The former patron of Palermo football and Venice, Maurizio Zamparini, died in the night at the Cotignola Hospital in Ravenna.

The Friulian entrepreneur, 80 years old in June, died around two o'clock due to complications related to a colon problem that had led to his hospitalization in recent days.

Zamparini already on Christmas Eve had been hospitalized and urgently operated on the abdomen for peritonitis at the Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital in Udine where he had also been in intensive care for a few days following surgery due to the severity of the picture clinical.

After a few days Zamparini had recovered to the point of allowing him to return home even if the overall picture of his health was not the best.

Zamparini, in October, had suffered a severe blow due to the death of his youngest son, Armando, who disappeared in London at the age of 23 from ischemia and had by his second wife Laura Giordani. He leaves four other children: Silvana, Greta, Andrea and Diego, with his first wife.

CORDOGLIO IN PALERMO - Palermo football has sent a formal request to the Lega Pro to take the field with mourning on his arm tomorrow at 18 at the "Barbera" on the occasion of the derby against Messina valid for the recovery of the second return day of Group C of the Serie C championship. The rosanero club has also listed its logo in mourning on all its social channels. The Friulian entrepreneur, at the helm of Palermo, obtained qualification in the Uefa Cup and the final of the Italian Cup by launching great players such as Cavani, Amauri, Dybala and Pastore.

(Unioneonline / vl)