News coming in from Italy says that Espanyol's captain, Dani Jarque, has died during his club's pre-season tour of Italy. Having trained in the morning, he collapsed at the team hotel and couldn't be revived. Needless to say, the tour has been cancelled and the players are on their way home.
Jarque was an Espanyol man through and through having joined the club at the age of 12 and rising through the ranks to the stage at which he found himself, the newly appointed club captain.
Two years ago, Sevilla's Antonio Puerta suffered a similar heart failure during a league match and the deaths of Marc-Vivien Foe and Phil O'Donnell are still prominent in recent memories. No doubt that questions regarding health monitoring will be raised again and the sport as a whole may have some questions to ask. Fortunately these incidents are still very rare, though that fact does not lessen the tragedy of events in Italy.
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