All Italian matches scheduled in the weekend were suspended after Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini died on Saturday from a heart attack during a Serie B match , local media said . A crowd of players and supporters shouted and cried outside a hospital in Pescara , a city in central Italy , when cardiologist Edoardo De Blasio confirmed the death of the 25 -year-old . Morosini began to stagger in the 31th minute of the Pescara-Livorno match and then fell to the ground . Medical staff tried to revive the player and then rushed him to the hospital , but Morosini ' s conditions were already too desperate to save him , doctors said . It was only the latest of a long series of sudden deaths in the sport world . A few days ago , another Italian , former Olympic volleyball silver medalist Vigor Bovolenta , died of a heart attack during a second-tier ...