Italian football and its football community were plunged into mourning Fiorentina.
Viola CEO Giuseppe Barone has died at the age of 58 after failing to survive the heart attack he suffered on the coach while the team was en route to the game against Atalanta (which was postponed). .
THE Baron he was in the Italian team since 2019, being a personal choice of the American owner, Rocco Comiso.
Fiorentina’s announcement:
With deep and immense sadness, Fiorentina today loses its point of reference, a figure who marked the recent history of the club and who will never be forgotten. General Manager Giuseppe Barone, after the illness that occurred on Sunday, breathed his last at the “San Raffaele” hospital in Milan.
Rocco Comiso and his family, Daniele Prade, Nicolas Burdiso, Alessandro Ferrari, Vincenzo Italiano, Cristiano Biraghi and all of Fiorentina feel deeply saddened by the terrible loss of a man who offered his great professionalism, his heart and his passion for these colors, of a friend. Available and always open at all times, both in the happiest and most difficult times.
The entire viola world embraces his wife Camilla, his children and the entire Barone family in an emotional embrace at this time of great despair.
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— ACF Fiorentina (@acffiorentina) March 19, 2024
Source: Sport Fm
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