Legendary Cameroonian footballer Marc Vivien Foe dies after collapsing on pitch

17:25 - 26 June 2018

On 26 June, 2003, the football fraternity was struck by a big bow when Marc Vivien Foe suffered his untimely death while playing for the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon.

Exactly 15 years today, Cameroonian international player was playing against Colombia in a confederation cup when he collapsed on field and passed away over heart issues.

In the 73rd minute of the Confederations Cup semi-final between Cameroon and Colombia at Lyon's Stade de Gerland, the powerful midfielder was jogging along innocuously.

No-one was close to him and nothing seemed wrong, yet suddenly he collapsed to the ground in the centre circle. Medical and support staff attempted to resuscitate the player on the pitch, before carrying him on a stretcher to the bowels of the stadium, where attempts to restart his heart failed and the man known affectionately by his team-mates as 'Marco' was pronounced dead.