After the illness on the pitch and the postponement of the match to a later date, the world of football is gathering in these hours around Edoardo Bove, the Roman midfielder of Fiorentina who yesterday around the sixteenth minute of the first half, during the match against Inter , he felt ill and suddenly collapsed to the ground. Transported away urgently first on a stretcher and then in an ambulance, at the moment according to the latest news released yesterday evening by AC Fiorentina and the Careggi hospital where the young man is hospitalised, Bove is “under pharmacological sedation”, admitted to the intensive care unit.
“The Viola player – we read in the press release – arrived stable from a haemodynamic point of view at the emergency room and the first cardiological and neurological tests carried out excluded acute damage to the central nervous system and the cardio-respiratory system. Edoardo Bove will be re-evaluated in the next 24 hours.” He arrived at the hospital unconscious, but later regained consciousness.
Present in the hospital, in addition to the family, were the Viola managers, from coach Palladino to his teammates and a group of fans. While on social networks the world of football expresses solidarity with the boy with many messages of closeness. The world of football is rallying around Edoardo Bove, with many messages of closeness. One of the first came from Rome, where the young man played: “One of us, we are all with you. Go Edo!” the words entrusted to social media by his former club.
A prayer came from the teammates, starting with David De Gea. “God please”, “God, please” wrote the Fiorentina goalkeeper on former France star Thierry Henry. “I was watching the match and I was frozen. My thoughts and prayers are with Bove and his family.” “Hoping it was a scare” – writes the former Milan Bennacer. “I pray for you” – is the social message from Abraham, Bove’s former teammate at Roma.
Cataldi was the first to intervene
The intervention of Danilo Cataldi, among the first to intervene to help his teammate, was decisive for the fate of Edoardo Bove. The former Lazio captain put his hand in his mouth to move his tongue and thus avoid blocking the airways. Gosens was also among the first to rush, while captain Ranieri had a heated argument with an ambulance attendant because the vehicle did not enter the pitch. Federico Dimarco, from Inter, also rushed to try to speed up the rescue efforts.
Who is Edoardo Bove
Born in Rome, to an Italian-German mother and a father from Naples, he attended the sports-oriented scientific high school at the John Paul II International Equal Institute in Rome, where in 2021 he obtained the scientific high school diploma. Then the degree course in economics and management at Luiss University and his debut with José Mourinho’s Roma who good-naturedly defined him as “Sick Dog”. He declared that he was inspired by Daniele De Rossi, his coach at Roma in 2024 until his move to Fiorentina.
The player on loan from Roma to Fiorentina is the owner of the Boreale football club based in the Don Orione area of Camilluccia. In a recent interview he declared that he wanted to end his career there, not before the age of 40. Raised in Roma, Bove made 92 appearances and 4 goals in all competitions for the Giallorossi. In the last transfer session, the transfer, discussed in the market, was on an honorary loan to Fiorentina with the obligation to buy set at just over 10 million euros.
