On Tuesday, Joe Barone, Fiorentina’s chief executive, died after suffering a heart attack in Bergamo on Sunday, hours before the game against Atalanta, which was eventually postponed. According to the Italian press, the leader of the Alta emblem could not withstand his injuries and died in the hospital along with his wife and children.
Barone, 57 – he turns 58 tomorrow, Wednesday – was one of the most important figures in Fiorentina’s senior management and a personal friend of Rocco Commisso, the club’s president. He has held the position of CEO since November 2019.
“It is with deep pain and great sadness that Fiorentina today loses one of its reference points, a figure who marked the recent history of the club and who will never be forgotten. CEO Giuseppe Barone, after what happened on Sunday, died today at the San Raffaele stadium. hospital in Milan,” can be read in the team’s official statement.
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