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Soccer Star : Antonio Puerta dies after on field heart attack
29 Aug2007
SEVILLA midfielder Antonio Puerta died yesterday, three days after he collapsed during the Spanish League opener against Getafe. (full article and video after the jump)
And just hours after the Spanish international’s death, Leicester City’s Clive Clarke collapsed at halftime in the locker room during the English League Cup match at Nottingham Forest, forcing the game to be abandoned.
Puerta, 22, was able to walk from the field, but suffered a heart attack in the locker room and at least one more in Seville hospital’s emergency department on Sunday.
A star in Sevilla’s successful UEFA Cup defence last season and the club’s top-three league finish, Puerta collapsed about half an hour into his club’s 4-1 victory.
At Forest, where Australians Patrick Kisnorbo and James Wesolowski were also playing for Leicester, fans were told by the rival managers what had happened
The game was called off as Clarke was taken to a nearby hospital.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Clive and his family," Leicester chief executive Tim Davies said.
"He is not very well, but at least he’s talking, which he wasn’t at one point."
Puerta is not the first footballer to die of a heart attack.
In January 2004, Benfica’s Hungarian international striker Miklos Feher died from a heart attack during a Portuguese League match. A year later Portuguese Hugo Cunha, of first division Leiria, also died following cardiac arrest.
In 2003 Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe collapsed and died while playing in the Confederations Cup tournament in France.
And Colombian teenager Victor Alfonso Guerrero collapsed and died during training in April last year. source
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