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All football in Argentina is suspended after San Martin Burzaco's Emanuel Ortega, 21, dies following a double skull fracture in a fifth division match. WARNING: contains distressing pictures.

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A 21-year-old footballer has died in Argentina after colliding with a concrete wall that surrounded the pitch.

According to a report by Argentinian news agency Clarin, Emanuel Ortega was declared dead in the early hours of Thursday morning, after fracturing his skull in a match two weeks ago.

Ortega, who played for San Martin de Burzaco in Argentina's fifth tier, went shoulder-to-shoulder with a player from Juventud Unida but crashed head first into a concrete wall just a meter from the touchline.

The right-back had spent 11 days in the intensive care unit at the Sanatorio Mitre medical facility in Balvanera after having emergency surgery on a double skull fracture.

The Argentine Football Association has suspended all domestic action this weekend following Ortega's death as a mark of respect.