The parents of Nacional-URU and Izquierdo did not know about the old arrhythmia, says a newspaper

The team’s medical department found Izquierdo’s old scans but found no problems.. He joined the club in 2022 and, after a spell at Liverpool Montevideo, returned at the start of the year.

The athlete’s parents also did not know, according to El País, about the old arrhythmia. At the time, the defendant was a minor and, therefore, the decision should have been communicated to those responsible.

A “relatively irreversible” condition.

Marta Echarte, the Uruguayan consul, was at the Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital this past Monday (26) and revealed that Izquierdo’s condition is “mostly irreversible”. He felt sick during the match against São Paulo, last week, at MorumBis.

We were with the president of Nacional, Alejandro Balbi, and the family of Juan Izquierdo. The situation is very delicate, almost unavoidable and we are waiting to see what happens in the next 48 hours. Brain damage is what worries us the most now. We talked to the doctors and at first it was a heart problem, cardiac arrhythmia, but then it got complicated and there was progression and brain involvement, this is what the medical report says. Now they are giving him respiratory support. Marta Echarte on Sport 890 radio, from Uruguay

Critical patient status on the left sideaccording to the latest medical journal. The victim continues to breathe through mechanical ventilation.