R.I.P Antonio Puerta

By: Bob | August 28th, 2007

There is sad news out of Spain where Antonio Puerta has passed away. The 22-year-old collapsed after suffering a heart attack during Sevilla’s game against Getafe on Saturday. It is always difficult to have someone taken away while in the prime of their life and it is even sadder to learn that Puerta and his girlfriend were expecting a child next month. Tuesday’s Champions League match between Sevilla and AEK Athens has been postponed. My thoughts go out to Puerta’s friends and family.

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• AJ |  August 28th, 2007 at 8:17 am

  
  
  

  This sort of stuff shouldn’t happen… RIP Antonio.

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• bloodbath |  August 28th, 2007 at 8:22 am

  
  
  

  I feel it for his girlfriend and family…a young 22 yrs old,he barley lived his life and has to leave already.Plus he won’t be able to ever hold his son/daughter with his his very own hands.Sometimes all you can do is sit and ponder about how some lives are taken at such times.Truly sad stuff…

  Posted from Trinidad And Tobago

  

• JP |  August 28th, 2007 at 8:27 am

  
  
  

  Sad to hear, even tougher to swallow knowing about them expecting a child. Thoughts go out to his family, team, and the soccer community.

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• Ian |  August 28th, 2007 at 8:37 am

  
  
  

  Terrible thing. It’s been a rough week for football, with Puerta’s death, the death of Ray Jones from QPR, and the (admittedly less football-related) slaying of 11-year-old Everton supporter Rhys Jones in Liverpool. All are tragedies.

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Martha |  August 28th, 2007 at 9:02 am

  
  
  

  Absolutely awful. Also troubling to hear he’s had problems before; I hope the club doesn’t end up being implicated in this by not giving him appropriate medical care.

  Posted from United States

  

• Corey |  August 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

  
  
  

  Descanse en el querido amigo de la paz

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• Laurie |  August 28th, 2007 at 2:33 pm

  
  
  

  The saddest part for me is that if they’d recognized that he’d gone into cardiac arrest the first time, instead of treating it as a seizure and trying to prevent the nonexistent threat of him “swallowing his tongue,” the second arrest that apparently caused the “postanoxic encephalopathy and a multiple failure of his organs caused by the prolonged cardiac arrest” might not have happened.

  A tragedy all the way around.

  Posted from United States

  

• botswana |  August 30th, 2007 at 5:26 am

  
  
  

  god be withyour soul . i hope ur kid grows up to know that u were a great man r.i.p god loves u

  Posted from United States

  

• Joana |  August 30th, 2007 at 8:32 am

  
  
  

  Without words!!! R.I.P.!!! Your son will be proud with you!!! WE MISS YOU, ANTONIO!

  Posted from Bulgaria

  

• Dominik |  August 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

  
  
  

  the football world is crying!!!
  R.I.P
  Munich / Germany

  Posted from Germany

  

• rajput |  August 31st, 2007 at 3:52 pm

  
  
  

  its heartbreaking…..
  may his soul rest in peace!
  you’ll be missed antonio!!!

  Posted from Pakistan

  

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