Aston Villa Manager Dean Smith’s Father Dies From Coronavirus | Football News

The daddy of Aston Villa supervisor Dean Smith has died after contracting the coronavirus, the English Premier League membership introduced past due Wednesday. Villa mentioned 79-year-old Ron Smith, a lifelong fan of the Birmingham aspect, have been affected by COVID-19 for 4 weeks. “The Aston Villa circle of relatives are saddened to announce that Ron Smith, the daddy of our present head trainer Dean, has kicked the bucket on the age of 79,” mentioned a membership remark. “Ron, who had just lately been dwelling in a care house after being identified with dementia six years in the past, shriveled coronavirus 4 weeks in the past and after a brief spell in health facility kicked the bucket along with his circle of relatives at his aspect.

“A lifelong supporter, Ron used to be a steward at Villa Park for a few years and handed on his love of the membership all the way down to his kids.

“In addition to being a typical at house video games, Ron used to be additionally there to witness that biggest of days in Would possibly 1982 when Villa lifted the Eu Cup in Rotterdam.

“The ideas of everybody on the soccer membership are recently with Dean and his circle of relatives at this maximum distressing of instances and we’d kindly ask for the circle of relatives’s privateness to be revered.”

Smith isn’t the one Premier League boss to lose an in depth relative to the virus, with COVID-19 additionally claiming the lifetime of the 82-year-old mom of Manchester Town supervisor Pep Guardiola remaining month.