By Reinaldo Oliveros
24 Aug 2024, 17:24 PM EDT
The Uruguayan footballer Nacional JJuan Manuel Izquierdo remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit from the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in São Paulo, where he is “sedated, on mechanical ventilation and under neurological intensive care.”
This was announced on Saturday by the medical center in a statement that was released by the Uruguayan team on its social networks.
There he stressed that the player entered the hospital on August 22 at 8:55 p.m. local time, “in cardiac arrest, of undetermined onset, secondary to an arrhythmia.”
“The hospital immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers, “including the defibrillation procedure, and the patient regained spontaneous circulation. Since then, Juan has been hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit, sedated, on mechanical ventilation and under neurological intensive care,” the text concludes.
Izquierdo fainted on Thursday in the 84th minute of the match between Nacional and São Paulo in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores.
The footballer, who started the match on the bench and came on to play the second half Instead of Sebastián Coates, he fell to the ground and had to be taken out of the stadium in an ambulance.
Following this incident, the Uruguayan club announced in a statement that the 27-year-old defender suffered a cardiac arrhythmia and was admitted to the intensive care center.
This Saturday, the footballer’s partner used her social media to ask people to send “strength and good energy.”
“Juan needs us, I know he is very loved and we are all looking forward to this moment passing. His two-year-old daughter and his eight-day-old son are waiting for him at home. He has a lot of life left to live for. Please pray for him,” she wrote.
This weekend Uruguayan football was suspended after the decision of the Mutual de jugadores to stop the activity and the Uruguayan Football Association moved the second date of the Clausura Tournament to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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