Overview

• The candid interview in Corriere della Sera accompanies the release of his memoir, Il vento in faccia e la tempesta nel cuore.
• Nela recounts managing colon cancer by setting incremental goals through chemotherapy side effects, which he says helped him cope.
• He says cancer has devastated his family, noting the deaths of his father and a sister and another sister living with the disease.
• Reflecting on peers who died of cancer—including Vincenzo D’Amico, Paolo Rossi, Sinisa Mihajlovic and Gianluca Vialli—he says he was simply more fortunate.
• He revisits his Roma years and present life, from the 1982–83 scudetto and the Liverpool final to Venditti’s song for him, seaside walks, reading geopolitics and chess.