The player, José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, was involved in a regional tournament game between two low-level local teams, C.D.

A lighting strike during a local league soccer match in central Peru killed one player and injured four others on Sunday.

Teams in a local tournament in the Andean highlands east of Lima were leaving the pitch amid a weather delay when lightning ...

TMZ reports that in the midst of a soccer match on Sunday (Nov. 3) between the Juventud Bellavista and Familia Chocca at Coto ...

A Peruvian football player was killed and several more were injured after being struck by lightning in the middle of a match.

A tragic incident in a lower-division match in Peru saw a lightning strike claim the life of a player of the pitch.

Though lightning has struck football matches in Peru before, causing injuries, the weekend incident was the first known ...

Lightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured four others during a football match in the Peruvian Andes.

José Hugo de la Cruz Meza, a 39-year-old defender for Familia Chocca, died Nov. 3 after being struck by lightning during a televised soccer game in Peru.

A soccer player was killed by a lightning strike during a game on Sunday in Peru, according to Peruvian state news service Andina and Reuters. José Hugo De ...

Lightning has killed a 34-year-old player and injured four others during a football match in the Peruvian Andes.

A local Peruvian soccer match was called off due to weather, but as players left the field, lighting struck, killing one man ...