The father of Chilean soccer player Arturo Vidal, Erasmo Vidal, 62, was found dead this Tuesday inside the Club Hípico de Santiago and the circumstances in which the event occurred are being investigated.
According to the first versions of the local press, Erasmo Vidal would have died due to “cardiorespiratory arrest due to hypovolemic shock”, although the competent authorities are investigating the causes of death.
“Upon arrival at the scene, the ambulance delivered first aid, trying to revive him, because his condition was worsening, determining cardiorespiratory arrest and hypovolemic shock,” the Equestrian Club confirmed through a statement on its official Twitter account.
Erasmo Vidal had gone to see different races at the club, where his son has a series of horses. According to local media on courtWitnesses say that he died near the main access, near a restaurant and an ATM.
For her part, the owner of the Apaloosa restaurant, which is located inside the Equestrian Club, hinted that the death would have taken place on Monday night, since she was the one who found him on the morning of this Tuesday, confirming his death by paramedics from the compound and from Samu, who arrived at the scene.
“We learned that he died at night, he was seeing the horses that his son has here. Now he is resting. I understand that he had a heart attack and that his son is already coming here by plane,” commented one of the workers of the Equestrian Club in dialogue with Sports DNA From Chile.
Arturo Vidal, two-time Copa América champion with Chile, former Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus player and now at Flamengo in Brazil, maintained a distant relationship with his father for having abandoned his family when the midfielder was 5 years old.
In 2016, the soccer player’s father was arrested during an identity check carried out in the La Victoria town of the popular Pedro Aguirre Cerda commune and hours following his capture, he was released.
In 2018, a new son was born to Erasmo, Arturo’s stepbrother, whom the footballer was able to meet when he was 10 months old.
