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The family and friends of Patrick Ekeng Ekeng who died during a championship game between his club, Dinamo Bucarest FC and Viitorul Constanta have disclosed the midfielder did not understand his body and did not want to play, feeling very tired before the game.

“He told his best friend he was not able to play and his coach insisted that he should play.
“He said he was very tired.

“Patrick was a very generous gentleman. It is very painful he is leaving behind a family, it is like a dream, a nightmare”, Monique Chantal, Ekeng’s elder sister told Lions4life.com.

Coach Onana saw Ekeng make the first passes at the ball at his tender age with his third division club, Sao-Paolo.

“He was a child who never disturbed,he was calm, he had no problem.

“I saw images similar to when Marc Vivien Foe former Cameroon midfielder died, in the centre of the field, it is sad, I never cry even when a relation dies but I did for Ekeng”.

Celine Chembi, Ekeng’s mother was out for funeral in the village and her phone started ringing, “what is this kind of news, they asked. At the end I was told Patrick is dead.

“It is difficult to talk about my son at this moment, but I believe in God and submit to the His will”.

The fourth child, Chembi says Ekeng  was  chosen among others and made a professional soccer career, but it is the will of God that he died.

“If this is football and the life of professional players then this calls for reflection”, Chembi said.

Ekeng lastly spoke to his mother on Thursday before she set out for the village to supervise   construction works on his house.

“We did speak every day, but because I was in the village he sent someone to see me and was to call when I came back”.

The mother who had a close bond with the son narrated how he Ekeng became responsible very early at the age of 20.

“I was close to my son, and every time he called me I felt something, I was his confident, he was very obedient, calm and sociable.

“One day he confided in me; when he comes back from training he is always very  tired to cook, his wish was to get a wife, we did everything and it was a nice wedding”, she told Lions4life.com.

Dinamo Bucharest is making arrangements for the repatriation of the corps to Cameroon.

Ekeng who played for Cameroon U-20 in 2009 and was part of the squad at the 2015 Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea moved to Le Mans FC and later to Dinamo Bucarest in Romania.

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The Romanian Cup final has been put back a week following the death of Cameroon international Patrick Ekeng during a league match, the Romanian Football Federation announced Saturday.

Ekeng, 26, died after collapsing on the pitch while playing a first division match on Friday with his Romanian side Dinamo Bucharest.

The midfielder fell to the ground without any contact with another player in the 70th minute of the game against Viitorul, just seven minutes after coming on as a substitute.

Ekeng, who joined the Romanian club in January, was rushed to hospital where staff were unable to resuscitate him.

The federation said in a statement that "following the tragedy of what happened in the match between Dinamo and FC Viitorul", all games slated for May 7-9 as well as the May 10 Cup final were postponed.

The Cup final between Dinamo Bucharest and Cluj will now take place on May 17, the federation added.

Before arriving in Romania, Ekeng played for several European clubs, spending four seasons with French Ligue 2 side Le Mans from 2009 to 2013.

The player from Yaounde then transferred to Lausanne in Switzerland from 2013-2014 and Spanish side Cordoba from 2014-2015 before joining Dinamo.

Ekeng made his debut for Cameroon in January 2015 and was named in the squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations from which the Indomitable Lions were eliminated in the group stage.

His death also echoed that of his countryman Marc-Vivien Foe, who died of a heart attack in 2003 playing an Confederations Cup match against Colombia at the Gerland Stadium in Lyon, France.

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He fell on pitch at the 70th minutes and pronounced dead by a hospital two hours later.The Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack .
He was playing a televised game televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul. 

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Union Douala is the new leader of the league one championship after having walloped relegation threatened cosmos of Mbam 3-0 on the 15^th day of play over the weekend. Union has 27 points same as UMS of Loum but outsmarts UMS due to goal advantage. Meanwhile UMS dropped to the second position after playing a one-all draw against New Stars.

However the most spectacular rise on the point tally sheet is Coton Sport of Garoua who moved up two places to occupy the third position thanks to their 2-0 victory over Botafogo on the 15^th day of play. Unisport also moved two places up the league table to join the contention for leadership in the fourth position with barely three points away from the league leaders. Canon on the contrary dropped from the 4^th to the sixth position after having played a goalless draw against Aigle Royal. 

The situation at the middle of the table remains pretty stable with Yong Sport moving up from the 10^th to the 8^th position, same as Astres which moved from the 9^th to the seventh position after recording victories against Panthere and Eding Sport respectively over the weekend. Racing continued its downward glide and now occupies the 9^th position after bowing 0-1 to their fellow brothers from the West Region, Bamboutos. The status quo is maintained in the lower part of the table with Panthere, Aigle, Lion Blessé, and dragon remaining stagnant in the 12^th, 13^th, 14^th and 15^th positions respectively despite recording defeats on the 15^th day of play.

At the bottom of the table, Apejes, Cosmos and Botafogo continue languishing in the relegation zone with Apejes and Cosmos exchanging positions as Apejes moved one place up to the 16^th position thanks to the 1-1 draw against Lion Blessé and Cosmos moving down one place to the 17^th position after losing 0-3 to Union.

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