Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Golder’s News And Sport 

This Flamengo fan tragically died of a heart attack after his team’s dramatic last-minute Copa Libertadores final winner over River Plate.

Businessman and Flamengo fan Washington Vasconcelos, 40, was reportedly watching the Copa Libertadores final at home with his eight-year-old daughter and his in-laws in the Bairro Conjunto Ceara of the city of Fortaleza in the northern Brazilian state of Ceara when the incident occurred.

One family member, who was not named in reports, said: “He had a heart attack after Flamengo’s second goal. He was a huge Flamengo fan. Maybe it (the heart attack) was because of the emotion.”

Vasconcelos was reportedly taken to the Emergency Ward of the local Conjunto Ceara hospital but doctors could not save him.

His sister-in-law Fabiola Serpa, who went to the hospital with him, told reporters Vasconcelos felt weak in the legs and fell to the floor as he was celebrating Flamengo’s winner.

She said: “The men picked him up and put him in a neighbour’s car. Me, him and the neighbour went to the hospital. When we were in the Emergency Ward he did not have a pulse, they tried to resuscitate him, they did everything but unfortunately, they could not reanimate him.”

The victim’s relatives said he exercised regularly. Fabiola told reporters: “ The doctor, in the death certificate, stated that he had an arrhythmia and that the blood had gone to his lung. The word he used was that it was a fatality.”

Gabriel Barbosa, known as Gabigol, scored two late goals for Flamengo to claim a dramatic victory over River Plate in the Copa Libertadores final. Barbosa and River Plate’s Exequiel Palacios were both sent off in the 95th minute.

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