Gattuso: "There Are People with My Own Disease Stays 4-5 Months in Bed"

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Gennaro Gattuso, 48, is battling an autoimmune disease. He has been taking cortisone for 15 years. “Someone else in my situation would have weighed 200 kilos,” says Gattuso.

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GENNARO GATTUSO, former coach of Hajduk and current coach of Lazio, spoke openly at the Festival dello Sport in Trento about the health problem he has been living with for years.

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I have stopped playing because I have taken an autoimmune disease, myasthenia eye. I still had it to play. I have been using cortisone for 15 years, because I have the diplopia, which prevents me from seeing correctly. To speak is Gennaro Gattuso, coach of Lazio who intervened at the event "Don't ever give up" at the Sports Festival of [...] The article "For 15 years I have been using cortisone, there are people with my own disease that is 4-5 m…

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World champion in 2006, Gennaro Gattuso, current Lazio technician, opened his heart about the difficulties he faces in dealing with an autoimmune disease, which he acquired 15 years ago. The former meia suffers with Miasthenia Gravis Ocular, which causes weakness or muscle discontrol in the eye region and because of this he said he retired and lives with medication treatment until the present day. — I have taken cortisone for 15 years, because, …

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Gennaro Gattuso, 2006 World Cup champion and current coach of Lazio, who has also coached OFI, spoke openly about the difficulties of dealing with an autoimmune disease that he contracted 15 years ago.

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Gennaro Gattuso, a former Italy international and current Lazio coach, has revealed that he has been struggling with an autoimmune disease for about 15 years. Iceland international Albert Guðmundsson recently joined Lazio. Gattuso, who is 48, stopped playing professional football in 2013 and says the illness played a major role in that decision. "I have been taking cortisone for 15 years," Gattuso said at the Festival dello Sport in Trento.