This was never going to be remembered as an ordinary football match, and now it cannot be remembered as anything other than a tragedy. CD Tenerife announced on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, at 8:00 hours that Jesús de Miguel had died after the collision that brought the Tenerife-Andorra match to a halt in the 108th minute. Football can absorb drama, tension and controversy. It has no answer for this.
The sequence of events was as brutal as it was sudden. The match had already been pushed back from Sunday because of a heavy-rain alert on the island, only to end on Monday in the most painful circumstances possible at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López. Jesús de Miguel collided with Jesús Owono in the final stretch, was attended to on the pitch, resuscitated inside an ambulance and then admitted to Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
A devastating chain of events
CD Tenerife’s updates over the following hours made the situation sound grave from the start. On Monday afternoon, the club said De Miguel was breathing on his own but remained unconscious and was stable within the gravity of the situation. By overnight into Tuesday, that fragile hope had vanished, with the club stating that his neurological condition had worsened. By morning, the news was final. Jesús de Miguel Alameda had died.
There is no way to dress that up, and no reason to try. The club’s own words made the emotional weight plain: “Rotos de dolor, con un nudo en la garganta y sin poder creer que esto sea verdad...” and “No hay palabras de consuelo.” Those are not slogans, and they are not routine statements. They are the language of a club trying to absorb a shock that should never have been part of the sporting script.
More than a football story
De Miguel’s path to Tenerife also adds to the sense of loss. He had built most of his career in the lower tiers below Segunda División before joining CD Tenerife, a route that speaks to persistence, patience and the long climb so many players make without fanfare. He had 12 goals in 36 matches in 2021-22 and had previously spent time with Unionistas CF, CDE Lugo Fuenlabrada and CD Leganés. None of that matters in the way it once did, because no record now sits above the human story.
That is the hardest truth in a case like this: the game stopped, the medical response was immediate, and still the outcome was fatal. A divided-ball challenge turned into a medical emergency that no supporter in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, or anywhere else, should ever have had to confront. For CD Tenerife, for Andorra, and for everyone who saw the incident unfold, this is the kind of moment that leaves football feeling very small indeed.
