Fabian O’Neill, the former Uruguayan footballer of Juve and Cagliari – Calcio has died

Fabian O’Neill, the former Uruguayan international who played in Serie A between 1995 and 2002 for Cagliari, Juventus and Perugia, died in hospital on Christmas day. He had been hospitalized yesterday in Montevideo due to bleeding, but this time the treatments failed to save the 49-year-old, undermined by alcohol abuse and already forced to hospitalizations and operations several times.

Cagliari, which had already included him in the ‘Hall of Fame’, paid tribute to their former player with a message on twitter: “Proud to have been able to admire your genius up close: pure, crystalline, like the most precious diamonds. You made us fall in love with your class, Cagliari has never stopped loving its Wizard with the “10” on his shoulders. Rest in peace, Fabian. Forever one of us”. With the rossoblù shirt, O’Neill collected 120 appearances, scoring twelve goals between 1995 and 2000.