Lecce wore white shirt in protest after Serie A rejected their appeal to postpone the Atalanta match following their physiotherapist’s death.
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Lecce wears white shirt
Graziano Fiorita, who had worked for Lecce for 26 years, died on Thursday in the team hotel in Bergamo.
He was 47.
Fiorita underwent an autopsy today and reports suggest the 48-year-old suffered a heart attack.
Serie A granted Lecce’s request to postpone Friday’s match but rescheduled it for Sunday, sparking the club’s indignation.
The players wore a white shirt with a black ribbon and a message written in black that translates in English as: “no value, no colour” during Sunday’s 1-1 draw.
Leece’s statement
“Graziano Fiorita died while on retreat with his team, far from his wife and four children, and still lies thousands of kilometres away from home, waiting for the magistrate to authorise his return,” Leece ssaid in a statement.
“This game should not have been held today, but all attempts to postpone it were cynically rejected.”
“We will play the game ‘of trampled values’ but we will do so wearing an anonymous white jersey that does not represent us, without colours, emblems, or logos. We will return to wearing our jerseys when Graziano returns home and is honoured, as he deserves, by his people.”
Leece also announced that fans can pay their final respects to Fiorita on Tuesday at the Via del Mare stadium.
