Antonio Puerta: The Left-Footed Diamond

The death of Puerta made people finally realize that football is not as important as life itself. The craziest aspect in this case is that after passing out on the pitch, he got up on his feet cursing the substitution that his coach had called on him after collapsing. He wanted to keep playing.

This is not the first case of a person dying on the soccer pitch; two days ago another case happened, but Puerta's has been really close to us, and our hearts ache for his unfair fate.

Antonio Puerta was just 22 years old when he died, and even though his mates on the team and everyone that knew him remarked on his maturity, he was just a kid, a soccer whiz-kid, but a kid. The Left-Footed Diamond, as Del Nido, president of the Sevillist club christened him, was watched closely by many teams of the English Premiership, and even Real Madrid had put their eyes on him for future deals.

Puerta's death gathered all kinds of people, football fans and even people that don't like football, but all under the flag of Sevilla CF. In the past 15 months, this football club has won five titles - a record that began thanks to Antonio and his amazing goal against the Germans of Schalke 04 in the overtime, an astounding volley with his left foot that he could barely believe himself.

That goal provided Sevilla with their first UEFA Cup final in their history, which of course they won, as well as the same title in the following year. But personally, a play that allows you to see what a great player the football world is going to miss can be found in the Europe Supercup against FC Barcelona, just one year ago.