Italy Mourns Gigi Riva, Football Legend and 'National Monument'

par This Is Beirut, 23/01 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Italy mourns the death of one of the greatest footballers in its history, Gigi Riva, who died on Monday at the age of 79. Luigi (known to all as Gigi) Riva suffered a heart attack at home on Sunday and was in the hospital since then in Cagliari, the town where he spent almost his entire playing career, between 1963 and 1977. "A true national ...