A 14-year-old youth soccer player from Vélez died this Tuesday morning after being hospitalized for a severe infectious condition.
They are investigating whether he had contracted dengue.
The death was confirmed by the Liniers club, which was shocked by the news.
"Amateur Football and the entire Institution are in mourning. Today at 8 in the morning,
Yair Rodriguez Pereyra
(02-28-2009), defender of the Eighth Division, died after suffering from a severe infectious disease, which He was admitted to the Santa Isabel Sanatorium," the club reported.
Yair was from Córdoba, born in Río Cuarto, and had arrived in Vélez in 2019. He had settled in Buenos Aires with his entire family.
Tomorrow I was going to turn 15 years old.
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