Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini has died after collapsing on the pitch during a Serie B match at Pescara. The player fell to the ground half an hour into the match after suffering a heart attack. Italian media report that the 25-year-old tried to get up at first but failed. Medical staff attended to him on the pitch, before he was stretchered off and taken to the nearest hospital. He arrived at the hospital in a pharmacological coma and doctors fitted him with a provisional pacemaker but he could not be resuscitated. Morosini, a former Italy U21 international, is currently on loan at Livorno from Serie A side Udinese. This comes in the same week that a 28 year old lad died training with Hurling club Kilburn Gaels.
Article on football italia site about this. Absolutely tragic. Atalanta youth team chief Mino Favini reveals the tragedies that blighted Piermario Morosini’s brief life. “He was golden.” The 25-year-old collapsed during today’s Pescara-Livorno Serie B match and was owned by Udinese, but grew up in the prestigious Atalanta youth academy. “He was golden, always trying to help his family. That was Piermario Morosini,” explained Favini. “He grew up at Atalanta with me and I saw him playing as a very young boy. He was a fantastic lad who always rushed to help everyone. He lived for his family. “Yet he was such an unlucky man. He lost both parents young, his brother and sister have physical handicaps. His little brother recently killed himself by jumping out of a window. He had the most unfortunate life. “Udinese signed him from us and he was very talented. He had a strong career, was respected by all his teammates. Everywhere he went, people spoke highly of him. He had a heart of gold.” Former Vicenza teammate Raffaele Schiavi, now a defender at Padova, posted a picture of Morosini’s smiling face on Twitter. “Despite the many family problems he had, Moro always had a smile on his face and never let those issues come through. It’s how I want to remember him.”
