Sevilla's Spanish international defender Antonio Puerta died on
Tuesday after suffering a heart attack during a Spanish league
match on Saturday, Spanish media reported.
The 22-year-old had been in "very critical" condition in the
intensive care unit of Seville's Virgen del Rocio hospital where he
had been hooked up to a life support machine, the hospital said
earlier in a statement.
Puerta collapsed after half an hour of Sevilla's 4-1 win over
Getafe on the opening day of the Spanish season.
He was able to walk gingerly to the dressing rooms where he
collapsed a second time before being taken to hospital.
In January 2004 Benfica's Hungarian international striker Miklos
Feher died during a Portuguese league match from a heart attack
just seven months after Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe
collapsed and died while playing in the Confederations Cup
tournament in France
