Tenerife striker Jesús de Miguel dies at 30 after collision with Andorra goalkeeper
Photo: The GuardianTenerife striker Jesús de Miguel died aged 30 on Tuesday morning after colliding with Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono in a Spanish second-division match on Monday, the club announced. The collision came in added time at Tenerife's Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López, with the score 2-2. The game had been moved back 24 hours because of the risk of heavy rain. A long ball was played upfield, De Miguel chased it, and Owono came far out of his goal and jumped into him near the centre circle, striking him in the chest with his knee. Owono was sent off at once. De Miguel lay unconscious as players from both sides called for medics, and referee Manuel Ángel Pérez Hernández abandoned the match in the 108th minute.
De Miguel's pulse was restored in the ambulance and he was taken to the Hospital Universitario de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Santa Cruz and placed in intensive care. He had suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and did not regain consciousness. At 5am Tuesday the club said his neurological condition had worsened, and he died at 8am. He had come on as a substitute in the 59th minute with Tenerife leading 2-0.
The right-leaning Daily Mail leads with the emotional and graphic side. Its headline calls the collision "sickening" and the challenge a "horrifying foul", and it describes De Miguel as looking set to race away on a counter-attack. It adds that he was treated for over five minutes, teammates appeared in tears and the stadium fell silent. The left-leaning Guardian is more procedural and clinical. It gives the sequence of the 96th-minute ball, the 108th-minute abandonment, the hospital timeline and the club's updates on his breathing and neurological decline, and it uses no charged labels for the challenge. Both agree on the score, the red card, the abandonment and the death on Tuesday. Al Jazeera, which is independent, stands out by quoting the club's mourning statement at length and noting that Spanish media reported the arrest.
How the sides differ Right sources stress the 'horrifying foul' and the stadium scene; left sources give the medical timeline and match details; alternative sources feature the club's mourning statement.
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The Guardian gives a detailed, clinical account, including the 96th-minute collision, the abandonment, the hospital timeline and the club's updates on De Miguel's condition before his death.
Al Jazeera opens with the football world in mourning and quotes the club's grief-filled statement at length; ESPN gives a brief report that De Miguel died after the collision, citing the club.
The Daily Mail uses emotive wording such as "sickening" and "horrifying foul", and stresses the flying knee to the chest, the distressed players and the silent stadium.