US player dies

American basketball player Kevin Wildemond died during the half-time interval of Sunday's meeting between his club Ovarense and Academica in the central Portuguese town of Leiria, his team announced.

"At the interval, the player was sitting down in the dressing room... He was listening to the coach when he fell down," club official Jose Eduardo told the Lusa news agency.

"He was suffering from convulsions and was immediately attended to by a doctor, who carried out cardiac massage, but he died."

Wildemond was taken to the Santo Andre hospital in Leiria, but staff there were unable to revive him.

The match was abandoned and an autopsy is to be carried out on Wildemond's body on Monday.

LISBON, Monday AFP