There is a time to relive one’s path together with the disenchantment, the serenity and perhaps even the detachment of which the people who have strongly desired, tried to build a solid family, are capable. And that perhaps they managed to amalgamate, but at a different stage and in a form that they then failed to recognize: Simona Marchini and Franco Cordova, glory of the Roma, they have been married for a long time. They met, loved each other and looked for a son, who did not arrive. And that divided them, as he said Simona Marchini a Today to another day.
Simona Marchini, the career
Daughter of the former president of the Roma, the Marchini she embarked on a bright television career, linked to characters and programs of abnormal popularity, trying to emancipate herself from a preconstituted role that saw her, however, a reflex protagonist, albeit in a golden season for Roman football. Affirmed actress e director, he also wanted to reiterate – in the most complex moments for the show – exposing himself to the trade union level.
Simona Marchini and the meeting with Franco Cordova
During the long interview given to Today is another day, Simona Marchini spoke about the close relationship with Franco Cordova, former captain of the Roma, her second husband and from whom she separated after nine years of marriage in the distant past 1980.
The actress and TV presenter shared with the audience the moments of extreme joy, serenity and profound pain. Cordova. The loss of four children, expected and loved but who never arrived.
“We both cared about this, but unfortunately it didn’t happen and it created a certain difficulty between us,” he revealed.
The pain of the loss of four children
At the wedding with Cordova, an authentic symbol of a hyperbolic and strong-willed Rome, idol of the Curva Sud to the point of rudeness, she had arrived young but with a marriage behind her with Roberto Paolopoli, father of his only daughter Roberta, which made her a grandmother. A life, hers, experienced in the fullness of the opportunities that were proposed to her and that she was able to seize: as a girl from the Roma Well a protagonist of Those who the night, alongside a Renzo Arbore brilliant and multifaceted author.
Marriage with Cordoba, when he embarked on an effective television career he had already vanished and, due to a strange intersection, the new partner of the former footballer was then another protagonist of the productions signed by Arbor, in those years, Marisa Laurito.
Cordoba’s love for Simona Marchini
Franco Cordova, called Ciccio, had courted the daughter of Alvaro Marchini with the discretion and elegance that she herself described with romanticism in previous interviews and full of fragments of their life together. They married in 1970 and their union lasted about 10 years: Cordova, born in 1944, was hired by Rome in 1967 and was the captain from 1972 to 1976.
A man far from stereotypes, intolerant of the clichés that accompanied the footballers of the time, he distinguished himself for his curiosity, study, new and unexplored passions, also enrolling at the University and cultivating a passion for the art e architecture.
“Four abortions in the fifth month. I remarried with youthful enthusiasm because I wanted a family for my daughter. I dedicated myself completely, I wanted my daughter to feel like my daughter and have a dad. And Ciccio Cordova was a good dad, he had the merit of this warm affection. I would have wanted more children, ”he explained Simona Marchini emphasizing the intensity of those emotions.
And also the suffering, unspoken, due to the losses suffered, the sacrifice of the months spent in bed and the doubts that devastated her in those days. And as today, with the evolution of diagnostics and thanks to research, thrombophilia problems can be faced.
VIRGILIO SPORT
