Former PSG midfielder and Cameroon Olympic champion Modest Mbami dies at 40.

The Parisian club announced the tragic news on its Twitter page..

According to media reports, Mbami could not survive a heart attack. Mbami is known for playing for the French PSG and Marseille.. He also managed to play for the Spanish Almeria, the Chinese Changchun Yatai, the Saudi Al-Ittihad, the Colombian Millionarios and the French Le Havre, which became his last club.. Modest retired in 2015.

Mbami is the 2000 Olympic champion in the Cameroon national team. He is also familiar to Ukrainian fans, because in 2009 he played with Marseille against Shakhtar in the 1/4 finals of the UEFA Cup. Then the Donetsk club went further in the sum of two matches and became the triumphant of the European tournament, beating Werder Bremen in the final.

Recall that in December last year, the famous Serbian football player and coach Sinisa Mihajlovic died of leukemia.. Also, at the end of 2022, the legendary Brazilian football player Pele died..