Dani Jarque, the Captain of the Spanish football team Espanyol, has died from a heart attack at the age of 26.
Jarque was practicing during pre-season training at Coverciano in Italy earlier in the day. He was staying in the team hotel ahead of a match planned for Sunday against Bolonia. 
Jarque was sharing a room with another player, Ferran Corominas who says Jarque was talking to his girlfriend when he went to dinner on Saturday night.  When Jarque fell silent over the phone, his girlfriend called the hotel who alerted Corminas.  He then went back to the hotel room and found Jarque unconscious.  Although he was taken to a local hospital, all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
"The doctor carried out CPR on the player and used a defibrillator, which showed that the arrest was non responsive. RCD Espanyol, broken with pain, wish to put themselves at the absolute disposition of the family of our captain Dani Jarque, to whom go our warmest thoughts," said the team in a statement to the press. The team has canceled their planned practices in Italy and will return to Spain.
Jarque had been named captain of the side last July, replacing Raúl Tamudo. He joined team Espanyol at the young age of 12 and played his first match in 2002.

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Spanish football captain dies at 26