Tremendous mourning for Lecce, match with Atalanta postponed

Lecce is in mourning: Graziano Fiorita, the team’s longtime physiotherapist and osteopath, died suddenly at just 38 years of age, having been found lifeless in his hotel room in Coccaglio, in the province of Bergamo, where he was with the team ahead of tomorrow’s match against Atalanta.

The group will return home as it is practically certain that, following the request of the Apulians, the match with Atalanta scheduled for tomorrow at 8:45 p.m. and valid for the thirty-fourth day of Serie A will be postponed. This is the note published by the club.

“U.S. Lecce, deeply shocked, announces that Graziano Fiorita has passed away suddenly. The physiotherapist, who had been in the Giallorossi ranks for more than 20 years, was with the team in the Coccaglio retreat. The team will return to Lecce immediately, as tomorrow’s scheduled match with Atalanta will be postponed.”

“In this moment of deep sorrow and total disbelief, in which any words would be superfluous, the club can only huddle around his wife Azzurra and children Carolina, Davide, Nicolò and Riccardo, his mother Francesca and all the family members”.