Manager (“57) of Serie A club dead: deep sadness in Italy. Fiorentina mourns the loss of a “person who shaped the club’s recent history” Barone was taken to hospital by helicopter and underwent surgery after a medical emergency before the Serie A game between Atalanta Bergamo and Florence on Sunday.
The Sicilian native had spent many years in the United States and was also vice president of the New York Cosmos - the former club of Franz Beckenbauer, who died in January.