Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)

Diego Mendieta

Paraguayan footballer (1980–2012)

Diego Mendieta was a Paraguayan professional footballer who played as a forward. His death on 3 December 2012 reportedly caused by cytomegalovirus, an easily treatable disease, sparked international outrage after it was made known that his club Persis Solo refused to pay his…