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Daniele Proch, NCFC’s rookie from Italy has coronavirus lessons to share from home

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From his apartment in the Triangle, Daniele Proch plays cards online for a few hours a day with his family back in Italy, where they are hunkered down a few hours from the epicenter of that country's coronavirus disaster zone.

The North Carolina FC midfielder and former Duke all-American knows all too well what happened back home, where hospitals were overwhelmed and the death toll skyrocketed. Which is why he's trying to spread the lessons of that experience here.

"I tell my roommates and my teammates that it's more serious than we think, because now we kind of have the luck to look at other countries and learn from their mistakes," Proch said.