Matteo Materazzi unveils Marco’s project to help him against ALS

Matteo Materazzi gave La Repubblica his first interview since the battle he is fighting against ALS was made public: “I have to be helped to go to the bathroom, take a shower, get into the car. To eat they have to feed me, my hands still move, but I can’t pull my arm up. This disease is infamous because it takes something away from you day after day”.

“With my disease it is forbidden to hope, but I want to live. I think of those who cannot afford the expenses to make their daily life sustainable” added the brother of the’former Inter defender.

On his own relationship with his brother Marco: “We fought over trifles, now we try to make up for lost time. He wants to organize a charity match at the’Olimpico between the Azzurri of 2006 and the’All Star of foreigners of the past”.

Closing on fundraising: “The hope is to find a cure for the mutation that has affected me as well as so many other people, 300 in Sardinia alone. Maybe I won’t be saved, but others will. We are moving on two tracks, together with a family from Calabria and one from Puglia”.