Edoardo Bove at Wimbledon: the cheering and the emotion for Cobolli, his childhood friend

London, 7 July 2025 – An image that also moved Fiorentina fans. Edoardo Bove, now a former Viola midfielder but still very attached to Florence, was in London to support Fabio Cobolli in the Wimbledon tournament. The Roman tennis player has reached a particularly prestigious goal: the quarterfinals of the event, where he will face none other than Djokovic. Cobolli won against the Croatian Cilic in the fourth set.

And now he is giving himself an incredible stage, that of the challenge with one of the greats of the racket. In this period Bove is in London to support the tennis player closely. The two, both Romans, have been friends since childhood. Bove was sitting in the area of ​​Cobolli's entourage, next to the father and brother of the tennis player.

The footballer hugged his childhood friend at the end of the match, for what is a real daydream. Bove and Cobolli met in the youth teams of Roma when the tennis player still had to choose the sport of his life. He was quite good at football and for a while he practiced both sports, before dedicating himself exclusively to the racket. The friendship with Bove was born like this. Cobolli followed the footballer in his difficult period, after the illness during Fiorentina Inter in December 2024 and the abandonment, at least until now, of football after the installation of a subcutaneous pacemaker. Each has always supported the other. And at Wimbledon Bove could not miss.

Bove, who has an inseparable bond with Florence , returned to Roma in June after the end of his loan. His fate is still uncertain. He would like to be able to play again but the medicine has yet to express itself on this. Fiorentina, for its part, is ready to welcome him into the technical staff. In recent months the player has followed the team from the bench just like an assistant coach. But Bove's professional future is still to be written. In the meantime, in this dream July, he is next to his great friend.

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