Italian football in mourning

Fiorentina announced this Tuesday the death of its general director, Joe Barone.

This is sad news. Victim of a heart attack last Sunday, Joe Barone, general director of Fiorentina, died this Tuesday at the age of 57, the transalpine club announced through a press release published on social networks.

“ It is with deep and immense sadness that Fiorentina today loses one of its leading figures, a character who marked the recent history of the club and who will never be forgotten. General director Giuseppe Barone, who fell ill on Sunday, died today at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan »said the Viola.

“All of Fiorentina is devastated”

And to add: “The whole of Fiorentina is devastated by the terrible loss of a man who offered his great professionalism, his heart and his passion for these colors, of a helpful friend who was always close in all moments, even the happiest that, above all, the most difficult. The entire purple world embraces his wife Camilla, his children and the entire Barone family in this moment of immense despair. »

General manager of Fiorentina since November 2019, Joe Barone was rushed to hospital after feeling unwell. The meeting between Viola and Atalanta has been postponed.