Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo died on Tuesday after struggling a cardiac arrhythmia. On Thursday, the participant collapsed on the pitch within the closing 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 sector 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 stated that he was steady.

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 grew to become important 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. “Right now I needed to bid farewell to my different half, the love of my life,” she wrote. “Right now part of me is leaving with you.” The couple had a two-year-old daughter and new child son.

Information of Izquierdo’s demise despatched ripples by means of the footballing world. South American soccer confederation Conmebol and its president Alejandro Dominguez supplied condolences, as did the Argentine Soccer Federation, golf equipment resembling 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 exhausting to elucidate. Might you relaxation in peace and wishing a whole lot of power for your loved ones and pals,” 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 critical coronary heart situations on the pitch in recent times. In 2021, Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed throughout a Euro 2021 conflict between Denmark and Finland. The participant obtained swift medical consideration and was capable of proceed taking part in professionally.

Argentina striker Sergio “Kun” Agüero was pressured 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.