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Your entire Fiorentina squad and Viola teaching workers got here collectively to pay tribute to midfielder Edoardo Bove, who’s at the moment in intensive care after collapsing on the pitch within the Serie A match towards Inter on Sunday, forward of kick-off in Wednesday’s .

Fiorentina pay respect to Bove after on-pitch collapse

The Fiorentina gamers unveiled in entrance of the cameras, which learn: ‘You didn’t need a shirt, so right here’s a banner’ and ‘Edo, we’re ready for you’.

The primary banner reveals that Bove clearly didn’t need his teammates to raise up his shirt forward of kick-off, which has turn out to be considerably of a pattern amongst sure squads if a participant is dominated out with a very severe harm or sickness.

Although Bove presumably didn’t need an excessive amount of of a fuss, there have been nonetheless loads of tributes forward of kick-off in Fiorentina’s Coppa Italia spherical of 16 match towards native challengers Empoli.

Followers held up selfmade banners wishing the 22-year-old a speedy restoration, whereas the Curva Nord unfurled a tifo holding up his shirt quantity, 4, in Fiorentina colors.

Bove stays in intensive care, however has been awake and alert because the starting of the week. He has spoken to a number of of his colleagues in-person on the Careggi hospital and likewise spoke to the entire Viola squad through a video name on Monday.