Three doctors were
convicted Tuesday in the death of former Italy Under 21
international Piermario Morosini during a Serie B soccer match
for Livorno at Pescara in April 2012. Pescara team doctor
Ernesto Sabatini and Livorno team physician Manlio Percellini
got eight months each and emergency medic Vito Molfese got one
year in jail. All the sentences were suspended. The three
convicted were also sentenced, along with Pescara health
authority and Pescara Calcio soccer club, to pay a provisional
150,000 euros in compensation for Morosini's death. The three
were the first to assist 25-year-old Morosini after he collapsed
on the field following a heart attack.
photo: Morosini (left) in action before his heart attack
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