The assistant referee who collapsed on the sector throughout the first half of Canada’s Copa América match in opposition to Peru on Tuesday is “secure” and has been discharged from a neighborhood healthcare heart, match organizers stated Wednesday.
The ref, Humberto Panjoj, went down close to the sidelines simply earlier than halftime of the match at Youngsters’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas. Canadian goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was the primary to reach at Panjoj’s aspect, and rolled him over onto his again earlier than waving frantically for assist.
Medical employees attended to Panjoj on the sector earlier than finally stretchering him off. He was changed by a substitute “fifth official.”
One of many asst referees for Peru-Canada is down on the sector, he is the sunny aspect and it is within the 90s pic.twitter.com/VQ50WsCcJH
— CJ Fogler account could or is probably not notable (@cjzero) June 25, 2024
In a Wednesday e-mail, CONMEBOL, the South American soccer confederation operating the Copa América, stated that Panjoj had “suffered from dehydration.”
The Kansas Metropolis area was in a warmth advisory on Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures hit properly over 90 levels and the warmth index had surpassed 100 levels because the second half started. Many followers moved into shaded sections of the stadium because the second half started because of the warmth, too. A few of the area was shaded, however Panjoj was on the aspect of the sector uncovered to solar.
The Copa América is being performed at 14 stadiums throughout the U.S. because the nation offers with a nationwide warmth wave. Greater than half of 14 venues are open-air, out of doors stadiums.
Two days earlier, after a recreation in Miami, Uruguay defender Ronald Araujo revealed that he needed to depart his crew’s match in opposition to Panama at halftime because of the warmth and dehydration, as he “was a bit dizzy” when he made it again to the locker room for the break.
Canada finally beat Peru 1-0 on Tuesday, through a 74th-minute objective from Jonathan David scored.
It was Canada’s first-ever Copa América win.