Fiorentina Captain Davide Astori Dies of Heart Attack at 31

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The purpose of this newspaper article is to focus on the unfortunate death of the captain
of the Fiorentina football club Davide Astori. This news had been published in the USA Today,
dated on 4th March, 2018 (Usatoday.com, 2018). This newspaper article is very much important
from the perspective of the football fans in particular. This article has been intended to the
football fans in particular. Many football fans of Fiorentina football club and Italian football fans
have been largely disheartened by this news. This newspaper article has been reported from
Udine, a town in Italy. Fiorentina went to this town to play their away football match for
Fiorentina against Udinese. This had been a very unnatural death for the Fiorentina captain who
was aged only 31 (Usatoday.com, 2018).
The reports have been very shocking as the captain of Fiorentina did not turn up at the
time of the breakfast since He has been a very efficient team member of the Fiorentina team in
his position. He has been a very successful defender for his club in all his appearances. The
reason of this unfortunate death has been suspected as normal cardiac arrest. As a repercussion,
all the matches in top two divisions in Italy had been postponed (Usatoday.com, 2018). Astori
had represented the national football team of Italy for 14 times as well. This match of Fiorentina
had been called off by the officials instantly. As it was thought to be an unnatural death for the
captain, his body had been taken to Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital to investigate more
on this case. An autopsy had been done in order to have better results on this incident
(Usatoday.com, 2018).
The expert officials have expressed their views that the player had been monitored every
now and then about all the health issues that could trouble an athlete like him. The player did not