“He lost consciousness and is sedated”

It was two and a half hours of anxiety in which Juan Izquierdo It was a trend on social networks. The image of him collapsing in the middle of the playing field of the Morumbí stadium during the rematch between San Pablo and Nacional of Uruguay for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores caused stupor. After that time, the Montevideo club issued a statement in which it revealed that he was “stable” in a hospital in the Brazilian city, while the president of the institution, Alejandro Balbiprovided more details about the desperate situation that the entire delegation experienced.

“I’m going to repeat to you what I heard from the doctors. Juan is sedated, we have to wait for it to take effect, and once that process is finished, begin the evaluations of all kinds that are done in this type of episode. The neurological ones, cardiac, thoracic, I am repeating by heart what I heard from the doctors”Balbi explained at the door of the Israeli Albert Einstein hospital, where the 27-year-old soccer player was transferred after his evacuation by ambulance from the playing field.

“Yes, he lost consciousness. He first regained consciousness in the ambulance, but when he arrived at the hospital for a few minutes he lost consciousness again. There he was immediately sedated and stabilized”completed what happened to Izquierdo from the time he was rescued on the grass until he was admitted to the intensive care service of the healthcare center.

“A heart attack has been ruled out, but it was obviously a cardiac episode, although on a smaller scale”he added.

“Within the horror that we are experiencing, we are in a first-level hospital, Juan is being very well cared for by the best doctors in all areas. We are with Dr. Arzuaga and Seba Eguren,” he said to complement the club’s official statement. that had been broadcast a while before on social networks.

“Juan Izquierdo suffered a cardiac arrhythmia during the match against San Pablo. He is being treated in the CTI of the Albert Einstein hospital. He is currently stable and remains under observation. We will continue to update the information”was what the Montevideo team published, through their official X account (formerly Twitter).

In the initial itinerary, Nacional was going to return by charter flight to Montevideo. However, due to the complexity of the situation there was a change of plans. Sebastián Coates -who was replaced by Izquierdo at halftime-, Mejía, M. Pereyra, Lozano, Bentancourt and Zabala will remain in Brazil along with the coaching staff led by Martin Lasarte to follow the situation of his partner.