Gianluca Vialli

Italian soccer player who became manager of the most fashionable team in the sport, the Chelsea Football Club in England, taking over from Ruud Gullit in February 1998. An ex-player with Juventus (1992–1996), Vialli was a decisive striker during his playing career.

Son of a self-made millionaire, Vialli was brought up with his four siblings in the 60-room Castello di Belgioioso  in Cremona. Vialli married Cathryn White-Cooper on 26 August 2003 and fathered two daughters, Olivia and Sofia. He was a keen golfer. Vialli continued to live in SW6 in London, 20 years after leaving Chelsea F.C.

In November 2018, Vialli revealed that he had successfully overcome a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was given the all-clear from pancreatic cancer in April 2020, but in December 2021 revealed that he had been diagnosed with the disease for a second time. He died on 6 January 2023 in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London at age 58.