Apparently the ambulance was blocked from entering the pitch by a police car. They had to break the windows of the police car to move it, costing valuable time. What an unlucky sod...

They had all the necessary physicians and medical equipment at the stadium, and were working on him from the moment he collapsed. it sounds pretty much like he died instantly.

That makes the second young, seemingly-fit professional footballer to have a heart attack on the pitch mid-game in the past month. Although most leagues have mandatory cardiac testing of players, maybe they need better testing?

R.I.P.

What they are doing now surely doesn't seem to be enough.

I've always heard the Italian league were exceptionally good about cardiac testing, though. I remember Kanu having a heart defect diagnosed when he transferred from Ajax to Inter. He'd been playing for years with that defect, undetected, before that.

You can't help but wonder if doping might be involved in these tragedies... Several retired players from the seventies died of heart attacks before the age of 50, and that era was notorious for doping in football.