Lazio captain Ciro Immobile paid a special visit to a young goalkeeper who is waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
The young man, called Giulio, plays in goal for the Under-16s ASD Città di Cerveteri squad and is a lifelong Lazio supporter.
He has a rare auto-immune disease and has been in the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome for six weeks waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
When Immobile was told that Giulio was a Lazio fan, he went to visit the young player.
Lazio are also helping to organise the search for a suitable donor, who must be aged between 18 and 36.
Bone marrow aplasia or aplastic anaemia is a disease that causes the red bone marrow to disappear and stop creating red blood cells, white cells and platelets.
Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic’s life was saved by a bone marrow transplant two years ago when he was diagnosed with acute leukaemia.