{"id":25162,"date":"2016-05-07T03:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/patrick-ekeng-dinamo-bucharest-and-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T03:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T03:21:16","slug":"patrick-ekeng-dinamo-bucharest-and-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/patrick-ekeng-dinamo-bucharest-and-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Ekeng: Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder dies after on-pitch collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng has died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack after collapsing on the pitch.}<\/p>\n<p>Ekeng fell to the floor in the 70th minute of a televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The Cameroonian FA confirmed the news on Twitter, while Ekeng&#8217;s former club Cordoba tweeted: &#8220;We have no words to express our sadness at the loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ekeng had also previously played for Le Mans and Lausanne.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Cameroon international midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe died after collapsing during a Confederations Cup match against Colombia in France.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12166 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89623989_ekeng_getty2.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Ekeng (left) had previously played for Le Mans and Cordoba\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng has died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack after collapsing on the pitch.} Ekeng fell to the floor in the 70th minute of a televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul. He was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later. The Cameroonian FA confirmed the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}