The midfielder trained by AS Roma was taken directly to hospital after collapsing suddenly at the end of the first quarter of an hour of the match against Inter Milan.
The match of the 14th day of Serie A Fiorentina-Inter Milan was stopped on Sunday and will be replayed after the discomfort of Florentine player Edoardo Bove. A few hours later, the Italian club gave reassuring news of its player, under sedation in the intensive care unit of the Careggi hospital in Florence, where he arrived in a “stable». «The first cardiological and neurological examinations made it possible to exclude serious lesions of the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system», We add, in a joint press release with the hospital.
Loaned by Roma to Fiorentina, the 22-year-old Italian midfielder collapsed on the pitch in the 16th minute of the match against Inter while the two teams were tied (0-0). On television images, the player appeared to be in convulsions, under the horrified eyes of the other players present on the pitch at the Artemio-Franchi stadium in Florence.
The referee interrupted the match and the two teams returned to the locker rooms. The Italian League then announced in a press release that the match was definitively stopped and would be rescheduled to “a date still undetermined“. According to Sky SportBove regained consciousness at the Careggi hospital, close to the stadium.
The painful memory of the death of Davide Astori
This unease has revived at Fiorentina the painful memory of the death of former captain Davide Astori in 2018, who died in his sleep at the age of 31 before a championship match against Udinese. Last season, AS Rome Ivorian international Evan Ndicka, 25, suffered illness during the match against Udinese on April 14, 2024. He collapsed in the 70th minute while complaining of a sharp pain in the chest. Roma, who finally won the match 2-1 replayed a few days later, explained that their player had suffered a collapsed lung, without any heart problem having been detected.
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