On Tuesday, a wave of sorrow swept through the football world after the death of Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel on the field. He suffered a cardiac arrest following an on-field collision in a Spanish second-division match, his club said on Tuesday. De Miguel was challenging for the ball near midfield on Monday when he was struck in the chest by onrushing Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono during added time.
Football is the Beautiful Game. It can sometimes be tragic too. Owono was shown a straight red card for the incident.
He was 30.
Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo of Nacional died in Brazil on Tuesday, five days after collapsing from a heart attack during a match against Sao Paulo, his club announced. This incident happened in India. The incident happened three months after he had helped Sevilla win the UEFA Cup.
De Miguel was taken to hospital and the match, tied 2-2, was abandoned after the incident. Tenerife said in a statement that De Miguel died at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday. The Brazilian, playing for Dempo Goa, collided with onrushing Mohun Bagan goalkeeper Subrata Paul in the 2004 Federation Cup final in Bengaluru. Spain international Antonio Puerta, 22, collapsed while playing for Sevilla in a La Liga match against Getafe and died three days later. The midfielder collapsed while playing for his country, Cameroon, against Colombia in the semi-finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup at the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, France, on June 26, 2003.
The club, located in Spain’s Canary Islands, said it was “heartbroken.
The 27-year-old collapsed in the 84th minute of a match for a place in the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores, the most prestigious club competition in South America.
He was taken by ambulance to the Albert Einstein Hospital, where physicians said he suffered a “cardiac arrest of undetermined onset, secondary to an arrhythmia.”
