The match of the 14th day of Serie A Fiorentina-Inter Milan was stopped on Sunday and will be replayed after Florentine player Edoardo Bove suffered discomfort, the Italian Football League announced.
The 22-year-old midfielder collapsed after 16 minutes of play when the two teams were 0-0. The player, on loan from Roma to Fiorentina, appeared to be in convulsions, according to television images, under the horrified eyes of the other players present on the pitch.
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 Sport, Bove regained consciousness at Careggi Hospital, close to Fiorentina's Artemio-Franchi stadium. And according to ANSA, an Italian press agency, an epileptic attack caused the player's discomfort and cardiac arrest.
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.
