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Italian skier Matteo Franzoso dead at 25 after training crash in Chile
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Italian skier Matteo Franzoso died just days before his 26th birthday after he sustained a serious head injury in a crash during training in Chile over the weekend, officials confirmed this week.
The Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) released a statement confirming the death of 25-year-old Franzoso, who was fatally injured Saturday when he crashed during a training session in La Parva, approximately 30 miles outside Santiago, Chile.
Matteo Franzoso of Italy competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup men’s downhill in Kitzbuehel, Austria, on Jan. 25, 2025. (Severin Aichbauer/SEPA.Media /Getty Images)
According to officials, Franzoso crashed into a fence while attempting a small jump. He was “immediately” reached by an air ambulance and taken to an intensive care unit, where he was put into a medically induced coma.
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FISI said Monday that he died as a result of the head injury and a resulting cerebral edema. His 26th birthday was Tuesday.
“This is a tragedy for the family and for our sport,” FISI president Flavio Roda said in a statement. “It’s a tragedy that brings us back to the state of mind we had just under a year ago, when Matilde Lorenzi passed away.”
Matteo Franzoso of Italy reacts after crashing in the men’s downhill of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, on Nov. 26, 2022. (Sergei Belski/USA TODAY Sports)
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Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi died less than a year ago in October 2024 after a fall during a training session. She was 19.
“It’s absolutely essential to do everything possible to ensure that such incidents never happen again,” Roda’s statement continued. “In this sad and painful moment, I want to tell all athletes and coaches, in every sport, that the Federation is by their side and that they will find all the support they need. I ask for the utmost respect for Matteo’s family, to whom we will remain close in every way necessary.”
Italy’s Matteo Franzoso competes during a men’s World Cup super-G skiing race, Dec. 4, 2022, in Beaver Creek, Colorado. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
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Franzoso won a super-G race on the second-tier Europa Cup circuit in 2021, having finished fourth in the downhill at the World Junior Championships in 2020. He competed in 17 World Cup races — 11 super-Gs and six downhills. His best World Cup result was 28th in a super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo in January 2023.
Franzoso was training with Italian team standouts Dominik Paris, Christof Innerhofer, Mattia Casse and others ahead of the Milan-Cortina Olympics in February.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Inter Miami forward Luis Suárez will be suspended for the final game in the Round 1 MLS playoff best-of-three series against Nashville SC.
Suárez earned the one-game ban for kicking Nashville’s Andy Nájar in the second half of the match on Nov. 1 at Geodis Park, where Inter Miami lost 2-1. At the time of the incident, the referee did not issue the player a yellow or red card.
“The MLS Disciplinary Committee has suspended Inter Miami CF forward Luis Suárez for one match and fined Suárez an undisclosed amount under Disciplinary Committee Parameter 3 for violent conduct in the 71st minute of Inter Miami’s match against Nashville SC on November 1st. Suárez will serve his one-match suspension on November 8 during Miami’s match against Nashville SC,” the MLS Disciplinary Committee said in a statement.
Major League Soccer rules allow, however, for postgame disciplinary action to be enforced when a match official fails to issue a card for an offense on the field.
Suárez will now serve his second suspension from MLS action in 2025, after initially receiving a three-game ban for spitting on a member of the Seattle Sounders‘ staff following the Leagues Cup final on Aug. 31.
“Inter Miami CF accepts and respects the decision made by the MLS Disciplinary Committee,” the club said in a statement on Wednesday. At the same time, the club wishes to express its concern about the precedent set by re-refereeing a play that had already been judged by the match officials and VAR, and its confidence that the same standard will be applied in the future to all on-field situations, in any match and involving any team.”
Inter Miami will now enter the decisive final game of the playoff series without Suárez, as the team looks to qualify to the next round of the postseason. The Round 1 series is tied 1-1 after Inter Miami won the first game but lost the second.
THE CHAMPIONS!
We are back with some UEFA Champions League action as we get the second day of Matchday 4 underway with some great matches, such as Manchester City vs. Borussia Dortmund, Club Brugge vs. Barcelona, and Newcastle United vs. Athletic Club.
Enjoy live updates of all of Wednesday’s matches.
The women’s college volleyball season is in the stretch run. We will run weekly updates on the field of 64 until it’s officially revealed by the selection committee on Nov. 30 (6 p.m. ET, ESPN).
There are 31 automatic bids with 33 at-large teams chosen by the NCAA volleyball committee. Volleyball seeds the top eight teams in each region, and the top four in each region serve as first- and second-round hosts. The rest of the bracket is filled out to balance it competitively and geographically. The highest-remaining seeds also host the regionals, and the 2025 Final Four is in Kansas City, Missouri, on Dec. 18 with the finals on Dec. 21.
Bracket watch
Halloween weekend was a scary one for previously unbeaten Texas with a pair of losses. The Longhorns lost their grip on the SEC race after falling to Texas A&M in five sets and then suffered a sweep to Kentucky. That further solidified Nebraska’s spot as the No. 1 overall team in the country. The Cornhuskers, who haven’t lost a set since mid-September, are the only undefeated team left in the country. Meanwhile, Texas did not fall off the top line. With a No. 2 RPI ranking, the country’s top-rated schedule and eight top-25 RPI wins, the Longhorns remain a firm No. 1 seed. The win for the Wildcats did catapult them to the top line. Kentucky is unbeaten in conference play with four matches to play.
Top seedings
No. 1 seeds: Nebraska, Kentucky, Texas, Pittsburgh
No. 2 seeds: Stanford, Texas A&M, Purdue, Arizona State
No. 3 seeds: Louisville, SMU, Creighton, Minnesota
No. 4 seeds: Indiana, Colorado, USC, BYU
No. 5 seeds: Miami, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Kansas
No. 6 seeds: Tennessee, TCU, Iowa State, Baylor
No. 7 seeds: Penn State, Florida, Xavier, UTEP
No. 8 seeds: Missouri, UCLA, Michigan, South Dakota State
Rest of the field (alphabetical): American, Auburn, Ball State, Campbell, Coppin State, Cornell, Dayton, East Tennessee State, Fairfield, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Jacksonville, James Madison, Kansas State, Long Island, Marquette, UMBC, Michigan State, Morehead State, Northern Arizona, Northern Iowa, Northern Kentucky, Prairie View A&M, Rice, San Diego, South Florida, Stephen F. Austin, UC Davis, Utah State, Utah Valley, Western Kentucky, Winthrop
(The rest of the field teams wouldn’t be seeded)
Bubble watch
Marquette fell to the fringes of the bubble with losses in three of its past four. Auburn strung together three wins since the last Bracketology to sneak into the field. With Texas A&M and Texas on the schedule in the next week, the Tigers’ stay in the field could be a short one. Cincinnati lost three times to probable NCAA tournament teams (Kansas, Baylor and TCU) to tumble out of the field, but with Colorado, Iowa State and Arizona State still to come, the opportunities to get back are plenty.
Last Four In: Illinois, Michigan State, Auburn, Marquette
First Four Out: Cincinnati, Florida State, Villanova, Arizona
Next Four Out: Oregon, Georgia, Utah, Tulsa
Conference breakdown
Big Ten: 11
Big 12: 8
ACC: 7
SEC: 7
Big East: 3
American: 2
CUSA: 2
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