Jesus de Miguel: Tenerife striker dies after on-field collision


Tenerife and Andorra had been drawing 2-2 seven minutes into stoppage time when the incident occurred.

Owono ran in the direction of the centre circle to clear a protracted ball when his knee appeared to collide with De Miguel.

The striker lay immobile on the pitch as medical employees handled him earlier than he was taken by ambulance from Tenerife’s Estadio Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez to hospital.

Gamers from each groups had been visibly distressed by the incident, with a lot of De Miguel’s team-mates in tears.

The referee confirmed Owono a straight pink card earlier than abandoning the match.

Spanish media, together with Marca, reported De Miguel suffered a cardiac arrest within the ambulance and was resuscitated by paramedics on the best way to hospital.

Andorra, Tenerife’s opponents on Monday, stated: “With damaged hearts and devastated, we need to ship our most honest condolences to the household of Jesus de Miguel, to all his team-mates, associates, and to CD Tenerife.”

Former Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, who co-owns Andorra, stated: “I’m sorry with all my soul. Relaxation in peace, Jesus.”

De Miguel’s former membership, Castellon, stated: “It is laborious to seek out phrases when actuality strikes in such an unfair means.

“We be a part of with all our affection within the grief of his household and family members, whom we embrace in these terribly tough moments and to whom we lengthen our most heartfelt condolences.”

Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, stated: “As we speak, all of us share the horrible ache of an irreparable loss.

“My deepest condolences to his household, family members, team-mates and the entire membership.”

Actual Madrid and France striker Kylian Mbappe wrote on his social media: “A lot unhappiness, there aren’t any phrases.”

The Spanish soccer federation introduced following De Miguel’s loss of life that Tuesday’s Spanish Cup fixtures had been postponed.

Two fixtures within the first spherical of the lads’s Copa del Rey had been attributable to be performed, whereas Espanyol had been set to tackle AS Celtas within the girls’s Copa del Reina competitors.

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