{"id":122870,"date":"2024-08-28T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/juan-izquierdo-uruguayan-footballer-dies-aged-27-after-collapsing-on-pitch\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:50:29","slug":"juan-izquierdo-uruguayan-footballer-dies-aged-27-after-collapsing-on-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/juan-izquierdo-uruguayan-footballer-dies-aged-27-after-collapsing-on-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Izquierdo: Uruguayan footballer dies aged 27 after collapsing on pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Uruguayan footballer has died at the age of 27, five days after collapsing during a match in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Juan Izquierdo was playing in a Copa Libertadores game in Sao Paulo when he went into cardiac arrest on Thursday.<\/p>\n

His club Nacional announced his death in a post on X, saying they were “in grief for his irreplaceable loss”.<\/p>\n

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“It is with deepest pain and shock in our hearts that Club Nacional de Football announces the passing of our beloved player Juan Izquierdo,” the club posted.<\/p>\n

The defender died on Tuesday at Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein, which said he had suffered “cardiorespiratory arrest associated with his cardiac arrhythmia”.<\/p>\n

Doctors said on Monday that Izquierdo was under neurological critical care and still on a ventilator, after an earlier statement that he had shown “a progression of his brain damage and an increase of intracranial pressure”.<\/p>\n

Izquierdo was in his second spell with Nacional having helped them to a first league title in more than a century in 2023.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Dominguez, president of South American football’s governing body CONMEBOL, said the football community on the continent was in mourning.<\/p>\n

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Describing it as a “sad day for football”, opponents Sao Paulo said on X they were “deeply saddened” by his death.<\/p>\n

Uruguayan media said he is survived by his wife and two-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

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Other high-profile footballers have collapsed suddenly after suffering from cardiac arrest in recent years.<\/p>\n

Christian Eriksen was stretchered off the pitch<\/a> <\/strong>after collapsing during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match. He returned eight months later<\/a><\/strong> when he came on for Brentford in a Premier League match.<\/p>\n

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Luton Town’s Tom Lockyer said he “literally died”<\/a><\/strong> for two minutes and 40 seconds after collapsing during a Premier League match in December 2023.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has since had a defibrillator fitted in his chest and has returned to Luton’s training ground<\/a><\/strong> “to start the next phase of his rehabilitation” this month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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