Fiorentina's General Manager Joe Barone in Critical Condition After Heart Attack

The conditions of Fiorentina's General Manager Joe Barone remain very serious after he suffered a heart attack on Sunday, a few hours before the match with Atalanta in Bergamo, and was admitted to the intensive cardio-surgical care unit of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. "Vital functions are supported by artificial mechanical support techniques. Any prognostic prediction is currently out of place," the purple club announced in a statement - "Clinical conditions remain critical. The Barone family, the Commisso family, and Fiorentina thank San Raffaele and all the team of Professor Zangrillo for the actions that have been taken from the first moment." Joe Barone, the heart attack, and the rush to San Raffaele for heart surgery: he is in serious condition. Fiorentina: any prediction is out of place. Joe Barone, his wife, and children by his side. Since yesterday evening, his wife Camilla and since this morning his children Pietro, Salvatore, Giuseppe, and Gabriella, who immediately arrived from the United States, have been by the manager's side. Along with them, several Fiorentina executives, 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. Yesterday in the late afternoon, the coach Vincenzo Italiano also returned to the hospital, among the first to rush there yesterday along with captain Cristiano Biraghi. Among those present was the president of Spal, Joe Tacopina, who knows both Barone and Rocco Commisso well, whose arrival in Italy is not currently considered imminent: the president of Fiorentina, understandably worried, is in constant contact with his executives. "I pray for Barone's health, that he fully recovers, he is a strong man loved by many people," was the post on social media by Joseph Commisso, the patron's son. The support of football. Increasingly numerous messages of closeness and support: Monza's CEO Adriano Galliani wrote "Dear Joe, we are waiting for you to come back stronger than before," the president of Empoli Fabrizio Corsi sent a hug to the Florentines and the family "hoping they can convey to him the strength to overcome this dramatic moment," Lazio published a statement saying it is "close to Fiorentina and the Barone family and also by virtue of the friendship that binds it to the purple manager, President Claudio Lotito has been following the evolution of his health condition with much trepidation from the start." A message of support was sent during the city council meeting held in Florence by President Luca Milano, another was launched by the Center for coordination of purple clubs. The purple fans. And today, in front of San Raffaele, a banner was posted by purple fans with the words 'Joe, don't give up.' On social media, the player Jonathan Ikoné posted words of encouragement, and together with his teammates, he will not return to training at Viola Park until Thursday as scheduled while Nico Gonzalez, Beltran, Kayode, Milenkovic, Barak, and Bonaventura have responded to their respective national team call-ups, albeit with a state of strong concern. During the day, Fiorentina, together with the Barone family and the Commisso family, released another note to thank "in this moment of profound sorrow, the Serie A League, Atalanta, and the FIGC for the closeness and sensitivity shown towards the purple company and the General Manager Joe Barone."