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deviant
15-12-2006, 09:45 PM
Horrible news RIP.
Juve game postponed after youth players drown
(adds details, previous MILAN)
TURIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Juventus's Serie B game at home to Cesena on Friday was postponed after two players in the youth team drowned in a lake inside the club's sports centre.
Fire brigade divers retrieved the bodies of the pair, both aged 17, from the small artificial lake, Italian news agencies said. They added that the two players appeared to have fallen in the ice-cold water as they were trying to retrieve a football.
The Turin's side Web site said the Cesena match had been postponed after a serious accident, without giving more details.
matidbr
15-12-2006, 09:49 PM
Fatal news. I was extremelly shocked when I found out about this. Rest in Peace Alessio and Riccardo.... :(
DanneS
15-12-2006, 10:16 PM
What a tragic accident. Unbelievable.
Nerazzurri4life
15-12-2006, 10:43 PM
OMFG
just read this on the news....
condolences to the families of the 2 youth players and their extended family, juventus fc....
RIP
:(
Dogme
15-12-2006, 10:48 PM
This is really sad news :(
Tragic news:(
Condolences to their families.
I was wondering why the Juve-Cesena match wasn't being shown on TV - they've postponed it now.
Terrible to hear :(
sneupane01
16-12-2006, 01:58 AM
very sad:( :( :( :( :(
Yusuf
16-12-2006, 02:26 AM
Tragic indeed. But i ant to know how did this happen? Surely club should take responsibility for not looking after the lake properly.
sccr_11
16-12-2006, 02:48 AM
very sad news
Terrible tragedy. My prayers are with their families.
aribeth
16-12-2006, 03:18 AM
very bad and sad news.
:(
barcalove
16-12-2006, 08:31 AM
i dont understand how they drowned, there was no further info i could find beyond "they drowned in a pond fetching balls". which sounds really really weird to me. regardless, its an awful bit of business :( RIP
actually deviant's post has more info than the news release i saw earlier... so its an artificial lake that was frozen over? or was the water just very cold? i'm still pretty confused and it seems a bit of a freak accident.
deviant
16-12-2006, 11:44 AM
Im pretty sure the lake was frozen over.
TURIN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A minute's silence will be observed on Italian soccer pitches at the weekend and all players will wear black armbands in memory of two teenagers from the Juventus youth team who drowned on Friday.
Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, both aged 17, drowned in a small, fenced artificial lake inside the club's training centre.
The two appeared to have fallen in the ice-cold water of the 4-metre deep lake as they were trying to retrieve a football.
zaffo
16-12-2006, 01:16 PM
Ferrara in shock at Juve tragedy
Saturday 16 December, 2006
Ciro Ferrara and Michelangelo Rampulla expressed their shock at the tragic drowning of two Juventus youth team players.
Last night the Serie B match against Cesena was postponed after the bodies of 17-year-old Alessio Ferramosca and goalkeeper Riccardo Neri – who would’ve turned 17 today – were found in an artificial lake in the Vinovo training ground.
“This is the worst day of my life,” said a visibly moved Ferrara, who is in charge of the Bianconeri youth system.
“I knew these boys and had seen them around, so it’ll be strange not to see them again. I am destroyed. Please don’t make me speak, I can’t manage it right now.”
Rampulla, another former Juve legend, is now the goalkeeping Coach and was stunned at the tragedy to have struck this club.
“Last year Neri was one of the main protagonists in the Scudetto Allievi victory. I saw great qualities in him and wanted to let him train with the first team next season. He would’ve been ready to work with Gianluigi Buffon.”
The reasons behind the accident are not yet clear, but it seems the two teenagers climbed over a fence to recover some footballs that had fallen into the lake, which is 50m by 30m and 5m deep, after a Christmas party.
It’s believed they slipped on the plastic sheeting used to keep the water in the artificial structure and couldn’t climb back out.
Ferramosca was pronounced dead at the scene, but desperate attempts to reanimate Neri at the hospital failed.
“This is such an absurd tragedy, it makes no sense,” added Rampulla. “When we think of everything that’s happened to us this year, one wonders what else can hit this club?”
It has certainly been a traumatic 2006 for the Turin giants. Calciopoli saw them demoted to Serie B and director Gianluca Pessotto is only now working towards full recovery after falling from a window at the club headquarters in an apparent suicide attempt.
Ferramosca’s father, Lucio, is the vice-President of amateur club side Atletico Mirafiori, where Alessio first showed his talents. His family had until recently lived only a few miles from the Vinovo training ground, as he was a native of Turin.
Neri was from Florence and his family had been preparing the celebrations for today, his 17th birthday.
There will be a minute’s silence before all Serie A and B games this weekend in memory of the two youngsters.
Very tragic news to hear. RIP Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri.
spinepus
16-12-2006, 01:37 PM
how awful. what terrible news
jlimty
16-12-2006, 01:51 PM
RIP :( Such terrible news..
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