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CD Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel has died aged 30. He was hurt in a collision with FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono in the closing minutes of Monday’s Segunda División match at the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López.
The club said the Madrid-born striker died at 08:00 local time on Tuesday, 3 November, at the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He had been in intensive care overnight.
“Broken with pain, with a lump in our throat and unable to believe this is true, CD Tenerife announces the tragic death, this Tuesday, 3 November 2026, at 8:00, of Jesús de Miguel Alameda,” the club said.
How the tragedy unfolded
The game had already been moved back from Sunday because of bad weather. Late in the match, De Miguel chased a long ball near the centre circle. Owono came out and jumped for it, and Canarias7 reported that his knee hit the striker hard in the chest. The referee sent Owono off.
At first, few players seemed to realise how badly De Miguel was hurt. Andorra defender Diego Alende was reportedly the first to see it and call for medical help. Medical staff from both clubs and the Red Cross treated De Miguel on the pitch for more than 10 minutes. After cardiopulmonary resuscitation he regained a pulse.
Canarias7 reported that he went into a second cardiorespiratory arrest after being carried on a stretcher to a corner of the stadium to wait for an ambulance. Other outlets placed the arrest on the way to hospital. The captains, both coaches and the referee agreed straight away to abandon the match and not play the few minutes left.
Tenerife’s first update described him as “stable within the seriousness.” At about 04:00 on Tuesday the club reported a “neurological” deterioration. He died four hours later.
His family has asked for “the utmost respect for their privacy in these terrible moments”. At their request, the hospital released no information of its own.
A late bloomer’s career
De Miguel took the long road to professional football. He came through the youth systems at Lugo Fuenlabrada and CD Leganés, then spent most of a decade in Spain’s lower divisions. His clubs included Internacional de Madrid, CF Fuenlabrada, CDA Navalcarnero and Unionistas de Salamanca, where he scored 13 league goals in two seasons.
He joined CD Castellón in January 2023 and helped them win promotion to the Segunda in 2024. He made his professional debut at 27, in a 1-0 defeat at SD Eibar in August 2024.
Tenerife signed him on a three-year deal in July 2025, weeks after the club had been relegated to the third tier. He scored 11 league goals as they went straight back up to the Segunda. Across nine senior clubs he scored 77 league goals in 257 appearances.
He leaves behind his partner, María, and a daughter born in 2025.
“There are no words of comfort; there is absolutely nothing that can ease this feeling full of sadness,” Tenerife said in a second statement. “We are with his devastated family, with his loved ones, with all of tinerfeñismo that today mourns this cruel outcome.”
Grief, questions and what comes next
Spanish media reported that Owono was distraught and wanted to apologise to De Miguel’s family. FC Andorra, Real Madrid and Barcelona were among the clubs that sent condolences.
Spanish football has lost players during their careers before. Sevilla’s Antonio Puerta collapsed on the pitch in 2007 and died three days later. Espanyol captain Dani Jarque died in 2009 after a heart attack at a pre-season training camp. Both deaths were linked to heart conditions. De Miguel’s case is different and very rare: his collapse followed a single blow in an ordinary challenge. Neither the club nor the hospital has given a medical cause of death.
That is likely to put two things under scrutiny:
- Emergency response: how long it took to get De Miguel from the pitch to an ambulance, and where he was treated while he waited.
- Protecting outfield players: how goalkeepers are allowed to challenge in the air, since the collision came from a goalkeeper jumping for a long ball.
Tenerife will hold a tribute to De Miguel at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López at 18:00 on Saturday, open to supporters and the wider island. His funeral will be in Navahermosa, in the province of Toledo, once his body can be flown to the mainland. Majority shareholder Rayco García said the first-team squad and board could travel to it.
LaLiga has not yet said what will happen to the abandoned match or to Tenerife’s upcoming fixtures.
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Notes:
– **Age:** TUDN’s headline says he was 23. That’s wrong: Wikipedia gives his date of birth as 21 September 1996, which makes him 30, as your brief says.
– **Left out because no source had it:** the score when the match was stopped, the exact minute of the collision, and any comment from Tenerife’s coach, LaLiga or the Spanish football federation (RFEF).
– **Where the second cardiac arrest happened:** reports disagree. I used Canarias7’s more detailed account (at the stadium) and noted that other outlets said it was on the way to hospital.
– **Owono’s reaction:** his wish to apologise is reported second-hand, so it’s paraphrased rather than quoted.
I saved the verified facts to memory.
Sources:
– [Canarias7](https://www.canarias7.es/deportes/futbol/muere-jugador-tenerife-jesus-miguel-20261103084233-nt.html)
– [TUDN](https://www.tudn.com/futbol/muere-jesus-de-miguel-jugador-cd-tenerife-23-anos)
– [Wikipedia – Jesús de Miguel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_de_Miguel)
– [Canarias Diario](https://www.canariasdiario.com/noticia/152628/deportes/fallece-jesus-de-miguel-futbolista-del-cd-tenerife.html) (found in search; the page itself blocked access)
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