16 December 2022, Sinisa Mihajlovic dies in Rome. After three years of leukemia

no important match will be played on December 16, 2022. However, at the age of 53, Sinisa Mihajlovic, former coach of Bologna, Fiorentina, Sampdoria, Milan and Turin, loses itlinked to Italy since he was a footballer, with Roma, Lazio and Inter. In 2019 he discovered his disease, acute myeloid leukemia, while playing padel.

In July, he felt pain in his adductor, blaming the efforts due to the match. The Bologna doctors decided to insist on further investigations. The diagnosis, in fact, said leukemia. “I spent the night crying and I still have tears but they aren’t from fear. I’ll be going to hospital on Tuesday and I can’t wait to start fighting to get better. I explained to my players that I will fight to win as I taught them to do on the pitch. I will win this challenge, there is no doubt. The disease is in an acute and aggressive phase but attackable, it will take time but it will heal.”

He lived for three years with training sessions followed on the iPad, the players who went to visit him in the hospital under the window to celebrate a victory, the Sanremo festival with Ibra. The funeral chamber is set up in the following days in the Capitol, bringing together thousands of people for the final farewell, with the funeral being celebrated in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, in Piazza della Repubblica. In recent days he had been hospitalized at the Paideia clinicleaving behind his wife, Arianna, and six children.