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| Sevilla midfielder Puerta dies Staff and agencies Tuesday August 28, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Antonio Puerta. Photograph: Cristina Quicler/AFP/Getty Spanish media are reporting that Antonio Puerta has died aged 22 after collapsing during his side's match against Getafe on Saturday. Puerta collapsed after jogging back towards his own goal 35 minutes into the opening league game of the season at the Sanchez Pizjuan on Saturday. Team-mates and medical staff rushed to his side and were seen preventing him from swallowing his tongue as he lost consciousness. Doctors earlier confirmed that the condition of Puerta had deteriorated. A medical report by Dr Francisco Murillo, head of the intensive care unit, read: "The condition of patient Antonio Puerta is not favourable due to the progression of the postanoxic brain injury and the multiple organic dysfunction caused by the prolonged cardiac arrest that led to his admission to hospital." Puerta, who had passed a medical with his club three weeks ago, was able to walk from the pitch after being attended to by medical staff on Saturday, but then collapsed again in the changing rooms and was given cardiac resuscitation. |