The dramatic decompensation of
Javier Altamirano
in the match between Estudiantes and Boca turned Argentine football upside down.
The 24-year-old player collapsed on the field and was quickly helped by doctors before being transferred to the Platense Medical Institute, where he continued to be treated.
The match was
suspended by decision of referee
Fernando Echenique.
Altamirano, who
arrived in Argentina last year
, spent his entire career in
Huachipato
of the trans-Andean country.
From there he came to Estudiantes, which bought
50 percent of his pass
from him for a figure close to a
million dollars
.
Since then
he played 16 games
and scored a goal - against Godoy Cruz, on March 3 -.
Due to his good performances, already in his country, he had been called up for the
Chilean national team
.
The first call was from Argentine
Eduardo Berizzo
, who summoned him for the duel
with Cuba
(3-0) on June 11, 2023. He then continued to be part of the stable squad beyond the departure of the Argentine coach, although he was not a starter again. .
He lives
in Argentina with his wife
, who is
pregnant
.
The rest of his family is in Chile.
The latest information ensures that Altamirano was
stabilized after suffering a new episode in the ambulance
.
Less than a year ago, in May 2023, when he was still wearing the shirt of the club where he trained and made his professional debut in Chile, trans-Andean football leaders debated on television what would be
the best steps to follow for his career
.
In the
Estadio
program , on the Chilean edition of the TNT Sports channel, Claudio Borghi, former soccer player and coach on both sides of the Cordillera, agreed with Juvenal Olmos, another reference from those lands, that Altamirano should
stay to be champion in Huachipato
and then leave, "which is always interesting," said the world champion in Mexico '86.
In that same program, the panelists were in charge of highlighting that prior to his arrival at "Pincha" they found him "
consistently having good games
."
In August of that year, three months later and after making the Olympic tour with Huachipato, he landed in the city of diagonals, becoming the
third reinforcement of Eduardo Domínguez's team
.
He was accompanied in that transfer market by another foreigner, the Colombian Alexis Castillo Manyoma, who arrived from Cortuluá.
News in development.
D.S.