What begins today is a present without Mattia Giani, for his girlfriend, his parents and his brother Elia called to face disturbing and suspended questions – at the same time – about what happened in those interminable moments that marked their lives. An unpredictable change in the direction of their lives is decided. There is a before and there is an after. And that’s what the father of the young 26ene footballer Castelfiorentino United explicit in his words, full of pain but equally dignified and lucid, to those who ask him about what happened immediately after the illness.
To honor his memory, the Figc has decided to observe a minute of reflection before the races scheduled today and for the entire weekend, including advances and postponements.
The complaint from Mattia Giani’s father
They were present at the stadium, Sandro Giani and his wife DeborahGrandpa Loriano: a Sunday similar to those always spent on the fields supporting Matthias and Elijahwho militates in Legnago Salus in Serie C. Lives of footballers, theirs with family members in tow. Nothing exceptional, for those who know these dynamics and weekends spent chasing a dream, a true passion like that of football.
Matthias Giani he had been living with his partner for just two days, Sofia Caruso, who on social media has entrusted in a few words her heartbreak, her desperation and also that unpreparedness that each of us has to deal with when we are called to face similar losses at that age. Two days from the start of a coexistence that would become a common path, being together.
But there is also something else in this pain that no one can dig into except those who cling to it. Dad Sandro he still has the strength to denounce what he saw on that football field: “We are destroyed but now we want the truth: we will file a complaint because we want to understand how our son died”, he tells the Corriere della Sera et al Tyrrhenian.
The family Giani he lives in Ponte a Egola: his father has a business that he runs while his boys have dedicated themselves to football. Matthias he is the brother of Elia Gianiwho currently plays in Legnago Salus and who immediately expressed his condolences to his player and his family with a statement:
The same pain as Gianluca Mancini, Roma player, and his wife Elisa linked to the Giani family by a kinship bond. He, like other players, managers and clubs who felt the urgency of expressing closeness.
The illness: cardiac arrest on the pitch
In the 14th minute of Lancilotto-Castelfiorentino, Eccellenza match, his son Mattia feels ill, it is later understood that he is the victim of a cardiac arrest. “I only know that the doctor wasn’t there on that field. And that the first 118 ambulance arrived without a doctor after 15 minutes. And that in the meantime the masseur of the Castelfiorentino tried to resuscitate my son and then a spectator who works as a nurse came down from the stands to help. The defibrillator was there but was only used by the doctor transported by the second ambulance. Can one die like this?”.
A question whose only answer can and must be no, you can’t die like this after the live death we all witnessed of Piermario Morosiniafter what happened to Christian Eriksen, who received a miracle, and other players. Once the investigation has been opened, the Prosecutor’s Office will have to establish whether there has been any responsibility. The ASL explains that the ambulance arrived in 8 minutes and the FIGC regulations require the presence of the doctor on the sidelines or of the ambulance, reports the Corriere della Sera.
Ambulance and defibrillator
According to the reconstruction carried out by Mattia a’s father The Tyrrhenian Seathe doctor wasn’t there. Sandro Giani he tells the local newspaper, which also reports on the newspaper’s website, that at a certain point he saw a defibrillator but that no one used it to try to resuscitate Matthias. According to this story, there wasn’t even a doctor present on the first ambulance, who arrived with the second one.
To the Careggi from Florence, Giani he arrived after about 40 minutes according to his family. They were all present and so everyone followed him and waited outside the ward, waiting for an awakening that never came. Yesterday morning, April 15, the confirmation of his death. girlfriend Sofia Caruso, shocked, she confided to a friend of hers: “In life you never know what you’ll find around the corner. Now I find myself a widow.”
The mayor’s announcement
Grief affects us in a particular way Castelfiorentino, for whose colors the young man fought and to whom he was attached. The participation of the mayor and the community was tangible, from the first minutes after the news of the illness spread Matthias.
On Monday morning, the mayor’s post Alessio Falorni, which confirmed the death of the very young footballer, after the first appeal of hope and which caused the emotional wave that we read about on Facebook:
“Unfortunately, terrible news has come to me. Mattia didn’t make it. Words are definitely lacking in these moments. A terrible tragedy. An excruciating pain. We can only gather together in a very strong embrace of the family and the society to which they belong. Rest in peace. “, it is read.
On social media some friends had denounced, among the comments, what the Giani’s father he lined up: ambulance, defibrillator, doctor. Horrible aspects of this loss, which the judiciary will have to provide answers to.
Many comments have followed, in the last few hours, this announcement which unfortunately confirms Mattia’s death. Friends, acquaintances and even local sports associations and big clubs – afterwards Empoli also Roma, Udinese, Fiorentina, Lazio and Pescara to name just a few – who wanted to demonstrate their solidarity with his loved ones, for this terrible tragedy.
There Figc decided to honor Giani with a minute’s silence on all pitches: “I express my deepest condolences and that of the Italian Football Federation to Mattia’s family – states the president, Gabriele Gravina -. The entire Italian football movement rallies around those who loved him, the Castelfiorentino club and the friends of the Tuscany Regional Committee of the National Amateur League. We are faced with a tragedy that has shaken everyone – underlines the federal president – which also occurred on the anniversary of the death of the late Piermario Morosini and on the same day in which the Roma footballer also fell ill Evan Ndicka“.
The reactions of politicians
With this in mind, the group leader of the centre-right lists Paolo Gandola asked Campi to “verify whether the 118 assistance was timely”. Giorgio Mulé, vice-president of the Chamber and Forza Italia MP, then announced a question because “there was a defibrillator at the Campi Bisenzio stadium but it seems it wasn’t on the sidelines as it should have been”. The senator of IV, Daniela Sbrollini, then announced a question to Minister Abodi to shed light on the “cases of illnesses on the pitch, particularly in the minor leagues” which would have “multiplied”.
Requests that must materialize in what his father asked Sandro: that there is a defibrillator on every football pitch and that there are trained personnel to use it when necessary.
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