He was talking on the phone to his girlfriend, who is seven or eight months pregnant, in his hotel room in Italy. When he didn't come down for dinner, his roommate (Ferran Corominas) went to the room. (There was an article that said his girlfriend freaked when he suddenly stopped talking to her and called Coro to go and check on him.) The team doctors were summoned and tried to revive him but couldn't. I believe he was pronounced dead in the room because there was no ambulance that went to get him. Only the coroner's van came to take his body away. It was an apparent heart attack but I guess we won't know for sure until an autopsy is done.
The team was supposed to have played a friendly match against an Italian team and they had trained that morning. The match was called off and the Espanyol team returned home.
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Date: 2009-08-11 12:45 am (UTC)He was talking on the phone to his girlfriend, who is seven or eight months pregnant, in his hotel room in Italy. When he didn't come down for dinner, his roommate (Ferran Corominas) went to the room. (There was an article that said his girlfriend freaked when he suddenly stopped talking to her and called Coro to go and check on him.) The team doctors were summoned and tried to revive him but couldn't. I believe he was pronounced dead in the room because there was no ambulance that went to get him. Only the coroner's van came to take his body away. It was an apparent heart attack but I guess we won't know for sure until an autopsy is done.
The team was supposed to have played a friendly match against an Italian team and they had trained that morning. The match was called off and the Espanyol team returned home.