MILAN — Monza coach Raffaele Palladino said
Sunday it was a miracle that on-loan Arsenal footballer
Pablo Mari was not more
seriously hurt after being stabbed during a deadly knife attack in an Italian
supermarket.
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The 29-year-old
Spanish defender, who was loaned to Serie A side Monza this summer, was
discharged from Milan’s Niguarda hospital on Sunday following surgery on Friday
for back wounds suffered while shopping with his wife and son the previous
evening.
Monza said earlier on Sunday that Mari “has returned
home and will now begin a period of complete rest” after suffering his injuries
in an attack in which one man was killed.
“It’s been a bad and good week,” Palladino told
reporters on Sunday.
“What happened to Pablo was a miracle, in that he
wasn’t badly hurt. We’re aware that it could have been a lot worse than it
was.”
Monza chief executive Adriano Galliani had asked
that Monday’s match with Bologna be postponed but the fixture will be played,
and Palladino’s team will wear a special shirt with the message “Come back soon
Pablo”.
Palladino added: “Our job is to go out on the pitch
and play, and give everything, above all for Pablo and what happened to him.”
Mari was one of several people attacked in a Carrefour
in Assago, on the outskirts of Milan in northern Italy, by a man apparently
suffering from psychological problems who killed an employee from the
supermarket after grabbing a knife from a shelf.
Four other people were hurt by a 46-year-old Italian
who was arrested by police, shortly after being disarmed by former Napoli and
Inter Milan defender Massimo Tarantino.
Brazil international Gabriel Martinelli held up Mari’s
Arsenal shirt after scoring the opening goal for the Gunners in Sunday’s 5–0
hammering of Nottingham Forest.
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