That is a shame.31 and super fit and yet taken away.
Fiorentina’s captain Astori dead
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Truly terrible news. Only 31 years old, fit athlete doing what he loves, and then suddently just pass away while sleeping. Life really is unpredictable. RIP. 
One of my very close friend back in middle school passed away 4 years ago in similar circumstances. Early 20s, athletic, then just passed away in his sleep, respiratory problem.
C'est la vie.
Great player, shocked to hear of the news, thoughts go out to his family and Firenze
Very sad and it must be a terrible shock for his teammates. A young family as well. RIP.
According to reports he didn't turn up for Breakfast so some of his team mates went up to his room, smashed in the door and found him on the bed.
Reminder to live everyday well, shocking stuff. Terribly sad.
So sad to think he won’t see his baby growing up and his baby will grow up without its father
Very sad thing to hear and RIP.
And @Fortitude and @BAMSOLA,med student here and to answer your question without being too geeky, athletes are prone to Sudden Cardiac Death.
They may have an undiagnosed Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, ( which is commonly inherited )
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, although not usually fatal, is the most common cause of heart-related sudden death in people under 30. It leads to Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
It's the most common identifiable cause of sudden death in athletes.
And @Fortitude and @BAMSOLA,med student here and to answer your question without being too geeky, athletes are prone to Sudden Cardiac Death.
They may have an undiagnosed Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, ( which is commonly inherited )
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, although not usually fatal, is the most common cause of heart-related sudden death in people under 30. It leads to Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
It's the most common identifiable cause of sudden death in athletes.
RIP Davide.
Christ, that's absolutely terrible! All thoughts with his wife and family, especially as they seemingly just had a new born :/
Always hits a bit harder when it's a young athlete. Young fit and a hero. Tragic RIP
Absolutely awful. Sadly I had to experience someone passing away in such fashion.
Terrible! He was still young and a rather good CB
Absolutely horrific RIP
My heart goes out to him, his family and his poor team mates.
RIPMy heart goes out to him, his family and his poor team mates.
Terrible news. These sudden deaths always hit me. RIP.
Terrible news, what happened??
Likely to be something like ‘adult sudden death syndrome’ which is usually an undiagnosed heart problem
31 is no age to die, so sad.
Sky are reporting he had an heart attack.
Edit , Sorry Sky reporting that Italian media reported he died of an heart attack.
Sky are reporting he had an heart attack.
Edit , Sorry Sky reporting that Italian media reported he died of an heart attack.
Shocking news
Live your life while you can.
Live your life while you can.
Too young to go. You gotta wonder what dreadful condition takes one away at such an age.
Hope his family recovers from this terrible loss.
Hope his family recovers from this terrible loss.
RIP. 31 is no age to go. If an apparently healthy fit sportsman can die in his sleep, God help the rest of us. As a religious person, it also reminds me how close we are to death. feck.
Rest in peace.
We were linked with him under Mancini.
RIP Davide.
RIP Davide.
Sounds likely, however the most worrying thing is that Serie A has had a heart screening program in place since at least the mid 90's I believe and its how Kanu's heart valve issue was picked up whilst he was at Inter.
This is unbelievable, tragic news.
RIP
RIP
RIP. Died way too young.
Crazy how these things just happen to athletes who presumably have their health checked and re-checked all the time.. Shame for the family.
Perhaps you know, any idea if this is more common amongst athletes than ‘regular’ healthy people? Often wondered whether it’s like cars, a highly tuned engine will outperform a standard one, but would be more susceptible to failure due to the higher stresses of essentially similar componentary.
Sad news in any case, hope his little one gets told lots of great stories about who his dad was.
His family has been thrown upside down.
Rip.
Rip.
Awful news. We take life for granted when it's so precious.
RIP Astori.
RIP Astori.
Tragic news. Apparently he had a two week old child as well, which makes it even worse.
Out of nothing in that age with a family left behind. Horrible news.
RiP
RiP
I suspect it’s more that we hear about it more because they’re in the public eye. I suspect there are lots of ordinary joes passing away with similar symptoms
RIP. Really sad news.
Just a bit. He has a 2 week old son.
RIP. Can't imagine what the family are going through.
And it is still isn't like it's happening very often in athletes either, so makes sense that if the rate was similar in regular people you wouldn't have many if any cases around you.
What a tragedy. He was supposed to play today and he's no longer there. I can't even imagine what his teammates and family are going through.
I first heard about that condition, when after a terrible half marathon a few years back (having previously done loads well), I was basically "gone" from half way and pretty much collapssed over the line and spent 30mins in the med tent.
They put me under tonnes of tests for a whole year, with this condition above being their real fear. One where you can just suddenly "Go". They actually made me haul my old parents in to see if they had it, as per your comment on inheritance.
I suppose the difficulty is it's not always that easy to see from tests if someone has this condition, as when you're "very fit" your readings will be different to "normal" people, your heart can enlarge and suchlike. It took a second MRI a good 6months on for them to finally give me the all clear.
Such a tragedy though. An ex class mate died in his sleep at 32, which was a major shock. The "real" reason for that came to light a year or so after though, which were not condition related at all, but an unfortunate "lifestyle" choice he'd taken under stress.
Am sure there's nothing like that with a super fit, top class pro footballer though.
Always a bit strange and scary when a seemingly healthy person in the prime of life just dies in their sleep.
So sad for his family.
So sad for his family.
Wow, this is confronting. So bloody sad, poor man.