Lazio’s golden boy passed away on July 1 at the age of 68. The emotion also touched the yellow and red banks of the capital.
Vincenzo D’Amico is just the latest victim of adverse fate suffered by the Band of Tommaso Maestrelli who on May 12, 1974, beating Foggia 1-0, brought Lazio’s first championship to Rome.
From that group, among others, the coach Tommaso Maestrelli, the captain Pino Wilson, the center forward Giorgio Chinaglia, the goalkeeper Felice Pulici, the midfielder Luciano Re Cecconi, the director Mario Frustalupi already flew to heaven. The social doctor, Renato Ziaco, as well as the president, Umberto Lenzini, have also disappeared. An authentic curse that with an almost scientific cadence hits the company born a few meters from San Pedro, exactly in Piazza della Libertà, on January 9, 1900.
D’Amico died of a tumor that he himself had reported last May. In the last period he lived between Rome and Madeira, in Portugal. Of the derby he said: “Just a game between friends.” Sebino Nela was also in Rome to see him off. In Latina, another Italian champion from the team led by Nils Liedholm paid tribute to the midfielder.
The choice: the field where he had fun with Conti is named after D’Amico
D’Amico joined the Lazio youth team in 1971, Taken from Almas, an amateur club in the south of Rome, Tuscolano district. Until 1986 he played with the Eagle on his chest. The only parenthesis in 1980-1981, when the midfielder went on loan to Turin. In 1988 he retired after two years at Ternana.
The Latino talent had a first greeting on Monday afternoon to the funeral home installed in the Campidogliothe day after the funeral that was celebrated in the parish of the Gran Madre di Dio. That same Tuesday it was her hometown that paid tribute to her with the mourning of the city and the funeral home, then on Wednesday the funeral.
As had happened in the church of Pinte Milvio, the celebration in the Pontine capital also brought together numerous fans and friends to bid farewell to Vincenzino, as those who loved him called him.. Among these also a moved Bruno Conti. The 1982 Spanish Champion, from Nettuno, he was immortalized while carrying the coffin of his deceased friend on his shoulder. A sincere gesture that many people from Lazio appreciated, a long applause accompanied the departure of the coffin.
Conti and D’Amico are old friends. On social networks, for days, a worn black and white photo has been circulating, in which I two are pictured in the Cos Latina formation. The image was taken in the Don Bosco oratory that saw the two champions kick the ball for the first time. In D’Amico’s honor, his first “theater” could soon be named after him.
