Former Serbia international-turned-coach Sinisa Mihajlovic has died of leukemia at the age of 53, his family said in a statement on Friday.
His wife Arianna and their five children deplored in this press release to the Italian agency Ansa the “unjust and premature death” of the player who played in Italy (AS Roma, Lazio Rome, Sampdoria Genoa and Inter Milan) before becoming a coach. in Bologna.
He was ‘a unique man and an extraordinary professional’ who announced his illness in the summer of 2019 when he had been coaching Bologna since January of the same year, they added.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed “an example of courage for those who face illness”.
“You fought like a lion on the pitch and in life,” she wrote on her Twitter account.
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