Rome, Aug. 20 (LaPresse) – Pietro Puzone, Maradona’s best friend at Napoli – champion of Italy with the Azzurri in 1987 – had been lying on a bench in Acerra for days. Environmental activist Alessandro Cannavacciuolo issued a social media appeal to social services to assist the former player. The post went viral within hours. “Turning away is a choice. And when it comes to Pietro, indifference is not neutrality: it is complicity. It is there for everyone to see. The images scream what many pretend not to see: the life of a man broken on a bench, drowned in social deprivation and abandonment. Allowing a person to waste away like this in the street is not only a human defeat, it is the failure of an entire community and its institutions. Pietro urgently needs care, dignity and a roof over his head, not a passive wait for his fate. An appeal to Social Services and the municipal authorities: act quickly.” Puzone was urgently hospitalized.
Football, Puzone, Maradona’s best friend, hospitalized: had been on a bench for days
Rome, Aug. 20 (LaPresse) – Pietro Puzone, Maradona’s best friend at Napoli – champion of Italy with the Azzurri in 1987 – had been lying on a bench in Acerra for days. Environmental activist Alessandro Cannavacciuolo issued a social media appeal to social services to assist the former player. The post went viral within hours. “Turning away is a choice. And when it comes to Pietro, indifference is not neutrality: it is complicity. It is there for everyone to see. The images scream what many pretend not to see: the life of a man broken on a bench, drowned in social deprivation and abandonment. Allowing a person to waste away like this in the street is not only a human defeat, it is the failure of an entire community and its institutions. Pietro urgently needs care, dignity and a roof over his head, not a passive wait for his fate. An appeal to Social Services and the municipal authorities: act quickly.” Puzone was urgently hospitalized.