The Lombard provincial football world mourns Leo Gritti, nicknamed bomber, who died at the age of 47.
Former player of several Lombard teams including Monza, Trevigliese, Leffe, he had been in a vegetative state since 2012. Hit by a heart attack on the football field, he had never recovered: at the time there were no defibrillators immediately available on the football fields. game.
He died last night at the Ovidio Cerruti retirement home, in Capriate San Gervasio, in the Bergamo area.
"You will always be with us, Bomber", this is how the world of Bergamo football honors him.
He played for a long time in C1 and C2 then, after a brief spell at Monza in B, in the early 2000s he returned to amateur football, first in Excellence then in Third Category.
The Usd Arzago, a team in which he played in the Third Category and the country in which he had also opened a club, remembers him on Facebook: "Our striker Leo Gritti, the most representative player of our club ever, passed away. than off the pitch. Bomber, your memory will forever remain indelible within each of us. Thank you for everything ".
There is no shortage of condolences from many ordinary citizens and other football clubs, including Trevigliese, which declares itself "honored to have had a player of such talent and a boy of unparalleled sympathy".
(Unioneonline / L)