Italian midfielder Edoardo Bove collapsed during the Fiorentina-Inter Milan match on Sunday December 1.
The player, aged 22, was evacuated after and the match was stopped.
Fiorentina communicated reassuring news of his state of health in the evening.
The incident caused shock in the stadium. Italian Fiorentina player Edoardo Bove collapsed in the middle of a match against Inter Milan on Sunday, leading to the interruption and then definitive end of this match on the 14th day of Serie A. The 22-year-old midfielder suddenly collapsed after 16 minutes of play, appearing to be in convulsions, according to television footage. The medical team attempted to resuscitate the young player, on loan from Roma to Fiorentina, before he was taken to hospital.
In shock, several teammates of Edoardo Bove were in tears. The match was suspended, with all players and officials returning to the locker room, before the Italian League announced the postponement of the match in a press release.
In the evening, Fiorentina gave reassuring news, indicating that the young player was under sedation in the intensive care unit of the Careggi hospital in Florence, where he arrived in a poor condition. “stable”. “The first cardiological and neurological examinations made it possible to exclude serious lesions of the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system”added the club in a joint press release with the hospital.
The 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.
