Livorno Midfielder Piermario Morosini Died After Collapsing on Pitch

Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini has died after collapsing in the 31st minute during the club’s Serie B match with Pescara. Medics used a defibrillator on the pitch. He suffered a heart attack in the ambulance and died before reaching the hospital. The 25-year-old Italian was on loan from Udinese.

The match was called off. All Italian matches this weekend have been suspended.

According to Italian media reports, the ambulance was impeded on its way to the pitch by a parked police car.

A car belonging to traffic police blocked the ambulance’s way into the stadium and a window had to be broken so the car could be moved.
“I don’t know if the ambulance was late, but I know that the entrance onto the pitch was blocked by a vehicle,” Iannascoli said. “Morosini collapsed, he tried to get back up but then collapsed again.”

Morosini’s collapse is similar to the cardiac arrest suffered by Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba in March.

[Photo via Getty]

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9 Responses to “Livorno Midfielder Piermario Morosini Died After Collapsing on Pitch”

BFFredo Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 12:00 PM

R.I.P.

The natural inclination is to see Muamba’s heart attack and Morosini’s heart attack and add them up to some underlying issue with the sport. But I think it’s more to do with detection of heart issues and how difficult such a thing is. All the same, it would be nice to see the sport’s ruling bodies working towards it.

kazzythekid Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 12:00 PM

I dunno shit about Italian laws, but any chance the traffic cop can be charged with contributing to the death of Morosini for parking his car there?

/team Fuck The Police

Seven Different Kinds Of WhatHaveYa Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:11 PM

would you be writing about a serie b player if he didn;t die on the field? some 12-yo in a suburb near me died after getting hit in the neck with a baseball during a game. want the link?

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:15 PM

The natural inclination is to see Muamba’s heart attack and Morosini’s heart attack and add them up to some underlying issue with the sport. But I think it’s more to do with detection of heart issues and how difficult such a thing is. All the same, it would be nice to see the sport’s ruling bodies working towards it.

You would think there could be more testing. I wonder how much SCD could be predicted/prevented by using genetic/imaging technologies at our disposal. I’m surprised more doesn’t come up in screening. For instance, how did Jeff Green make it so far without any detection of his aneurysm. That both happened on the pitch (rather than practice/workout) and so close together is striking, and I agree that it shouldn’t lead to a conclusion that it is somehow soccer-related.

Seven Different Kinds Of WhatHaveYa Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:18 PM

r.i.p. indeed

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Boy-dies-after-being-hit-by-baseball-041312

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:20 PM

12-yo in a suburb near me died after getting hit in the neck with a baseball during a game. want the link?

yes

Seven Different Kinds Of WhatHaveYa Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:22 PM

that’s some service wwos

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 1:24 PM

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-youth-baseball-death-0414-20120414,0,2003914.story

A better write-up of that. Though both are tragic, the two are very unrelated. That boy is a tragic story, and his death is from catastrophic trauma that is effectively unpreventable.

SCD is often preventable, and screening measures are in place that can readily identify at-risk inidividuals. Routine EKG/echo could have possibly prevented both of those soccer incidents.

BethesdaBlackfish Says:
April 14th, 2012 at 2:42 PM