Piermario Morosini

PIERMARIO MOROSINI, A MAN WHO DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED TO DO

By  Karol Caceres

Piermario Morosini’s early life was surrounded by soccer; he was born on the fifth of July in 1986 in the city of Bergamo, in Italy; where he lived with his parents and siblings. His parents always motivated him to play soccer, and it was their dream.

Unfortunately, one sad day in 2001, when Piermario was 15 years old; his mother, Camilla died and that really affected him but he spent his time playing soccer and that helped him really much. Sooner, two years later another tragedy occurred to Morosini’s family; his father Aldo, died in 2003 and his disabled brother died in the same year, and left him alone with his disable elder sister. Those tragedies really affected Piermario, but at the same time they encouraged him to fight for his soccer career; he expressed about his tragedies with these words: “these are things that change your life, but at the same time make you so angry and help you to achieve what was also a dream of my parents”.

Piermario’s soccer life started at hometown, when he played for Atalanta and sooner, he was sold to Udinese in a co-ownership deal during 2005. He debuted in Italy’s serie A on October 23^rd, 2005 in the match Udinese-Inter, in this season (2005-2006) he also had his debut in UEFA cup, in the match Levski Sofia-Udinese. After, Udinese got full ownership of Morosini but they decided to loan him to Bologna, so he could gain more experience. In 2007, half of the registration rights was farmed to Serie B club Vincenza Calcio.

Next, Morosini signed a four years contract with Vincenza and he was sold for €500.000 and after that, Udinese bought him back for €300.000. In 2009 he signed for newly-relegated Reggina on loan, one year later he was loaned to Calcio Padova and in 2011 he was transferred to Vincenza and in 2012 he signed for Livorno on loan.

He spent most of his professional career going on loans, acquiring experience but he never expected that he would die on the pursuit of his dream… on April 14^th, 2012; during Livorno-Pescara match he suffered a cardiac arrest. On the 31^st minute of the match, he fell to the ground and unfortunately he could not get up anymore. He was still conscious when the doctors took him to the ambulance and rushed him to the hospital but he died before he could get there.