Goalkeeper Jesús Owono experiencing ‘hardest days of my life’ after De Miguel’s death

The FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono said he was enduring the “hardest days of my life” after he was involved in the collision that led to the death of the Tenerife striker Jesús de Miguel.

Owono had raced out of his goal and crashed into De Miguel in added time at the end of the Spanish second division match on Monday afternoon, causing the striker to experience a cardiorespiratory arrest. De Miguel was taken to hospital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife but never regained consciousness and died on Tuesday morning.

“These are being the hardest days of my life,” Owono said in a statement published by Andorra. “I find it hard to find the words and very difficult to assimilate what has happened.