- The defender is in a ‘secure situation’ and is ‘below statement’ in hospital
- The 27-year-old suffered a ‘cardiac arrhythmia’ and collapsed within the 84th minute
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Nacional defender Juan Izquierdo, 27, collapsed on the pitch throughout Sao Paulo’s Copa Libertadores spherical of 16 tie towards Sao Paulo in Brazil on Thursday.
The defender was rapidly attended by medics on the pitch and was taken to hospital after struggling a ‘cardiac arrythmia’ – an anomaly of the guts’s rhythm.
The 27-year-old Uruguayan participant had fallen to the bottom within the 84th minute, with gamers from either side calling for medical groups onto the pitch.
Nacional have issued an replace on his situation on-line, stating that Izquierdo ‘was secure’ and ‘stays below statement’ on the ICU on the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
‘Juan Izquierdo suffered an irregular heartbeat in the course of the match towards Sao Paulo,’ Nacional posted on X (previously Twitter).
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‘He’s being handled on the Intensive Care Unit of the Albert Einstein Hospital. He’s at the moment in secure situation and stays below statement.
The assertion added: ‘Energy, Juan!’
Nacional had gone 2-0 down within the match with Damian Bobadilla scoring within the first half earlier than Jonathan Calleri adopted up with the edges second within the forty seventh minute, with Sao Paulo happening to safe a berth within the quarter-final of the event towards Botafogo.
Through the 83rd minute, Izquierdo started to stumble earlier than collapsing to the bottom. Medical groups rapidly arrived to deal with the footballer, earlier than an ambulance entered the pitch.
After a pause in play, the sport resumed, with Emiliano Velazquez approaching to the pitch as his substitute.
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