Lecce, Mancosu: “I had a tumor surgery, I was afraid”

It was not a banal appendix. Lecce captain Marco Mancosu missed four games in April after undergoing surgery. Last weekend he returned to the field against Cittadella to guide his team towards the promotion goal. Today with a post on Instagram he clarified: “I had an operation on March 26. Cancer. I saw a world I never thought I knew, I saw the terror in the eyes of the people I love, I saw the terror and the concern of my wife who for the same reason lost her father this summer, I was afraid of not being able to raise my daughter, I took exams in the best Italian centers alongside people who today I don’t even know if they are alive, managed to overcome his illness “.

Courage

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A long post to announce the disease. The doctors had told him that his season was over. Mancosu did not give up: “In that waiting room there are no social reasons, it does not matter if you are a lawyer, a footballer, a president or a normal employee, there we are all the same, all struggling with something we cannot control . The doctors told me that my season was over and that I had to think about next year, after two weeks I was on the field running. After a month I would have to go back to Milan to find out if I should have chemo or not, I won’t be there. I still went because I want to do the thing I love most in the world, play football, then we’ll see at the end of the season. I’ve already won. Life may not always be fair because I don’t think neither I nor anyone else in this world you deserve to have a tumor but I also think that courage must never be lacking, the courage to face any kind of adversity that life puts before us, the courage to take responsibility, the courage to show yourself weak and be stronger than you think “.

Excuses

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The Lecce captain decided to turn on a light on his situation to apologize to all those to whom he had had to lie by hiding the disease: “This for me means being a MAN and sincerely, believe me, of all the mistakes I make, of a high penalty or a mistake in front of the goalkeeper, I don’t give a damn about these things … because they are things that only happen to those who take the responsibility to do, to have courage, to try, to make mistakes and try again. to talk about it only now because before I did not feel ready, I needed to live it in privacy with the people I love and for this I want to apologize to those I lied to hide the real reason for my problem. day I am even more proud of myself and of those next to me “. At the end of the championship there are two days left, Corini’s men want the A. Led by captain Mancosu.