
The 21-year-old Spanish footballer Luis Miguel Lastra died. He was found dead at home after training. According to Marca , the cause of the death of an athlete, who played for the club of the first division of the Andalusian regional championship "Syudad-Hardin", was acute heart failure.
According to the President of the Club Jose Bonilli, despite the death of the player, this club will hold the next match in the tournament against the Dos Ermanas team and will devote it to Lastra's memory.
Over the past few years, this is the third case of the death of a football player in Spain. In 2007, as a result of a heart attack, the defender of the Seville club Antonio Puert died, and in 2009, also due to problems with the heart, the defender of Espanyol Daniel Harkka died.
Since 2006, 23 football players died during matches or training around the world, the vast majority of them because of heart problems.