Source: LifeSiteNews.com
A Uruguayan soccer player has died after collapsing in the 84th minute of a match last week due to a heart-related incident.
Twenty-seven-year-old Juan Izquierdo passed away in a Brazilian hospital in São Paulo on Tuesday night after suffering what officials called a “cardiorespiratory arrest associated with his cardiac arrhythmia.”
Izquierdo, who was married with two children, was rushed to Hospital Albert Einstein last Thursday during a game between his club Nacional and São Paulo at Morumbi Stadium. The fixture was part of the Copa Libertadores tournament. Uruguay has since postponed this coming weekend’s league games….