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Vicar with all heart: the Friulian goalkeeper of Empoli welcomes a mother and a child who fled from Ukraine to his home in Udine

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Vicar with all heart: the Friulian goalkeeper of Empoli welcomes a mother and a child who fled from Ukraine to his home in Udine

Guglielmo Vicario, 25, with the Ukrainian child he is hosting in his home in Udine and, on the right, with the Empoli shirt

UDINE. Guglielmo Vicario makes people talk about himself – in a positive way – even off the pitch. The Udinese goalkeeper, engaged in Serie A with Empoli, opened the doors of his house in Planis, in Udine, to host two Ukrainian war refugees.

I am a 34-year-old mother and 11-year-old son who arrived in Friuli a few days ago from Dnipro. They were welcomed by Guglielmo himself, who came to town from Tuscany, and his parents, father Michele and mother Monica.

The meeting was made possible thanks also to the help of a family relative, who speaks Russian and was thus able to communicate with the guests, who speak neither Italian nor English. Michele, former medical officer, well known in Udine, is already working to introduce his guests to people of Ukrainian nationality who have lived in the city for years, so that they can feel a little at home.

The child could not believe his eyes when he learned that he was welcomed by a goalkeeper who plays in Serie A. Vicario gave him his own Empoli shirt, making him smile in such a difficult moment for him.

The little boy, these days, is following the lessons of his school in Dad and, shortly, he will start playing football with a team in the area. In this sense, both Guglielmo himself and his father Michele have already taken action.

The little one, together with his mother, is keeping in touch with his father, who has remained in Ukraine, to defend himself from the Russian invasion.

Vicario will soon return home to Udine to greet them and who knows, even to play some football with his new friend. The gesture of solidarity of the goalkeeper and his family has had a wide echo nationwide. Many media have shared the story, also because it is the first linked to a player who plays in Serie A.

Born in 1996, former Udinese Primavera, the number one made his debut in the first team in 2014 in Fontanafredda in Serie D.

His climb started from the province of Pordenone: he then played with Venice in the Interregional, in Lega Pro and in Serie B, then he moved to Perugia always among the cadets. Last season he moved to Cagliari in Serie A and since the start of the current competitive year he is on loan at Empoli.

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