An assistant referee dies while warming up in Murcia

The assistant referee Fernando Alcaraz Bernal, 19 years old, He died this Sunday when he was warming up before participating in the San Ginés de la Jara-Montecasillas First Autonomous Murcia football match in the Cartagena deputation of El Algar, reports 112 and the Murcian federation of this sport.

It has happened sat 4:30 p.m. in the Sánchez Luengo field, 15 minutes before the scheduled time of the game, when has passed out on the grass, where it has started to convulse and has quickly entered cardiorespiratory arrest from which the toilets have not been able to remove him despite his resuscitation maneuvers.

The federation has shown its consternation on Twitter for the death of this lineman, because “one is never prepared to communicate such a news”, after which he sends “a big hug for those closest to him right now.”

The local club also expressed their deepest condolences to the family after the postponement of the game: “It is very difficult to express what we have experienced this afternoon in the warm-up of our game against Montecasillas. We are dismayed by the death of referee Fernando Alcaraz Bernal, a very young boy and a neighbor of La Unión”, a town near Cartagena.

The Mayor of the port city, Ana Belén Castejón, has expressed in the same internet network: “Today is a sad day for the sport in which it is difficult to express our consternation. My condolences to the family and friends of the referee who passed away today. We all accompany you in your grief.”