Another football tragedy

[PeterParker]

Another football tragedy. Patrick Ekeng of Dinamo Bucharest died on the pitch. very similar to MVF

https://youtu.be/ORhmgw3eHkQ

Ps: Explicit content

[Mase]

That was horrible to watch!
RIP

[london blue 2]

Tragic. So so horrible. Players look messed up and rightly so.

Life can be so cruel.

Rip

[nottsblue]

Awful to watch. So sad.

[PeterParker]

I added a warning to the initial post.

[sidSmith]

Very sad. Players and coaching staff understandably looked shell shocked. Even seeing their reaction, doctors and an ambulance on the pitch, I see the fans are still jeering and whistling like a bunch of pricks. Anyway, puts this game of ours into perspective. RIP.

[PeterParker]

Very sad. Players and coaching staff understandably looked shell shocked. Even seeing their reaction, doctors and an ambulance on the pitch, I see the fans are still jeering and whistling like a bunch of pricks. Anyway, puts this game of ours into perspective. RIP.

They were whistling and shouting at the ambulance to enter more rapidly. The stadiums is really fucked up, the nickname is actually the pit. very hard to get in.

[BlueinBosnia]

RIP

I hope Harry Redknapp claims to have tried to sign you wherever we may go one day.

[Socrates]

Truly awful :( The other players seemed to sense straight away that he was a goner, Not a time for black humour btw.

[Fidel Castro]

Awful. So sad. Apparently the ambulance didn't even have basic reanimation equipment? Hope to sky dad that isn't true...

[ruralblue]

Jesus poor bloke.

[aaron bond]

Very very sad. Only 26 years old.

Condolences to his family.

[PeterParker]

Awful. So sad. Apparently the ambulance didn't even have basic reanimation equipment? Hope to sky dad that isn't true...

There will be a lot of words written about this, but seems so.

Seems like the ambulance took 2:45 minutes to get to him, plus, one of the "doctors" was eating sunflower seeds and was convinced he will be ok, before they realised it was bad.

What I am more amazed is that was a private ambulance, not one provided by the public system. And they did not have the basics in it, like oxygen masks and so on.

Funny enough, at the same type, there was a big protest on the streets, that is why the stadium looked abandoned. People were protesting against ... guess, what ... yeah, the corrupt medical system. There was a media link that found out that the hospitals use disinfectant that is actually toxic and was responsible for many deaths at the Colectiv Club fire disaster in november.

Makes you sick. Horror movie.

[Nigels Tackle]

horrific
wonder if players of african descent are more likely to suffer these kind of heart issues?

[SomeMichaelGuy]

horrific
wonder if players of african descent are more likely to suffer these kind of heart issues?

It would appear so, though why seems less clear: http://m.circ.ahajournals.org/content/125/4/620.short

Also,

Some athlete subgroups, specifically men, African-American/black athletes and basketball players, appear to be at higher risk [of sudden cardiac death].

http://m.bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/15/1185.short

Anyway, poor guy - horrible to see.

[Tokyo Blue]

His poor family.

RIP.

[Sister of fu]

Awful. So sad. Apparently the ambulance didn't even have basic reanimation equipment? Hope to sky dad that isn't true...

I'm watching that thinking they don't look like they know what they are doing. The guy attending to him looked like he was trying to pull his tongue out like he had swallowed it. Not nice to watch and puts things in perspective.

[PeterParker]

I know it will be a very difficult read, but try and have a look with google translate on this

http://www.prosport.ro/fotbal-intern/do ... t-15289432

One of the best romanian sports article ever. It is about the ”Doctor of Death”, the doctor of Dinamo and how Eastern football teams use their influence and ”solve” the heart test players have when they are taking the medical.

So. Seems like Ekeng did not take the heart test before he signed.