love that will not die today with you. We will continue to love and adore you."
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