Giampiero Ventrone, former Juve coach today at Tottenham, died

Mourning in the world of football. Giampiero Ventrone, former Juventus athletic trainer, currently at Tottenham in Antonio Conte’s staff, died suddenly in his Naples, from a fulminant leukemia. He was 62 years old. According to sources from the Fatebenefratelli hospital in Naples, his death occurred this morning at 6.45 am. He was hospitalized in intensive care since yesterday. Ventrone had arrived in the emergency room on the evening of 4 October and was immediately put on mechanical ventilation because he was in a coma. A few days ago he had discovered that he had acute myeloid leukemia. The funeral will be held on Sunday at 3pm.

Ten years in black and white

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Ventrone, nicknamed the Marine because of his very hard training, had been at Juve from 1994 to 2004 and after an experience as assistant coach of Ajaccio he had returned to being an athletic trainer before Catania and then in China at Jiangsu Suning and at Guangzhou Evergrande. In 2021 Conte wanted him with him to get the Spurs back to win.

The reactions

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Tottenham at 11 this morning made official the death of its coach: “We are devastated to have to announce the death of Gian Piero Ventrone, our athletic coach. Off the pitch he knew how to be loved, on the pitch he was very demanding: Giampiero had become quickly an immensely popular figure among players and staff. Everyone will miss him a lot: our thoughts are with his family and friends in this difficult time. ” “A news that upsets us, unexpected and terrible”, writes the Italian Football Coaches Association. “A great loss for our world and also my personal one, as my great friend – the words of the vice president of the athletic trainers component, Francesco Perondi -. He was one of the important characters to affirm our figure in the world of football. . We’ll miss him”.