Sometimes, being on the football pitch can literally mean life or death. Today, Sarthak Kumar looks at two such cases in Spanish football.
Silence.
The fans were scared. He had just collapsed - just like that. He wasn’t moving.
The medical staff rushed to Antonio Puerta, desperate to make sure he didn’t swallow his tongue. He recovered and was substituted off immediately.
But then, in the dressing room, he collapsed again. The medics tried cardiac resuscitation, before taking Antonio to the intensive care unit of the Virgen del Rocío hospital. They tried everything - but the damage was irreversible.