25 year old Italian footballer Piermario Morosini is dead. The footballer slumped on the football field after suffering cardiac arrest during his team Livorno's Serie B match at Pescara.
Morosini, who was on loan from Serie A side Udinese, fell to the ground in the 31st minute of the match and tried unsuccessfully to get up several times before receiving urgent medical attention on the pitch. A defibrillator was used on the player, who also had his heart massaged, before an ambulance arrived on the pitch to take him to hospital where doctors tried to revive him for around an hour and a half.
A consultant in the hemodynamics department at the hospital, who was watching the game and rushed to help before the ambulance arrived, said Morosini never regained consciousness.
"Morosini never had a single heartbeat again," Leonardo Paloscia said. "From when I arrived he never gave a sign of revival, not in his respiration nor his heartbeat. When I arrived everything [his heart, respiration] was stopped.
"No one can say what the cause was, I think nothing will come out until after the autopsy."
The autopsy will likely be held on Monday. All Italian matches this weekend were immediately called off after the death was announced.
"We are living through a drama," Pescara's general manager, Danilo Iannascoli, told Sky Italia.
Italian Player Slumps And Dies On The Football Field
