Maura Lari

Biography

Who Is Maura Lari? Inside Franco Baresi’s Decades-Long Marriage

For more than 40 years, she stayed almost entirely out of the public eye — even as her husband became one of Italian football’s most decorated captains. Franco Baresi, the legendary AC Milan and Italy defender, died on July 31, 2026, at the age of 66 after a long illness. In the wave of tributes that followed, one figure who…