Sunday, August 5, 2012
Nigerian Football player dies of cadiac arrest on the pitch.
Henry Chinonso Ihelewere, a Nigerian footballer has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a friendly match between Romanian second division teams CS Delta Tulcea and FC Balotesti on Sunday, local media said.
21 year old, Ihelewere, collapsed with no one around him only 15 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute.
He was taken to hospital but he never regained consciousness.
The striker had been playing in the Balkan country since 2007 when he joined Farul Constanta.
“What can I say? We’re all shocked,” Universitatea Cluj boss Cristian Dulca, who previously coached the Nigerian, was quotedas saying. “It’s a tragic day for Romanian football.
“I trained him for a year and a halfand I can tell you he was a real example in training. He could’ve become a very good player.”
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Cadiac arrest,
football,
nigerian,
romania
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