2023-11-11 17:52:47
Ghanaian Raphael Dwamena, Egnatia striker and former player for teams such as Levante and Real Zaragoza, died this Saturday during the Albanian Super League match that his team was playing against Partizani. The forward was Oviedo’s target for their forward line in the summer of 2019, but he ended up signing with Zaragoza.
Dwamena, a 27-year-old footballer raised in the Red Bull Salzburg youth academy, fainted 24 minutes into the match and despite the immediate intervention of doctors and being rushed to the hospital by ambulance, he could not be revived.
The Albanian Football Federation (AFL) has expressed in a statement “its deepest condolences” to the player’s family and Egnatia “for this great loss that has shocked the entire Albanian football community”,
Likewise, the organization has announced that all matches scheduled for this weekend in all the championships it organizes have been postponed to a date to be determined as a sign of mourning for the death of the eight-time Ghanaian international.
In January 2020, after several similar mishaps, he underwent surgery in Zaragoza and a device was installed in his heart and he could not play for almost three years. The doctors recommended that he not play again but he insisted on doing so.
The Ghanaian Federation also expressed its dismay at his death and assured that Dwamena “represented” the team with all his “heart” and that he will be missed in the future.
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