Fabian O'Neill, hailed by Zidane as the 'most talented player ever', passes away at 49
The Hindu
Former Uruguay international midfielder Fabian O’Niell passed away after a long battle with alcoholism
Former Uruguay international midfielder Fabian O'Neill, once hailed by Zinedine Zidane as "the most talented player" he'd ever seen, died Sunday after a long battle with alcoholism. He was 49.
"Goodbye Wizard," tweeted O'Neill's formative club Nacional after he passed away due to chronic cirrhosis in a Montevideo hospital where he had been rushed on Saturday suffering from a hemorrhage.
"The most talented player I've ever seen," was how French World Cup winner Zidane, a teammate at Juventus, described O'Neill.
After making his debut for Nacional at the age of 18 in 1992, O'Neill was transferred to Cagliari in Italy three years later.
In 2000, he moved to Juventus but after playing for the Turin giants for just one season, he was farmed out to Perugia.
He then returned to Nacional before quitting in 2003.
O'Neill earned 19 caps for Uruguay and scored two goals.
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