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Tenerife striker Jesús de Miguel dies in hospital after match collision

The club announced his death on Tuesday morning after emergency treatment and an overnight deterioration in his neurological condition.

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JESÚS DE MIGUEL, jugador del Tenerife, muere tras chocar contra Owono, portero del Andorra | EP

Jesús de Miguel died on Tuesday morning after being hospitalized following a collision during Tenerife's match against Andorra, Spain's newspaper EL PAÍS reports. The striker was 30.

The report traces the emergency from the closing minutes of Monday's game, when De Miguel collided with Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono. According to the report, De Miguel suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, and the match was suspended.

He was taken urgently to Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands. Tenerife announced overnight that his neurological condition had worsened. The club subsequently said he died at 8 a.m. local time, announcing the death shortly afterward.

The video briefly revisits De Miguel's playing career and his arrival at Tenerife in July 2025, before turning to messages of condolence. It shows statements from Tenerife and Andorra, alongside tributes from Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, the Spanish football federation and Gerard Piqué.