Jesús Owono Grieves After Collision Kills 30-Year-Old Jesús de Miguel
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Updated · The Guardian · Nov 4
Jesús Owono Grieves After Collision Kills 30-Year-Old Jesús de Miguel
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Nov 4
Summary
Jesús Owono said he was living the “hardest days of my life” after his added-time collision with Tenerife striker Jesús de Miguel, who suffered cardiorespiratory arrest and died Tuesday without regaining consciousness.
Spanish police opened a standard homicide-division investigation into the non-natural death, but Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s chief prosecutor said criminal proceedings against the goalkeeper were “very unlikely.”
The inquiry is expected to examine the medical response as well as the impact itself: de Miguel was treated on the pitch for five minutes, and emergency-care officials said contradictory accounts remain over when he recovered a pulse.
FC Andorra said the club was “deeply affected” and providing psychological support, while Owono deactivated Instagram after abuse online and received backing from teammates and Equatorial Guinea’s federation.
De Miguel, 30, leaves a wife and 18-month-old child; flowers and tributes have been left in Tenerife, his funeral is set in Navahermosa, and a final homage is planned Saturday.