Popular footballer collapses, dies on pitch after being hit with ball [VIDEO]

Marsonia striker, Bruno Boban tragically passed away during his side’s match against Slavonija Pozega in the Croatian third tier football league over the weekend.

Bruno, the Croatian third division’s top scorer, was 15 minutes into the game when Pozega player smashed the ball into his chest from close range.

Play continued until the 25-year-old suddenly fell to the ground unconscious.

Realising something was horribly wrong, players from both sides rushed to his aid as those on the touchline called an ambulance.

Emergency workers spent almost an hour trying to revive Boban, after he collapsed on the pitch.
His team-mates and rivals struggled to fight back tears as medics pronounced the striker dead at the scene.

The cause of Boban death has not yet been announced.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Super Eagles is in the same group with Croatia, Argentina and Iceland in this summer’s World Cup in Russia.