Giovanni Custodero, the 27-year-old goalkeeper of Pezze di Greco, a hamlet of Fasano (Brindisi), suffering from bone sarcoma, died this morning. A few days ago he announced on Facebook that he wanted to resort to deep sedation, to ease the pain. The footballer had played on the Fasano 5-a-side football team in the C2 championship.
The disease had been diagnosed in 2017 and he had fought tenaciously with a smile against it, publishing his emotions and treatments on social networks, and promoting many charity initiatives. He also had had a leg amputated. A few days ago the post that had aroused emotion: "I decided to spend the holidays away from social networks but next to the most important people. However, now that the holidays are over, and with them also the last grain of strength that I was left with it, I decided that I cannot continue to make physical pain and suffering prevail over what fate has in store for me. " Finally the announcement: "from tomorrow I will be sedated and I will be able to relieve my malaise".