Family and teammates mourn Tenerife striker De Miguel at funeral
Around 400 mourners attended the service as Spain’s coach and Real Madrid’s president joined tributes for the Tenerife striker.
- On Thursday, Spain coach Luis de la Fuente and Real Madrid President Florentino Perez joined around 400 mourners in Navahermosa for the funeral of Tenerife striker Jesús de Miguel, who died following an on-field collision.
- De Miguel suffered cardiac arrest after colliding with Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono during a second-division match on Monday, with the 30-year-old striker succumbing to his injuries in hospital on Tuesday.
- Spanish police opened a routine investigation into possible involuntary manslaughter, while De Miguel's family expressed "their need to be allowed to grieve in peace as is normal in such a situation."
- Authorities postponed Tenerife's match against Granada and Andorra's clash with Mallorca, while rivals Las Palmas wore Tenerife's blue and white colors on Sunday against Eldense as a tribute to De Miguel.
- The AFE union requested postponing all weekend matches, arguing that "psychological and humane conditions necessary for the competition" were not met, though LaLiga proceeded with most fixtures.
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"Everyone of us can meet": Spain's pros didn't want to play this weekend, but they had to. The funeral ceremony for the striker and family father in Tenerife was emotional.
In the stadium of CD Tenerife, fellow players and fans say goodbye to fellow player Jesús de Miguel, who died on Tuesday after a foul game.
His club paid him an emotional tribute at Heliodoro Rodríguez López, while the memory of the striker extended to stadiums throughout Spain
In Santa Cruz in the north of Tenerife, some 10,000 football fans said goodbye to star player Jesús de Miguel (30) last night. At the place where he loved to be, and where he was fatally hit by the Andorra goalkeeper on Monday, the deceased striker received the ultimate tribute. For our journalist Sabine Vermeiren, who was there: football at its most painful. But also at its most beautiful in the sense of togetherness. “Are footballers macho? Wh…
Santa Cruz (Royters) gathered thousands of rogues at Tenerevi Stadium to bid farewell to the attacker Jesús de Miguel, while Commander Enrique Jaejo, who mourned his 30-year-old colleague who died of cardiac arrest during a match. De Miguel was hit by a guard, Andrew Jesus Ono, last Monday, and transferred to intensive care, before Tenerife confirmed his death in the Spanish Second League on Tuesday morning. He was thrown behind a platform in th…
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