Carlo Nesti, the alarming announcement: “I’m very scared”

These are days of great concern for former RAI sportscaster Carlo Nesti, who revealed on his Facebook profile that he has contracted a very severe case of pneumonia that is frightening him.

“Dear friends, it’s not really a vacation, but a bad case of pneumonia, along with four other health issues. I’ve never experienced the start of the World Cup like this. Maybe because Italy’s absence has really knocked me for a loop? I really hope to relaunch this Nesti Channel soon, but I’m very scared. A hug to everyone who has been worried about me,” the journalist wrote on social media.

His Facebook profile was immediately flooded with messages of support from fans: thousands wrote to him wishing him a speedy recovery. After leaving Rai Sport in 2010, Nesti has remained very popular among soccer fans and contributes to several national sports publications, in addition to running a YouTube channel, “NestiChannel.”

In a recent interview with Fanpage, Carlo Nesti described himself as “a dying breed. I often feel down because I see the journalism landscape completely changed from when I started. But I’m holding on, and I feel original by drawing precisely on a journalistic tradition from the past—one that some would like to see left behind.”

“I see that many people have become nostalgic again. And I take advantage of that because I’m a witness to those eras when we won, and when I write about these topics, I find many more passionate readers. Deep down, people are nostalgic even for a certain kind of news, and the picture I’m capturing right now is that this sentiment is even more present today. And also with regard to a certain kind of soccer. Probably also because the national team hasn’t been in the World Cup for three tournaments and because we haven’t had a team win the Champions League in 16 years.”