Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo dies at 27 after collapsing on pitch

Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo died on Tuesday after struggling a cardiac arrhythmia. On Thursday, the participant collapsed on the pitch within the last minutes of a Copa Libertadores conflict as Brazil’s São Paulo hosted his facet, Nacional.

The sport was stopped after Izquierdo fell to the bottom, and an ambulance entered the sphere to hurry him to hospital. Nacional later introduced that he had skilled cardiac arrhythmia and was being handled on the Albert Einstein Hospital’s ICU, however initially mentioned that he was secure.

Nevertheless, later studies confirmed that the situation was affecting his mind, creating stress inside his cranium, and he was on mechanical air flow. His neurological situation turned vital on Monday, and on Tuesday night time, the membership confirmed the participant had handed away.

Izquierdo’s spouse expressed her grief in a message on his Instagram account. “As we speak I needed to bid farewell to my different half, the love of my life,” she wrote. “As we speak part of me is leaving with you.” The couple had a two-year-old daughter and new child son.

Information of Izquierdo’s dying despatched ripples by the footballing world. South American soccer confederation Conmebol and its president Alejandro Dominguez supplied condolences, as did the Argentine Soccer Federation, golf equipment comparable to Boca Juniors and River Plate and even French giants Paris Saint Germain.

Worldwide star Luis Suárez, who performed with Izquierdo when he returned to Nacional in 2022, shared a message on his Instagram. “Ache and unhappiness, it’s onerous to elucidate. Might you relaxation in peace and wishing loads of power for your loved ones and mates,” he wrote.

On Monday, the Uruguayan soccer league introduced the suspension of matchdays two and three on account of Izquierdo’s situation.

A number of gamers have skilled severe coronary heart situations on the pitch lately. In 2021, Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed throughout a Euro 2021 conflict between Denmark and Finland. The participant acquired swift medical consideration and was in a position to proceed enjoying professionally.

Argentina striker Sergio “Kun” Agüero was compelled to retire after feeling breath shortness and dizziness throughout a recreation between FC Barcelona and Alavés the identical yr. He was hospitalized for a number of days after it was found that he had suffered from arrhythmia, with docs recommending he formally retire from skilled soccer.