"Maurizio loved soccer all his life, he always played it. In the past we played together at an amateur level and in the Santa Lucia team in the Third Category championship. A good person, reserved and with gentle ways. We gather around the family and express our closeness". Words of condolence from Roberto Desini, former mayor and current president of the municipal council of Sennori, in front of the sudden death of Maurizio Serra, the 54-year-old from Sennori, who died of a sudden heart attack at the end of the calciotto (eight-a-side soccer) match, yesterday evening, Tuesday 25 March, at the municipal field of Borgo degli Ulivi in Sorso.

An employee at the Italian Post Office, he had enjoyed a moment of sport and fun with his friends. After the match, the referee blew his whistle and then everyone went to the locker rooms. A greeting to his teammates with whom he shared moments of lightheartedness and then the illness. He didn't even have time to get to his car to go home that he collapsed on the floor of the parking lot, in front of the sports facility.

The 118 health workers who rushed to the scene could do nothing. The Porto Torres Carabinieri also intervened and reported what had happened to the Public Prosecutor's Office, which ordered the body to be returned to the family for a final farewell. Maurizio Serra leaves behind a 20-year-old daughter.

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