Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo dies in hospital days after collapsing during game in Brazil
Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo has died at a hospital in Brazil five days after collapsing during a game in Sao Paulo
By MAURICIO SAVARESE
Published - Aug 28, 2024, 12:18 PM ET
Last Updated - Aug 28, 2024, 12:18 PM EDT
SAO PAULO (AP) — Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo died Tuesday at a hospital in Brazil five days after collapsing during a game at Sao Paulo. He was 27.
Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said in a statement that the Nacional defender died at 9:38 p.m. local time following “cardiorespiratory arrest associated with his cardiac arrhythmia.”
Izquierdo collapsed last Thursday in a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Nacional and Sao Paulo at the Brazilian city’s Morumbi Stadium.
Uruguay's air force said one of its planes will transport his coffin to Montevideo later on Wednesday.
