{"id":7497,"date":"2026-11-03T23:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7497"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:55:44","slug":"barcelona-atletico-skip-champions-league-anthem-to-honor-jesus-de-miguel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7497","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona, Atl\u00e9tico Skip Champions League Anthem To Honor Jesus de Miguel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Soccer teams playing in the Champions League on Tuesday paid tribute to Jesus de Miguel after the Tenerife forward&#8217;s death following an on-field collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>The three Spanish teams hosting games \u2014 Barcelona, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Villarreal \u2014 chose not to play the customary Champions League anthem ahead of kickoff in honor of De Miguel, 30, who suffered cardiac arrest after being struck in the chest by FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono in a second-division match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>In those stadiums and others around Europe, like at Old Trafford where Manchester United was playing Roma, a moment of silence was held in memory of De Miguel, while a picture of the forward was displayed on the big screens inside the grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and midfielder Mikel Merino \u2014 both Spaniards \u2014 opened their news conferences on the eve of Wednesday&#8217;s match against Slavia Prague with a tribute to De Miguel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#555555;font-family:inherit;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.08em;line-height:1.5;margin:0 0 12px\">FOX SPORTS NEWSLETTER<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#404040;font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;margin:0 0 20px\">Follow your favorite leagues, teams and players for a personalized daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#555555;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5;margin:12px 0 0\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Soccer teams playing in the Champions League on Tuesday paid tribute to Jesus de Miguel after the Tenerife forward&#8217;s death following an on-field collision. The three Spanish teams hosting games \u2014 Barcelona, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Villarreal \u2014 chose not to play the customary Champions League anthem ahead of kickoff in honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}