This Monday, unlike the previous two days, There was no official medical report on Juan Izquierdo’s healththe Uruguayan Nacional soccer player who collapsed during a Copa Libertadores match due to cardiac arrest on the field of play and remains hospitalized in São Paulo, Brazil, while the soccer world remains shocked by the situation. It was the Uruguayan consul Marta Echarte, who was at the Israeli Albert Einstein hospital, who provided a worrying scenario: “We have been since early in the morning with (Alejandro) Balbi, the president of Nacional and with the family, wife and parents of Juan and also with the doctors. The situation is very delicate, practically irreversible and well, we are waiting to see what will happen in the next 48 hours.”, he noted.
“It is not encouraging at all, and well, the consulate is ready and willing to act accordingly if the outcome occurs,” he added in a surprising statement, since there were no medical reports that spoke about a worsening of the clinical picture, beyond who remains on respiratory assistance and intubated in intensive care.
And he continued: “Brain damage is the most worrying thing now. We spoke with the doctors and at first it was a cardiac issue, a cardiac arrhythmia, but then it became complicated and there was progression and brain involvement, is what the medical report says. And right now they are giving him respiratory assistance.”
Meanwhile, Uruguayan football is suspended due to Izquierdo’s health. All united praying that the defender can get out of this very brave stop, although the situation is more than complicated.
Hospital visits and disclosure of a history of arrhythmia
This Monday, there were multiple people who came to the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, to accompany Izquierdo’s family and the leaders of Nacional. A while after Consul Echarte, Diego Lugano, idol of San Pablo and former captain of the Uruguay national team, appeared.
Likewise, an essential piece of information that appeared this Monday was the one that revealed Sebastian Bauzadirector of the National Sports Secretariat of Uruguay, who spoke in a talk with the Minuto 1 program of Carve Deportiva that ten years ago they had detected a small arrhythmia in Izquierdo, when he was barely 17 years old.
“In 2014, with the Gol al Futuro program, studies were carried out on Juan Izquierdo. “Juan was 17 years old, he was playing in Cerro and he had a small arrhythmia, something that was reported,” Bauzá pointed out. The Gol al Futuro program is run by the National Sports Secretariat, and “promotes the comprehensive training of youth soccer players and accompanies their personal and professional growth.”
On the other hand, the Nacional players met during the morning at the Ciudad Deportiva Los Céspedes, the club’s training facility, but without the objective of planning a practice. “Our captain (Diego Polenta) was concerned about taking her (Izquierdo’s wife) to the airport, talking to the doctors to see if he could travel with the baby to San Pablo. So, With what head are you going to practice and can you face training? “It’s practically impossible.” Balbi said.
It was also known that the second date of the Uruguayan championship, agreed to be played during the week, was suspended again “reflecting the feelings of all levels of football regarding the delicate situation of the player Juan Izquierdo.”