Mourning in Argentine soccer: Player died after hitting his head against a wall during a match

The world of Argentine football is in mourning and recent news generated shocks and a lot of sadness in Corrientes when a player from the Pedro Ferré club unfortunately died this past Sunday after colliding with a wall during a match between his club and Citrex on a new date valid for the Bella Vista League. The player named Ángel Elías Ojeda was carrying the ball near the baseline when he was marked by an opponent, who cut off the progress of the play.

After this action, Ojeda hit his head squarely against the wall and lay completely flat. on the playing field just 10 minutes into the game in the second half of the match. After the blow, the young player began to suffer from severe convulsions, which generated a reaction from his teammates and rivals on the field of the General San Martín club, where the match took place.

What happened? The referees and personalities talked about it

According to the words of the match referee, Gabriel Beltrán, Ojeda died a few minutes later. despite the fact that an attempt was made to save his life by the doctors who arrived at the scene. “Ferré’s player was with the ball, in a required play on the end line. He threw a cross and had a mark on it. In contact with the Citrex player, the Ferré player could not stop and hit the wall,” explained the principal in conversation with the local channel Ñande Cable.

A journalist from Bella Vista commented on everything that was experienced after the terrible loss of the 23-year-old player old. “There was chaos on the court, it was never thought that this would happen and it happened just at the beginning of the tournament,” said Maxi Latar of Canal F during an interview on Radio Comentó. The journalist commented that Ojeda was a player who played as a midfielder and in turn showed a complaint where he could be seen quite upset by the lack of protection in the area behind the goals.

According to Bella Vista News, who were in charge After disseminating the images of the moment, the player was transferred to the El Salvador Hospital and was diagnosed with severe head trauma, which resulted in a subarachnoid hemorrhage with a subdural hematoma.

There is no protection in areas of the stadium and field

Mauro Villar, another journalist from Bella Vista, let it be known that the medical team did everything they could. in his hands to save Ojeda’s life. “The only thing they could do was perform a CT scan. There was an intention to transfer him to the capital of Corrientes, but there was no time. The ambulance took 15 minutes,” said the chronicler in dialogue with the Noticias Team program on Channel 13 Max in Corrientes.

“There was no ambulance at the event, they had to call for one to come and treat him,” Villar added. Once the death was confirmed, the Pedro Ferré de Bella Vista Social and Sports Club released a statement about this terrible event on its social networks. “Only sadness and pain in our hearts forever Angel,” in the same way there were several statements through social networks to remember the young man, as well as the league: “Deep pain.”

“It is difficult for us, those of the interior, to have the facilities in good condition. We are very amateurs, logically poverty is administered. “You carry it out with a lot of effort and sacrifice,” said the president of the Bella Vista league Cristian Hermosis.

“The truth is that we are very dismayed, we have our minds on the tragic event. Surely there are a lot of things to rethink. Most of the courts have this type of structure, they are 50 years old. It is difficult to find a field that does not have this fence. In the majority of the province of Corrientes they have this structure,” added Hermosis in communication with TN after being questioned about the lack of some type of protection in the areas behind the arches.

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