Joe Barone died, a federal manager of Fiorentina.

In mourning Italian football sank and in particular the, after the news of Joe Barone’s death. The general manager of the viola lost his battle with life, after he suffered Sunday (17/3). Fiorentina’s people are shocked at the death of the group’s 58-year-old General manager, Joe Barone. The unfortunate man had suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized since Sunday evening in a very critical condition in a hospital in Milan, which had led to the postponement of Fiorentina’s encounter with Atalanta. Unfortunately, his heart could not bear, leaving behind his wife Camila and his four children, Pietro, Salvatore, Giuseppe and Gabriela. La Fiorentina pienge Joe Barone — ACF Fiorentina (@acffiorentina) Fiorentina’s announcement : “With deep pain and immense grief, Fiorentina loses one of her reference points today, a figure that marked the recent history of the club and that will never be forgotten. General Director Giuseppe Barone, after the illness that struck him Sunday, left today at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital. Rocco Comiso and his family, Daniele Pradé, Nicolas Bourdiso, Alessandro Ferrari, Vicencho Italiano, Cristiao Biragi and all Fiorentina feel devastated by the terrible loss of a man who offered his great professionalism, his heart and his passion for these colors. A man who was a friend available and always close to all times, the happiest and most especially the most difficult. The whole purple world embraces his wife Camila, his children and the entire Barone family in this moment of enormous despair,” says Fiorentina’s announcement.