Matteo Franzoso died in Chile: the skier was in a coma

Matteo Franzoso did not make it. The Italian skier bearer of the Yellow Flames was in coma since 13 September, following a fall in training in La Parva, in Chile: the 25 -year -old Genoese, who grew up skiing at Sestriere, had reported a serious head injury. Franzoso had lost control of skiing after landing following a high -speed jump and would end up against a wooden fence. The blue athlete, helped in a Santiago clinic, had been immediately treated by doctors with a pharmacological coma but the situation worsened up to the brain death found on September 15 and confirmed by the official press release of Fisi. The parents had immediately flown to Chile to stay close to their son.

mourning sestriere

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For the Sestriere another tragedy less than a year after the death of Matilde Lorenzi, who disappeared following a trauma immediately in training in South Tyrol. Even the 20 -year -old from Turin, who died on October 28, 2024, grew up on the ski slopes of the well -known Piedmontese location.

Franzoso, the Fisi press release

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“The young life of Matteo Franzoso went out in a clinic of Chile’s clinic. The local health workers, who informed the Fisi medical commission and the federal president, gave the news. The 25 -year -old blue athlete did not exceed the consequences of the head injury and the consequent cerebral edema, which had been created after the fall that took place on Saturday during a training on the Pista di La Parva, 50 km from the Cilena. Franzoso, who would have turned 26 on September 16, he faced the first, a small jump of the training track, ending up thrown forward towards the networks. Intensive and induced to the pharmacological coma. with the passing of the hours, however, Franzoso’s physicist did not go back to the damage created by the trauma. Molteni, Marco Abbruzzese and Giovanni Franzoni. In the World Cup, on December 17, in the Val Gardena Superg. “It is a tragedy for the family and for our sport -said President Fisi, Flavio Roda -, a drama that brings us back to his mood just under a year ago, when Matilde Lorenzi disappeared. It is absolutely necessary to do everything possible because they no longer repeat such episodes. In this sad and painful moment I want to tell all the athletes and technicians, of all sports, that the federation is at their side and that will find all the necessary support. I ask for maximum respect for Matteo’s family, to which we will be close for everything necessary “. The Federal President, the Federal Council, all the athletes, the technicians and the staff are in mourning for the premature disappearance of Matteo Franzoso and tighten the family in these days of pain”.