19-year-old Luca Manolache was a professional football player who played for Metaloglobus Bucure’ti until August 2024 before he was forced to put his career on hold due to a series of health issues.

Reportedly, young Luca suffered from prolonged dizziness, bloody stools, and chills. He lacked energy to finish even the first halves of the matches during the past couple of months, as per the dailymail.

During a match, his symptoms were so severe that the club needed to call an ambulance.

At the time, young football player Luca Manolache complained his vision turned black.

His condition worsened once again on February 28 while he was out with a family members. Ambulance was called one again, and while the young football player waited for them to arrive, he called his mother. “Mum, Mum, I can’t do it anymore,” he told his mom.

His mother reported she had heard her son asking one of the nurses if she thought he was going to die.

As per thesun, while Luca was inside the ambulance, he once again complained that his vision was black.

His mom rushed to the County Hospital in Târgoviște, Romania, but he passed away before she got there. It was Luca’s siter who called her mom and told her of her brother’s passing.