AFTER TRAGEDY IN PESCARA, ITALIAN LEAGUE POSTPONED THIS WEEK

There is no Serie A and B that would be held this week. FIGC postpone all competition matches after the Livorno player died, Piermario Morosini.

Italian football again in mourning. Not long ago, the public Italian courtier Mirko Fersini Lazio youth team who died after a week coma, now Morosini is following the passed away Fersini.

The incident occurred when the matches between Pescara and Livorno into 31 minutes. The medical staff was working hard to save the life of Morosini. However, the 25 years old player can not be helped anymore when arriving at a local hospital.

 

To honor the departure of Morosini, FIGC suspend all Serie A and B matches this weekend, include Lazio versus Novara and the other matches. Rest In Peace, Morosini...

RIP MIRKO FERSINI

 

REST IN PEACE, MIRKO FERSINI...

After a tragic scooter accident, the heart of young Lazio player Mirko Fersini stopped beating. After struggled for about five days from his coma, finally Mirko passed away. After Mirkos' death, his family have given permission to donate his organs.
 

Lazio with president Claudio Lotito, the players and all the staff grief together with Mirko's family in this sad time, and flags have been lowered to half-mast at Formello today.

Fersini is a young team that handled by the former Lazio striker Simone Inzaghi. Fersini hit a large trash bin made ​​of iron. Tragically, the helmet that had been used by the young player apart from his head and finally hit the trash bin hardly.

REST IN PEACE, GIORGIO CHINAGLIA

A sad news came through from United States. The news reports that one of Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia has passed away in Florida at the age of 65 of complications from a heart attack.

Giorgio Chinaglia was born in Carrara, Tuscany in 1947, but in 1955, he moved to Cardiff, Wales with his parents, because of unemployment in Italy following World War II. When he was 13 years old, by which time his father had bought an Italian restaurant in Cardiff, Chinaglia was spotted scoring a hat trick for Cardiff Schools, and joined Swansea Town in the Football League Third Division in 1962.

While with Lazio from 1969-1976, Chinaglia scored 98 goals in 209 matches, and helped Lazio win its first Italian title (Scudetto) in 1974, and later became one of Lazio's president. The player also represented Italy in the 1974 World Cup.

Then in 1976, he moved to United States and joined the Cosmos and played alongside Pele and Franz Beckenbauer. Chinaglia was the all-time leading scorer in the North American Soccer League. He scored 262 goals in his eight seasons with the Cosmos. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1979 and was inducted into the Soccer Hall of Fame in 2000.

For all you have done for Lazio, we would grateful to you. Thank you, Giorgio. Rest In Peace.