He died the player Maicon in a traffic accident

Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian striker Shakhtar Donetsk, died Saturday in a car accident in Donetsk. The Ukrainian club confirmed the news.

Shakhtar expressed his condolences to the family of the player, who was 25. "He was a talented footballer, open and friendly. Terrible and it's a tough loss for us all. Maicon was only 25," reads the statement from Shakhtar.

Maicon, who was born in Rio de Janeiro, signed by the Ukrainian champions in 2012, but only wore the shirt of the miners, and that was loaned to Zarya and Ilichevets where currently playing.

The late footballer landed in Ukraine in 2009, when he joined the modest Volyn Lutsk in the second division, which helped up by scoring 13 goals in just 18 games. To the maximum Ukrainian division scored 37 goals in 65 games, performance earned him two seasons ago the attention of the best club in the country.

With T Ilichevets had scored three goals this season in 13 games played before the traditional winter break.