Colombian soccer player Andres Balanta died in Argentina after suffering a decompensation in the training of Atletico Tucuman, his club, on the Colombian afternoon of this Tuesday. The news left soccer fans cold, as the young man from Cali was only 22 years old.
However, this It was not the first time that the footballer had fainted ein training with their teams. In August 2019 the same thing had happened to him when he was in practice with Deportivo Cali.
At the time it was necessary submit to medical examinations to determine the cause of that event. According to a statement from the communications department of the Deportivo Cali announced by the sports journalist Juan Diego Osorio On his Twitter account, the results of the tests were that his state of health was normal.
“The Deportivo Cali Medical Department is allowed to issue this second statement on the state of health of our player Andrés Felipe Balanta. After 24 hours of observation and performing the neurological, cardiological and laboratory assessments, these have yielded normal results”, says the statement, which is dated August 28, 2019.
Balanta already had a history of physical problems while he was in training, so with his death he is put back on the table for discussion the need for clubs to carry out comprehensive monitoring of the health of their athletes so that no more situations of this nature arise, which in our country have occurred a lot in young players.
