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Unión La Calera coach Cicotello taken to hospital after medical episode following defeat

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Unión La Calera coach Martín Cicotello suffered a medical episode after his team’s 2-1 defeat by O’Higgins.
  • He attended the post-match news conference before requiring medical assistance after returning to the dressing room.
  • Cicotello was taken to an emergency care center for evaluation, while no further details about his condition had been released.

Martín Cicotello left El Teniente stadium in an ambulance after Unión La Calera’s 2-1 defeat by O’Higgins. The Argentine coach had completed the post-match news conference, but suffered a medical episode after returning to the dressing room.

Medical assistance was requested at the Rancagua stadium. Cicotello was then removed in an emergency vehicle and taken to an urgent-care center for evaluation, Cooperativa Deportes reported. No further information about his health had been released.

The episode came after another difficult result for Unión La Calera. The “cementeros” remain bottom of Chile’s Primera League with 14 points after the loss to O’Higgins.

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Originally published by Cooperativa in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.