A 26-year-old striker for Cameroonian second division soccer team Dynamo de Douala collapsed during a match and later died, the country’s professional soccer league said on Sunday.
Leopold Angong Oben was fouled in the penalty area, earning his team a spot kick during the first half of the match against Colombe du Dja-et-Lobo at the Reunification Stadium in the commercial capital Douala on Saturday, supersport.com reports.
He received treatment on the field and resumed play but collapsed minutes later.
“He collapsed in the stadium in the 33rd minute of the match. His teammates tried to revive him without success,” supersport.com quoted a sports journalist, Aime Moukoko, who was in the stadium, as saying on the incident.
The referee called for the assistance of Red Cross personnel present at the stadium, the Cameroon Professional Football League said in a statement.
His cause of death has not been disclosed.
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