Maximum anxiety and suffering for the health of Juan Manuel Izquierdo, a Uruguayan footballer who is in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after suffering a heart arrhythmia. The outlook has become complicated in the last hours and the prognosis is bleak.

Uruguayan Consul Marta Echarte visited Izquierdo on Monday at Albert Einstein Hospital, where the Nacional player has been hospitalized since last Thursday, when he fainted during a Copa Libertadores match.

“The situation is very delicate, practically irreversible, and we are waiting to see what will happen in the next 48 hours,” Icharti said.

Furthermore, the consul expressed: “The situation is really not encouraging at all (…) The brain damage is what worries us most now. We spoke with the doctors and at first it was a heart problem, an irregular heartbeat, but then it became complicated and there was an evolution and involvement of the brain, as the medical report says. At this moment they are giving him respiratory assistance.”

A new medical report was released Monday night, which was not at all encouraging. The clinic reported that Izquierdo had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit since August 22, “dependent on mechanical ventilation, with a critical neurological condition.”

The consulate is in constant contact with the club and the family and provides them with “moral” assistance, in addition to supporting them by acting as a link with medical insurance.

The 27-year-old fainted in the 84th minute of Nacional's match against Sao Paulo in the Copa Libertadores last Thursday, and had to be taken off the pitch in an ambulance, after being treated by doctors.