Edoardo Bove sees the light: tests ok. Here's why he can hope to return to play

Florence, 27 June 2025 – “I want to play again in June”. Edoardo Bove has never had any hesitations , not even when, last February at the Sanremo Festival , he spoke publicly again just over two months after the cardiac arrest that struck him during Fiorentina-Inter . Now, however, there is a possibility that he will return to the field. In Italy it would be complicated , due to the law that prohibits competitive sports activity for those - like him - who have a subcutaneous defibrillator implanted, but abroad the possibility is concrete. In recent months, the 23-year-old midfielder had undergone a series of tests with the aim of evaluating his condition and establishing when he could possibly start again. He did so in Ancona, at the Torrette hospital (a center specialized in the study of cardiac pathologies), where he was hospitalized for about a week in mid-March. A fundamental step whose responses have arrived in the last few hours and have given a negative result (to be understood, in medical jargon, as good news): all the medical tests carried out are in fact going in one direction only, that which should bring Edoardo back to being a professional footballer soon. Now the 2002-born player only needs one last qualification test , but it would be a formality , although it should be taken with all due caution. Then, in the event of a green light, it will be time to decide his future. And to understand which paths the midfielder will be able to take, who last season with Fiorentina - before the stop - had put together 15 appearances, one goal and four assists between the league and the Conference League.

On July 1st, Edoardo will return to Roma , as stipulated in his contract since he has not reached the number of appearances necessary for Fiorentina to make him redemption mandatory. However, the two clubs will leave the final decision to the player , who now has three options: move abroad (where, with the regulations in force in some countries, England first and foremost, he could play immediately), stay in the capital or return to Florence on a new loan , aware however of the risk of having to wait even longer before being able to return to the pitch. The current regulations, as mentioned, would allow him to play in the Premier League or other countries without obstacles while in Italy, however, the situation is more complex, despite the fact that some changes to the sports prophylaxis protocol have been under consideration for some time. And even if Bove were allowed to remove the defibrillator that was implanted in him (an unlikely hypothesis) it would not be so obvious that a club doctor would grant him sports fitness after what happened last December 1st. This is why the foreign trail seems the most plausible to date.