Farewell to Carlo Mazzone, the moving farewell of Rome and Ascoli

Grief from Rome, Ascoli and beyond over the passing of Carlo Mazzone

There are numerous tributes and messages of grief and emotion for the passing this Saturday of Carlo Mazzone, who passed away at the age of 86.

First among them are the two clubs that most ‘Sor Carletto’ had in his heart, Roma and Ascoli. “Ciao Mister, we will always love you immensely,” reads the channels of the Giallorossi club, for whom Mazzone was a youth player and in the first team in the 1950s, before his three years on the bench from 1993 to 1996. The doyen of Italian coaches, he was the first coach of the club management led by Franco Sensi and the one who definitively launched Francesco Totti, who always called him a second father. An immense pain for our club and for the world of soccer in general.”

“Hello Carletto, hello great Man! Costantino will welcome you with open arms!” writes Ascoli calcio, referring to historic president Costantino Rozzi who first believed in Mazzone as coach, giving him the keys to the first team from 1968 to 1975 (double promotion from C to A) and then again from 1981 to 1984.

Messages of condolence then came from all his former clubs: from Fiorentina to Catanzaro, from Bologna to Lecce, from Pescara to Cagliari, from Napoli to Perugia, from Brescia to Livorno. Lazio’s proud rivals also saluted the figure of ‘Sor Carletto’: “He leaves us a historical figure of our soccer, an exemplary professional who always interpreted with passion and dedication his being first a player and then a coach, with his unique and special way of being on the bench,” reads the official website of the biancocelesti.