Bruno Pizzul, the preeminent Italian sports journalist, recalled Gianluca Vialli's statement on Rai2 during an interview "If we consider the current state of Italian football, with its problems - not so much of a technical nature, but rather of a moral and managerial nature - it is hard to believe that Vialli, with his great personality and the example he left us, has the ability to inspire us to change. Surely, the goal we all share is to improve, as Gianluca has done". According to Pizzul, "the great testament of affection that Gianluca Vialli received, not only in Italy but also in England and around the world, was characterized by the fact that gradually there was less and less discussion of his sporting prowess and more and more discussion of his great stature as a man".
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