Nigerian Player Collapses On The Pitch & Dies (Pictured)
pitch and died after playing just a few minutes of a
local friendly in Malaysia on Saturday, reports
said.
Oniya, 30, went down about three minutes into the
game for T-Team and was pronounced dead at
hospital around half-an-hour later, the club's chief
executive told The Star newspaper.
CEO Syahrizan Mohd Zain said Oniya, who was in
his first season with second-tier T-Team, had
barely touched the ball in the friendly with Super
League side Kelantan in Kota Bharu.
"There was no hard running and it was a slow
tempo match. It's only a friendly game," Syahrizan
was quoted as saying.
"The match was called off in the 60th minute when
we received a call from the hospital that Oniya
had died."
Deaths on the pitch, often from heart failure, are
not unheard of and Belgium lost two players in
two weeks in late April and May.
The most prominent case was Cameroon
midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe, who collapsed and
died while playing a Confederations Cup semi-final
against Colombia in Lyon in 2003.
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