Uruguayan footballer Juan Izquierdo dies in hospital days after collapsing during game in Brazil

Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said in a statement that the Nacional defender died at 9:38 p.m. local time following “cardiorespiratory arrest associated with his cardiac arrhythmia.”

Izquierdo collapsed last Thursday in a Copa Libertadores soccer match between Nacional and Sao Paulo at the Brazilian city’s Morumbi Stadium.

Uruguay's air force said one of its planes will transport his coffin to Montevideo later on Wednesday.