Alfredo Quintana, the Cuban goalkeeper for the handball club Porto and the Portuguese national team, died this Friday at the age of 32, after failing a cardiorespiratory arrest on Monday, the club reported on its social networks.
The message we never thought we would share: our dear Alfredo Quintana has left today. You will be forever remembered as one of ours. A real dragon. Rest in peace, Eternal Quintana!
#FCPorto #FCPortoSports pic.twitter.com/3bEf1714gO
– FC Porto (@FCPorto) February 26, 2021
“A message we never thought we would share: our dear Alfredo Quintana has left today,” Porto wrote on his Twitter profile on social networks. “As always you will be remembered as one of us. A real Dragon. Rest in peace, Eternal Quintana!” The message added.
Quintana was arrested during training and has since been treated in the intensive care unit at São João Hospital in Porto.
The Spanish newspaper Like He pointed out that the goalkeeper was in one of the best moments of his sports career as he had just excelled with Portugal at the World Cup in Egypt. He added 72 games with the Portuguese team.
Last Sunday was his last game, when he played in his club’s victory in the Portuguese league against Aguas Santas (26-34), in a game in which Quitana made 15 saves. Last Wednesday, Porto had a Champions League handball match against Meshkov Brest in Belarus, which was eventually postponed as the entire team was aware of the health of its goalkeeper.
Abanca Ademar’s captain, José Mario Carrillo, is “shocked” by the goalkeeper’s death and emphasized the “happiness he radiated and passed on to those around him”.
“I have an indelible memory that I think I will always have with me because, more than a partner, he was an extremely kind and very close-knit person who always encouraged everyone even when it didn’t work out,” the athlete added to. a team shared with him Cuban.
Quintana left the island in 2009 and became a Portuguese citizen in 2014.