{"id":383379,"date":"2026-01-22T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:46:09","slug":"watford-hornets-sign-former-roma-midfielder-edoardo-bove-on-long-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383379\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford: Hornets sign former Roma midfielder Edoardo Bove on long-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watford have signed former Roma and Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove on a five-and-a-half-year deal.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old collapsed on the pitch two years ago during a loan spell with Fiorentina and was taken to intensive care.<\/p>\n

He was later fitted with a cardiac defibrillator, and has not played a senior game since then.<\/p>\n

Footballers are barred from playing in Italy with a defibrillator and Roma released him from his contract to allow him to find a club abroad.<\/p>\n

Bove told the club website, external<\/a> he was “excited” at the challenge of returning to action and helping the Hornets teach the top flight.<\/p>\n

“I have been eager to get back on the pitch, and doing so with a historic club like Watford fills me with immense pride,” said Bove.<\/p>\n

“I am excited to train with my new team-mates and to play, and I cannot wait to show my gratitude for the trust that has been placed in me.”<\/p>\n

Valon Behrami, Watford’s assistant sporting director, maintained the former Italy Under-21 international has a number of options available to him.<\/p>\n

“We are delighted Edoardo has chosen us over many options he had,” said Behrami.<\/p>\n

“Edoardo is a top, proven talent and he is here to help us fulfil the objective of the owner which is to challenge for a return to the Premier League.”<\/p>\n

Christian Eriksen similarly left Inter Milan in 2021 after having a defibrillator fitted following his cardiac arrest while playing for Denmark in the 2020 European Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford have signed former Roma and Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove on a five-and-a-half-year deal. The 23-year-old collapsed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-383379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}