Benfica Striker Dies

[Pat's missing Gerbil]

i think FIFA should put the onus on the clubs, ensuring regular rigorous medical tests are performed, especially for top flight clubs. lower clubs dont have as much money to afford this, so maybe more lax rules for them.

we cant let any more people die on the pitch. its not good for the playes and its not good from the game. hopefully FIFA will learn from this latest tragedy.

i can only speak for what the FA do. All clubs in england across all four divisions have to a screening medical examination, electrocardiograph and cardiac ultrasound examination for a player to have professional status. All players signing for big clubs get a very thorough medical examination and investigation prior to signing.

I am afraid the event of sudden cardiac death would not be predictable on such tests. Its cause is due to sudden electrical chaos within the heart and the heart's regular beating stops. This can occur in athlete's heart because of their training changing the muscular structure of the heart. It can occur in an athelete for the same reason as most of us ie a blood clot forming in one of the blood vessels to the heart and disrupting the blood supply to the heart muscle which in turn leads to electrical chaos. The trick to surviving such events is to have people able to CPR and not stop it because it may upset the croud. It is also fundemental to have early defibrillation to shock the heart out of the electrical chaos. I believe that if both of these atheletes had early recognition of the event, early continuous CPR, and early defibrillation, that there would have been a good chance that they would have survived intact. What is criminal is that they did not get it.

All we can do to predict whether an athelete is fit for his sport is look at the heart to see if the muscular structure is not too disordered (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and that they have no valvular heart disease (eg Kanu had aortic valve stenosis and required aortic valve replacement). I am afraid that there are seldom definite ways of predicting where lightening will strike. You have to deal with the consequences. It is the ineptness of the way in which this has been done that concerns me.

 

[lewdikris]

Well said mate. The simple fact is that two deaths of a similar kind within a year shows that these tragedies can and will happen - and that measures need to be put in place to counter them. Extremely fit people are just as likely to suffer from heart attacks as the rest of us - more so in many ways, because they put their bodies under a level of pressure most of us can never dream of. Just look at those monitoring tests Freddie did for Adidas the other week - running 19ks, and standing still only for 12 seconds in 90 minutes. That's serious hard work.

The measures Pat mentions simply HAVE to be put in place, or lightning might strike for a third time. It's both the clubs and FIFA's duel responsibility to act. Now.

RIP Feher.

 

[thegame24]

hey lewd, what tests did freddie do?

 

[Pat's missing Gerbil]

hey lewd, what tests did freddie do?

it was nothing out of the ordinary in terms of analysis. wenger has done this with all his players for some years. It was a typical game analysis of a player and illustrates wenger's sport's science. I am sorry i forget where it was published but i think there was a link in the arsenal talk section.

Basically all players are analysed continuously during the game. Most midfielders do about 15km per game. This was an article showing freddie's individual output in a game (inter home). Wenger uses this to see if his players are tiring etc. Three good examples are that apparently Wenger knew that Pires was tiring before his knee injury as his output had fallen. When paddy was moaning that he was tired a while ago his output figures had gone up during games so no mid season holiday for mr vieira. Thirdly he never takes TH14 off because he knows that resting our Tel for 10-15 minutes at the end of a game which is won makes no difference to his perfomance as TH14 is one of the most outstanding natural athletes.

 

[RocktheCasbah]

Thirdly he never takes TH14 off because he knows that resting our Tel for 10-15 minutes at the end of a game which is won makes no difference to his perfomance as TH14 is one of the most outstanding natural athletes.

I never knew that! Interesting..

 

[thegame24]

cool.

 

[Gunner4life09]

R.I.P Feher.