Joe Barone, the Director General of Fiorentina, passed away after suffering a heart attack on Sunday before the match against Atalanta. His condition appeared to be very serious from the beginning, and in the last few hours, the situation had deteriorated despite the coronary intervention. Barone was admitted to the intensive care unit at San Raffaele.
Joe Barone, His Wife by His Side Until the End
With him until the end was his wife Camilla and from this morning his children Pietro, Salvatore, Giuseppe, and Gabriella, who had immediately arrived from the United States. Along with them, several Fiorentina executives were present, including the sports director Daniele Pradè (who spent the whole night in the facility), the technical director Nicolas Burdisso, the team manager Simone Ottaviani, and the club's medical officer Luca Pengue.
Commisso to Milan Tomorrow
The purple team's president Rocco Commisso will arrive in Milan tomorrow. Contrary to what was announced today by the purple clan, Commisso has decided to advance his arrival in Italy. He had a relationship of friendship and esteem with Barone. Commisso will be accompanied by his wife Catherine and some executives from Mediacom.
The Official Statement from Fiorentina
“With deep pain and immense sadness, Fiorentina today loses one of its points of reference, a figure who has marked the recent history of the Club and who will never be forgotten. The General Director Giuseppe Barone, after the illness occurred on Sunday, has passed away today at the “San Raffaele” hospital in Milan. Rocco Commisso and his family, Daniele Pradè, Nicolas Burdisso, Alessandro Ferrari, Vincenzo Italiano, Cristiano Biraghi and all of Fiorentina are devastated by the terrible loss of a man who offered his great professionalism, his heart, and his passion for these colors, of a friend who was always available and close in all moments, both the happiest and, above all, the most difficult. The entire purple world embraces in a moved hug the wife Camilla, his children, and the entire Barone family in this moment of enormous discomfort.”
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