{"id":517136,"date":"2026-07-23T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/?p=517136"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:44:54","slug":"uruguayan-footballer-bruno-bentancor-dies-at-22-after-cardiac-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/uruguayan-footballer-bruno-bentancor-dies-at-22-after-cardiac-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uruguayan footballer Bruno Bentancor dies at 22 after cardiac arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uruguayan footballer <strong>Bruno Bentancor<\/strong> has died at the age of 22 after suffering a cardiac arrest, his club <strong>Deportivo Italiano<\/strong> announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom Deportivo Italiano, we want to inform everyone that our player, Bruno Bentancor, better known as \u2018Bola,\u2019 has passed away due to a cardiorespiratory arrest,\u201d the club said in a statement, paying tribute to the striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bentancor had recently joined Deportivo Italiano, which competes in Uruguay\u2019s third division, after returning from Argentina, where he had been on trial with <strong>Deportivo Riestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days before his death, Bentancor was involved in an off-field incident after being accused of taking sports apparel belonging to other players during his stay with the Argentine club. According to reports, he paid for the items, and Deportivo Riestra decided not to pursue legal action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his career, Bentancor also played for <strong>Pe\u00f1arol\u2019s<\/strong> youth academy, <strong>Rentistas<\/strong>, <strong>Cerro<\/strong>, <strong>Everton de Vi\u00f1a del Mar<\/strong> in Chile, and <strong>Al Ain<\/strong> in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguayan footballer Bruno Bentancor has died at the age of 22 after suffering a cardiac arrest, his club Deportivo Italiano announced. \u201cFrom Deportivo Italiano, we want to inform everyone that our player, Bruno Bentancor, better known as \u2018Bola,\u2019 has passed away due to a cardiorespiratory arrest,\u201d the club said in a statement, paying tribute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":517137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2awU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3192.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3192.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}