The world is small and chance is sometimes incredible.
The attacker of Spanish footballer Pablo Mari, who was stabbed in the back while shopping in a Carrefour store near Milan, was disarmed by... a former footballer who was passing by.
And not just anyone: his name is Massimo Tarantino and, at the end of the 1980s, he played in Naples with Diego Maradona then in Milan with the Brazilian Ronaldo in the 1990s.
But I am not a hero,” Tarantino told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
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Today technical director of the Ferrara club, Massimo Tarantino is 51 years old.
He has spent his entire career in Italy, notably with AC Monza, the current club of Pablo Mari, at the end of the 1980s. With Bologna, he won the Intertoto Cup in 1998, the only line on his record. .
But he played with some great football glories, starting with Diego Maradona in 1990 in Naples.
The defender also played with Gianfranco Zola, still at Napoli, with Ronaldo at Inter Milan and Roberto Baggio at Bologna.
He was never selected for the national team.
Once stopped by Massimo Tarantino, the aggressor was arrested by the Carabinieri moments after the attack.
It killed a store employee, who died from his injuries, and injured four other people.
The authorities dismissed the trail of a terrorist attack, favoring the thesis of the act of an unbalanced person.
The days of Pablo Mari, who suffers from deep wounds in the back, are not dangerous.
He is to be operated on during the day on Friday.
