SiameseJesus Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 RIP [web]http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/7163680[/web] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUENUT Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 OMG.....I was watching the game when it happened, I thought he'd been hit by something in the crowd because it was off the ball. RIP - terrible for his family! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moos Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 It's really sad when these things happen but it also makes me angry. A normal healthy young man don't just get an heart attack. So he must have had something wrong with his heart. And if that's the case why didn't anyone find out about it? I thought that players were tested for heart problems nowadays? I think that most players are tested in Sweden, even the young ones. Since so many deaths has happened in the last few years every player should be tested so that we can prevent things like this happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abramovich Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 R.I.P. This is so sad. I understand that his girlfriend is in the late months of pregnancy which makes it even more tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barn Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 A terrible terrible thing to happen. RIP and our thoughts go out to those close to him. Moos, unfortunately you're wrong. Sometimes things happen to people that we medically still don't understand. He would have been checked to ensure that his heart was strong and healthy yet this still happened. No point in being angry just be sorry for anyone that is ever affect by such a tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canbeas Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Rest in peace. Good player. It was horrible to see this happen on TV, especially when one Sevilla player tried to prevent Puerta from swallowing his tongue. Sad day for football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gem Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Truely tragic news out of all the stories of people dying recently (morbid I know, the only way to sum it up for me though) this has shocked me the most. 22 and a heart attack... he must have been getting regular check ups by Seville like I'm sure most footballers do for their club. See them on heart monitors all the time Wishes go to his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea Bar Boy Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Very sad news RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInBlue Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Sad to see such a thing happen to such a young footballer. R.I.P Antonio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauren Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 sadly Moos you are wrong, my brother in law died from a heart defect and heart attack at 36. The nurse in the family room that night told my sister and me that young men between 20 and 35 have a high incidence of unexplained heart attacks. very sad nonetheless. My sister was also pregnant (with the 4th) when this happened 13 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Very sad. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loz Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Horrible news and we can only hope that this doesn't have as tragic an outcome http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot ... 963502.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 As I understand it, Puerta had fainted a few times in the past and had several examinations to determine the cause just this past summer - nothing showed up. Maybe it was something that has to have a number of influences before it manifested itself - stress, humidity, heat, dehydration - I don't know. Very, very sad when this sort of thing happens to a seemingly healthy sportsman - lets just hope the guy from Leicester is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canbeas Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 this has certainly been a bad week for football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboola69 Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Its a shocker. Recently made his international debut. Sevilla boy, playing for hometown club, baby on the way. Its just so crappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clubhappy Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Shocked , incredibly sad and difficult to believe somebody so young could pass away with a great future ahead. A Dublin GAA footballer also died last Sunday evening , not sure of the details but a terrible week for sport. Just hope the Leicester player recovers . Devastating . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moos Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 It's quite wierd really. My mother called me last night and I told her that the player had died (didn't use his name because she will forget it anyway ). She then said that these things seemed to happen in periods. When one dies, more dies around the same time. I didn't think so much of it but when I then went on the internet I saw the news about that Leicester-player. He's not dead but still, it was quite a coincidence. Anyway. Is there any truth in what my mother said? Does the heart-related deaths all happen at once? It kinda feels as if it's true, though it probably isnt. And while we're still on the subject I just wondered how many players in England who are tested for heart problems? Is it just the professionals or does every player in a team have to be tested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerie Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Cycling is a sport that, for the last few years especially, has seen some sudden deaths from athletes. The sport has a bad reputation for performance-enhancing drugs, and the deaths were inevitably linked to drug abuse. Of course I don't want to insinuate something , not knowing anything about the circumstances, but drug abuse can't be ruled out as a cause of death for young, fit sports men and women, among them football players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeyMS Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Very sad news! Tragedy for football world!! Great player with great expectations.....very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Very sad news and, like others have said, my thoughts are with the Leicester player, fingers crossed he pulls through... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 A Dublin GAA footballer also died last Sunday evening , not sure of the details but a terrible week for sport. Suicide, tragically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
german-blue Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 f**king sh*t RIP ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moos Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Another player dead Chaswe Nsofwa who plays for Hapoel Beersheba in Israel died today. Cause of death is apparently unknown at the moment. What the heck is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomP Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Cycling is a sport that, for the last few years especially, has seen some sudden deaths from athletes. The sport has a bad reputation for performance-enhancing drugs, and the deaths were inevitably linked to drug abuse. Of course I don't want to insinuate something , not knowing anything about the circumstances, but drug abuse can't be ruled out as a cause of death for young, fit sports men and women, among them football players. Speaking from a medical perspective, there are two main reasons why heart-attacks in otherwise young, fit and healthy individuals occur: 1. Unfortunately, as Valarie pointed out, the increased use of performance enhancing drugs - which are linked to a vast range of cardiac-related side effects. 2. Congential cardiac abnormalities - in particular a condition where one of the coronary arteries (which supply blood/oxygen to the heart muscle) follows an unusual course between the aorta and pulmonary artery, causing it to become blocked when the heart is under stress. It is basically a very unlucky birth defect that approximately 1 in 50,000 of us. Unfortunately, these types of abnormalities are exceedingly difficult to pick up with standard cardiac testing. It is definately not something that the club's medical team should be blamed for not picking up - unfortunately, these abnormalities are usually only pick up after a heart attack has occured, which can often be too late. It's like trying to find and fix problems with your plumbing in your house when you have never had a water leak anywhere before. These deaths are always particularly tragic, as they strike down people young people in the prime of their lives, who are amongst the most physically fit people going around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasz Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 What the heck is going on? I wonder myself. Season just started. Maybe it's a matter of wrong pre-season preparations? Don't really know but I can think of 2 explanations. First of all Valerie may be right. What I have on mind are not necessarily some illegal substances, but it may have something to do with all the medicines that are used when player is injured. Nowadays footballers recover from sometimes really serious injuries in no time. I'm afraid that their overall health is often less important than just making them able to play. As for what your mother said I wonder if the explanation isn't prosaic. Maybe things like that happen more often than we think, but only when something bad happens to a well known player, it gets the media attention and because of it, similar events hit the news for some time after... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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