Jesús de Miguel, Tenerife footballer, dies as a result of the accidental collision in the match against Andorra

CD Tenerife announced at 9.35 this morning that the soccer player Jesús de Miguel (30 years old, Madrid) has died as a result of the impact suffered during the soccer match played the previous day against Andorra.

The club had announced this morning that the forward had suffered a worsening in his neurological condition after being urgently admitted on Monday to the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital (in Santa Cruz de Tenerife), after suffering a chilling collision against Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono, which caused him to go into cardiac arrest.

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The footballer had managed to regain his pulse thanks to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers carried out by the health services inside the ambulance. “De Miguel is breathing on his own, although he remains unconscious,” added the club's first statement. The situation in the last few hours is somewhat different.

The mishap took place this Monday in the final stretch of the match against FC Andorra played at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium, when the Tenerife attacker, who was running to start a counterattack, accidentally collided with the visiting goalkeeper, Jesús Owono, in the fight for a divided ball.

The crash forced the match to be permanently suspended in the 108th minute to facilitate the entry onto the pitch of the health services, who treated the footballer on the pitch before immediately evacuating him by ambulance to the hospital. This match between Tenerife and Andorra should have been played on Sunday, but was postponed to this Monday due to the alert for heavy rain on the island.

Jesús de Miguel Alameda is a striker from Madrid who has spent most of his career in the First Federation, the level immediately below the Second Division. Trained at CDE Lugo Fuenlabrada and CD Leganés, he played for teams in the region in the Third Division and Second B until the 2021-22 season. Then he signed for Unionistas CF de Salamanca, already in the First Federation. There he scored 12 goals in 36 games.

That was his calling card for his transfer in 2023 to CD Castellón, the current leader of LaLiga Hypermotion (Second Division). He played three seasons for the Albinegro team, in which he achieved promotion and debuted in the Second Division. On July 8, 2025, he left for CD Tenerife, of the First Federation, with which he managed to be promoted to Second last season after scoring 11 goals.

A pubic injury, however, complicated his first season at the Canary Islands club and called his continuity into question. In this season, he has played 98 minutes, spread over six games. I had not yet achieved