Antonio Puerta dead

[johnnybluenose]

Goal.com - Spain - Antonio Puerta And Sudden Cardiac Death In Football

sad sad story...another footballer dies, this story outlines the history of heart failure related football tragedies.

I saw the "highlight/lowlight" of the incident where he collapsed and the center back for Sevilla thought he had swallowed his tongue on FSW report, but had no idea he had died... All they said that he was in hospital on resusitation or something in critical condition...

[5bigtoes]

awful news and very sad...

[djones]

He actually walked off the field under his own power and then collapsed again in the dressing room.

Very sad! This is becoming a situation that is either being reported on more or has increased over the last 10 years. Makes you wonder if there is more to it than a faulty heart.

[djones]

Coincidence or an underlying problem...

Third footballer collapses and dies in 10 days

Football was last night mourning the death of a third player in the space of 10 days after Chaswe Nsofwa, a former Zambia international, collapsed and died of heart failure during a training session with his Israeli club side, Hapoel Beersheba. The tragedy came less than 24 hours after Clive Clarke, the Leicester City player on loan from Sunderland, suffered a heart attack during Tuesday's League Cup tie at Nottingham Forest. Clarke was recovering in hospital yesterday.

On Tuesday afternoon the Spanish side Sevilla said their left-back, Antonio Puerta, had died after suffering "five cardio-respiratory stoppages". Little more than a week earlier Walsall's 16-year-old youth-team player Anton Reid inexplicably collapsed on the training ground and died. It is unprecedented that the sport should lose three players in such a short period and it prompted a demand that compulsory heart screening be brought in for all professional players in Britain.
Andy Scott, whose 13-year career was ended by heart problems, called on the Football Association and Professional Footballers' Association to introduce mandatory cardiac testing for all players.

"There is clearly no reason why a young person should die when they are in the prime of their career," said Scott, Brentford's assistant manager. "It's complete ignorance that this has not been taken further. This is an ideal opportunity now to make it compulsory for all players to be screened. How many times is it going to have to happen? Everyone knows it's going on but it's getting someone at the top to get off their backsides." The FA described such a move as a "strategic decision for the whole game". No one at the PFA could be contacted last night.

Nsofwa, a 27-year-old striker, was training in temperatures approaching 40C when he collapsed. Rescue workers spent several minutes trying to restart his heart before paramedics arrived. Attempts to revive Nsofwa, including using an external pacemaker, proved unsuccessful and the player was pronounced dead when he arrived at Soroka hospital.

[johnnybluenose]

It is like that Pandemic a few Summers back when all of the Football (NFL & NCAA) and Baseball guys were dropping and they chalked it all up to Ephedrin over-use...

Hard to speculate on an issue as sad as this...

But maybe these guys are trying to overclock their ticker with the "Fedrin"?
I know Puerta's thing was a congenital defect, it's not like it was self-induced, he had a bad ticker...but have heard nothing on the others...