Benfica player Feher died on pitch

[Stapel]

Man, that was sad. Really freaking amazing. Gets a yellow card, smiles it away, and drops down dead....

 

[WickedSmurf]

Yeah I just saw it here... Terrible... Awful... So sudden!

 

[Hitro]

Also saw it on TV. Quite disturbing.

 

[SanPellegrino]

terrible.

why is it that young healthy football players drop dead (don't recall the name of the player that died in France). Maybe it is time to sharpen the lax doping controls in football. they don't check as nearly as often as e.g. track athletes.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

[url]http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=footballNewsUK&storyID=4206391&section=news[/URL] gives a bit of background on player deaths in football.

Particularly weird / tragic is;

"In 15 months between 1999 and 2001, four Romanian players died after collapsing"

 

[Shabbaman]

It's a real pity. Amazing how things like this happen...

 

[Lifeblood]

The tragic part is he had 2 week old son. Oh well. Such is life.

 

[Suppersalmon]

first Foe dies on a pitch now Feher its a shame

 

[Ville]

That was shocking when I saw that on tv

 

[col]

Happened here - a local 14 year old dropped dead on the pitch last year - and if I remember correctly didnt Terry Yorath's son die that way too.

 

[jeriko one]

I think FIFA has to change the scheduling and number of the matches. It is the 2nd case in 6 months. Hope there will be no unfortunate events like this in football.

 

[Dell19]

Hmm except we don't know whether it was actually because of too many games or just bad luck and coincidence... Sadly apart from international competitions its hard to see how the games could be spread out more. There could be a reduction in the sizes of the top divisions but there would still be Euro games and of course some teams would lose their top flight status.

 

[phoenix_night]

I don't think reducing the sizes of the top divisions will help. The Premier League, for example, is smaller than the old first division, yet this seems to be a modern phenomenon. Also, if you look at the two cases col mentioned, I doubt those were as a result of too many fixtures.

 

[Dell19]

Yep but playing lots of intense games in very hot weather can't help...

 

[Inter4]

Maybe it has to be with the person. I mean maybe some very few players are not made to play intensively due to some kind of heart problems or something. I don't know anything about it, I'm just guessing..

 

[Hitro]

Guys he was on the pitch for 30 minutes, hardly exhaustion...

Doping is a possibility or a completely different thing, but blaming it on some alledgedly "too hard" schedule is ridiculous.

 

[WickedSmurf]

This monday a 30-year old Swedish player, Andreas Csurolyais, in the lower divisions died during training due to heart failure.


Picture of the flowers left on the training ground in southern Sweden where he died.

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Hitro
Guys he was on the pitch for 30 minutes, hardly exhaustion...

I was basing my comments more on the game when Foe died, hence the reference to warm weather...

Sad to see another player die

 

[MCdread]

Well, the autopsy didn't come to any conclusion, as the one on Foé didn't either, so unless further exams come to something, speculating on what caused the heart attack is just that, speculation.
A terrible thing to happen.

 

[Ville]

Originally posted by WickedSmurf
This monday a 30-year old Swedish player, Andreas Csurolyais, in the lower divisions died during training due to heart failure.

That's terrible. Now 2 players have died in very short time