The wife of Napoli's ex-porter: My husband died of AIDS, was abandoned by all

Baloney. He just got off the train. Bologna-Rome, en route, to respond to a job request. And to think that she, Raffaella Del Rosario, 53, featured, dancers, designers, models and in the late 1980s, appeared on important soccer TV shows.

It was a family character, a pretty face not just for football lovers. But above all, it was Giuliano Giuliani's wife, the goalkeeper who had played and won on Maradona's Naples. It was 1988, when Naples chose him as Garella's replacement.

It's the “Pibe de oro” that wants to win in Italy and Europe, but also Naples of vices, cocaine, champagne rivers, and high-class red - light parties. Giuliani is immediately protagonist at winning the U Cup EFA. In the second year, the team led by Alberto Bigon wins the title in the series A, the second in the Nazi history, and the goalkeeper is among the symbols of a Naples success that has been titled to play in the League Champions.

He never played it because in the summer of 1990, the club changes and buys from Milan, Giovanni Galli and Giuliani closes the doors of Naples, Europe, and Champions League. I close my career after three years at Udine. Travels, clothing, a beautiful life, then heavy hits. Raffaella is fond of memories of moments of happiness when she touched the sky with a finger.

When Giuliano made me feel good” Raffaella also wants to relate the dramatic moments that have remained permanently rooted in her memories.

Although many years have passed, she keeps remembering that moment. Would you like to ask about Giuliano? A reserved man who would by no means give the impression of a man who led a loose life”.

Anyway, after just three years of marriage, he confessed to me that he had AIDS. That's when I thought I was gonna die. We had a daughter, and I couldn't perceive how it could have happened. That's why life ended very quickly, but also as soon as it was forgotten and I didn't think it was right. As if there had never been”

Born in Rome but raised in Arezzo, Giulian of the 1958 birthday, she closed with football in 1993 after celebrating Udine's rescue in Seria A, after the Blogna-Brescia match.

Bilogna, the town where the doorkeeper moved to live with his family for the last three years of his unfortunate existence, conditioned by episodes that have little to do with football.

Since 1992, a newspaper appeared with the shocking title “Giuliani has AIDS”. The football world was terrorized, even though football player was still in operation. He neither confirms nor denies. But it disappears until November 14th 1996, when press agencies announced his death at the “hospital. Sant Orsola” of Bologna, in the infectious disease department.

Giuliano died when he was only 38 years old” recalls Raffaella, leaving behind a girl, Gesica, now 28. We met at a party in 1987 and it was love at first sight. The football player and television host, Periscope broadcast.

Then the marriage that lasted from 88 to 91. Until he confessed to me about the disease. He was sader than usual. He looked at me but he wouldn't talk to me. Then he stopped telling me that he had done tests and that he had learned from the answer that he had been affected by the HIV virus and that there was no escape”.

There was a knife in the chest. I couldn't talk. But inside I asked: Why me? But how could that happen, the one who had never been drugged, who was an athlete, who didn't love nightlife? He humbly told me that he had betrayed me once. For once. A worthless story, November 7, 1989, at the wedding of Maradona in Buenos Aires. I didn't go because I was just born”

A very talked about wedding, which was reported by all the chronics of the day, such as that one Naples of the day, outside the field - cocaine, parties, orgies, luxury, even involvement with Camorran.

For me there were six months of hell because I had to undergo various tests. I was going crazy. Fortunately, I had not been infected, but I could no longer be with a man who had betrayed me. So I broke up. But I stood as the only support of a life that was ending. And when I learned it was really bad, at the hospital, I rushed to him. Unfortunately, I didn't even have time to understand or talk to doctors”.

That night, Giuliano died of a polymonary disease caused by the advanced state of the disease. None of the old soccer friends got alive, not even in later years. Nobody remembered him. I asked Maradona and President Ferlano to organize a match to remember, but they didn't even respond to”.

It's like Giuliano never existed. That's the truth and my disappointment with the football world. Sometimes I feel like I live in a science fiction movie. What about today? Now I am single, with three children, two of whom live with me in a rented house in Bilogna. After Gesica I had Andrea from a relationship with a friend, and later from my second husband, Mary Vittoria, who is now 18. I'm also the grandmother of a remaining Alessa, eight. I don't have that good time. I just need to get a job, just like old times. After all, I believe I'm still a lovely woman, eager to work”. /Periscopi/