Grief as Greek footballer, Alexandros Lampis dies over cardiac arrest during match.
Allexandro Lampis, a Greek footballer has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 21.
Lampis, according to information gathered by Town Crier News, collapsed five minutes after the commencement of a football game on Wednesday at the First Municipal Stadium in a south-eastern suburb of Athens.
The attacking midfielder was representing Ilioupoli, who play in the third tier of Greek football, before the incident occurred after five minutes because there was no defibrillator or ambulance was present at the stadium, from the report by Sun.
Immediately after the shocking incident, the match between his team and Ermionida was abandoned.
According to Sun reports, the death of Lampis is coming less than two months after a football star in Oman, Mukhaled Al-Raqadi, died after a heart attack he suffered while warming up ahead of a match.
Reacting, his club, Ilioupoli wrote on their website: “Our Aleko, our friend, our brother, you left so unjustly. The whole team, the whole city, is mourning today.
“The words do not come out… only an unbearable pain and a knot in the stomach. Have a good trip Alecara.”