Late arrival of medical aid to of 30 year old Nigeria player David Oniya who collapsed and die on the pitch during his team T-Team friendly tie against Kelantan has been blamed as partly the reason why Oniya died on Saturday.
Oniya, 30, went down about three minutes into the game for T-Team and was pronounced dead at hospital around half-an-hour later, the club’s chief executive told The Star newspaper.
CEO Syahrizan Mohd Zain said Oniya, who was in his first season with second-tier T-Team, had barely touched the ball in the friendly with Super League side Kelantan in Kota Bharu.
Syahrizan particularly complained that the ambulance driver had been slow in arriving to the aid of the central defender who has also played in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan before joining the second tier Malaysian side T-Teams.
“He suffered a heart attack but it could have been a different story had the ambulance driver (been) alert. The driver was at the stands watching the game when Oniya suddenly collapsed and our defender was deprived of oxygen for several minutes,” he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.
The death of Onyia who has 10 year experience as a professional footballer brings to three the number of footballers who have died from heart attack from April till date following the death of two Belgium players.
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