Livorno`s Piermario Morosini
has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during an Italian second division
game at Pescara on Saturday, prompting the country`s soccer federation to
postpone this weekend`s professional matches.
"We have done
everything possible to save him but he never regained consciousness,"
doctor Leonardo Paloscia told reporters.
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| Piermario Morosini |
Another doctor at the Pescara hospital said the 25-year-old, a former Italy
The news comes just weeks
after Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered the same problem in
an English FA Cup match before making a remarkable recovery.
Serie A said in a statement
that the federation had postponed all the weekend`s professional soccer
matches.
Morosini, born in Bergamo
and a former player with the city`s Atalanta team, fell to the ground with no
one around him in the 31st minute.
He got up looking confused
and then collapsed again as medics and then an ambulance rushed on to the field,
although media reported that the local council will hold an investigation into
whether the ambulance was blocked by the car of a police officer.
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