The Fiorentina reported on the death of its CEO, Giuseppe ‘Joe’ Baronewho He lost his life on Tuesday, due to a heart attack he suffered last Sunday.shortly before the duel between his team and Atalanta, corresponding to matchday 29 of Serie A, which was postponed for the same reason.
“With deep pain and immense sadness, Fiorentina loses one of its references today, a figure that marked the recent history of the club and that will never be forgotten. The general director Giuseppe Barone, after the illness suffered on Sunday, died today at the ‘San Raffaele’ hospital in Milan,” the Florence club explained through its social networks.
“Joe”, general director of the team since 2019 and one of those in charge of carrying out the new sports city project that the club launched a few months ago, suffered a heart attack in the hotel in Bergamo where the team was staying. just over an hour before the start of the match, and he had to be rushed by helicopter to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan with a serious condition.
Both the team’s coach, Vincenzo Italiano, and several players, led by their captain, Cristiano Biraghi, as well as part of the Florence club’s board of directors and his wife, went to the hospital where he was admitted on Sunday.
His four American children arrived in Milan on Monday from New York to be with Barone, who was kept alive in the hospital “thanks to artificial mechanical support techniques.” The arrival of the club president, Rocco Commisso, an American born in Italy, is scheduled for the next few hours.
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