Matteo Materazzi unveils brother Marco’s project to help him in the fight 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”.