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 31st 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 league game. The Pescara accident aroused a debate on local media, as some experts denounced the ambulance was blocked for some minutes by a parked car thus arrived too late to help the unfortunate player on the spot. An investigation was held over the case, local media said in the late afternoon.

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