The captain of Italy's Fiorentina football team has been found dead in a hotel room.
In a statement published on its website, Fiorentina said: "Fiorentina are profoundly shaken and forced to announce that their captain Davide Astori has died.
"For this terrible and delicate situation - and above all out of respect for his family - we appeal to the sensitivity of the media."
A club spokesman said he could not give a cause of death ahead of an autopsy but Italian media reported that Astori died of a heart attack during the night.
The 31-year-old, who has a two-year-old daughter, was staying in an Udine hotel to prepare for Sunday's match against Udinese, which has been postponed.
All of today's Serie A fixtures have been cancelled following the tragedy.
