Having suffered something related, i.e. LVH Left Ventricular Hypertrophy ( slight thickening of one chamber..usually caused by hypertension, but occasionally by over excercise )...I did some research.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a genetic disease relating to a weakness of individual muscle fibres of the heart, causes deaths in 1 in 500, and is the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes.
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I was amazed to see that the late Antonio Puerta of Sevilla was the second player from the club to die in such tragic circumstances.
A Seville player died of a heart attack on the pitch in 1973. In another sad coincidence, his wife was expecting a baby at the time of his death.
The son he never saw grew up to play soccer in the Spanish lower leagues.
Sorry if this should be in the world football thread, but I thought the similarities to Clive Clarke's plight made it relevant.
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Less Moaning
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Every club/ ground should be equipped with a defibrillator and trained people to use it. Obviously saved Clive Clarke's life last night...
Super stuff by the medical team. Also hats off to Colin Calderwood who handled the situation superbly.
Definitely agree with you .
Defibrilators are essential and can be the difference between life and death.
Cork City were given one a few weeks ago by a guy callled Stephen Comerford, he presented it to the club on the pitch at half time
Stephen's brother died from a heart attack when he was only 15 while he was playing a football match in Cork.
Very sad
low lie the fields of Bishopstown......
That's the same player isn't it?
It's funny how someone can be perfectly healthy one minute and then something like that happens without warning. In a way he was lucky it happened where it did because it meant trained medical people were on
hand, however unfortunately in this case their efforts were unable to revive him. Glad I was not the referee.
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the lad in sligomans video died. i was actually nearly heaving looking at it, terrible.![]()
I'm gonna move this to world football.
I can't watch it again.
He was a Hungarian who played with Benfica, one second did some time wasting, got booked, walked away smiling to the ref and then dropped lifeless in slow motion to the grass. The other players were just in shock walking round in a daze.
There was or is a special 8min utube tribute to him which includes the tv footage of the incident on the pitch and his funeral. It's hard to watch such a thing.
Portugese tv showed the incident repeatedly on their news programs.
I just don't get that, its morbid.
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