Healthy 14yo died on the pitch.

[Michey]

It's very scary when it happens.

This weekend a healthy swedish 14yo died on the pitch. He went into a tackle and controlled the ball with his chest and just fell to the ground where he stayed. He tried to push himself up with his arms and then just took his last breath and died.

It's like we see more and more of this....or if it's maybe noticed more in media. I don't know but it's very frightening when it happens.

 

[Kendall]

You get the feeling some of these players are just too finely tuned for their own health.

 

[Michey]

You get the feeling some of these players are just too finely tuned for their own health.

I agree when it comes to professionals. Practise sports on the highest level surely isn't healthy.

 

[Phantom]

Sad news indeed.

 

[Shanks]

It happens though, normally there is some hidden defect in the heart.

My sister in law died of a rare heart condition, which has effected a few footballers dropping dead suddenly.

It used to be called sudden death syndrome, but this particular disease is called (ARVD ( Arrhymthmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia)

The muscle as it naturally heals itself replaces itself with fat, instead of muscle. It is very very difficult to diagnose.

My wifes family are being used for genetic coding by the top heart doctor in London at the moment, he has been studying this for two years and is still not further down the line.

My wife is all clear at the moment, but its a progressive disease, thats gets worse as you get older.

 

[Dibby]

Wierd that this has come up as today was the day of a 16 year olds funeral over here.

He was in the same class as my cousin and was playing football.

Died of an asthma attack they think.

 

[SpursMad]

I don't think it is happening more than it did in the past though I don't have numbers to prove it. I just think we all hear more happenings that occur in other parts of the world due to wider media exposure (internet and more global news reporting).

Still a sad story...

 

[Rocksuperstar]

What can we put it down to though? You can't point solely at football and blame anything about the game that's doing it - despite the fact most of these appear to come from football matches, the law of averages says more people play football, from a much earlier age, than most other sports so it stands to reason that it's more likely to become obvious through that sport.

Is it diet? Is it the wrong exercise regime? Pollution?

Nope. I think my vote goes firmly with the lifestyles and age at which footballers are expected to peak now. If you want to be a successful footballer than it's likely you started playing at junior school, about the age of 6 or 7, maybe younger. You play for the school and you can get noticed when you reach a certain level and go on to trial for whichever side - all this revolves around your fitness - there's no way a football coach would look at a tubby kid with skills and give him a shot over an athletic kid with average talents.

In the days of yore, as it were, football was still a game. It was a passtime that you'd play evenings, or at the weekend over the marshes and, during the week, you'd be working. You'd have a profession that didn't revolve entirely around your temple of a body. With that in mind, there was no twice daily, 6 days a week training sessions, set menus to cater for diets or anything. It was just a case of playing around your life.

I honestly believe that too much cardio is very bad for a youngster, especially combined with the sole concentration of that - at least if they worked elsewhere it would 1) reduce their training time and the intensity at which it's done, and 2) give them a chance to develop the trickle-charge way - toughen up both inside and outside, get to grips with the world. You wouldn't have seen a penny for playing the game and, even when it did go pro, you'd not get considered for a contract if you were just a kid who had skills! You'd be told to finish school, then come back. To go find yourself a proper job then come see the manager when you'd grown up.

Now we have kids as young as 15 being considered for full professional status, we've got pushy parents making their kids work out, go jogging, swimming, keeping fit, c'mon, faster, faster - you want to be the best, don't you? well no-one remembers the losers, do it for mummy bollocks.

To be the best now you have to make sacrifices, unfortunately, two of them sacrifices are childhood and personal long-term health. Strain your lungs, strain your heart, do it by the age of 18 and you'll be a star. And risk overloading your inner workings and burning out essential parts that can't be shipped from the manufacturers.

 

[Bonjour]

My brother has / had sudden death syndrome.

Fantastic footballer. Can run around all day and is an all round great athlete. Every once in a while, though, he used to just pass out. He was monitored by heart specialists for a number of years, who said that the risk gets less as he gets older but that he did have the heart condition that leads to sudden death syndrome.

Something to do with the heart being too efficient, and once in a while half of the heart pumps too much for the other half to handle. Or something along those lines.

Basically, any one of the times that he passed out he was pretty close to 'sudden death'.

 

[Shanks]

Bonjour, you might want him to have a look at what I posted mate, cos thats really similiar to what was happening to my wifes family, before her sister actually died from it.

Its a realy rare condition and is very very difficult to diagnose.

The local hospitals have sent my brother in law home many many times blaming anxiety attacks. Even with the information from the top doc in london to hand they still brush it off with no apparent knowledge.

My wife had to give birth under strict monitoring because of this, but they didn't have a fucking clue about it.

 

[Bonjour]

Bonjour, you might want him to have a look at what I posted mate, cos thats really similiar to what was happening to my wifes family, before her sister actually died from it.

Its a realy rare condition and is very very difficult to diagnose.

The local hospitals have sent my brother in law home many many times blaming anxiety attacks. Even with the information from the top doc in london to hand they still brush it off with no apparent knowledge.

My wife had to give birth under strict monitoring because of this, but they didn't have a fucking clue about it.

Yeah. I've just actually read what you posted. Thanks mate. Sounds like he should actually still be pretty careful. He lives over in the states now, though.

Took them (heart clinic in London) years to come up with any kind of diagnosis for my brother. Attaching a heart monitor thing to him for weeks at a time, 24/7. Seemed like they didn't have a danny.

 

[Shanks]

yeah my wife has the same thing, now she has it done for 24 hours every 6 months.
So far, there are no signs of this disease, although her mum and both her brothers have it.

She already lost her sister, and her other brother to this disease, (her twin brother was still born, but no evidence of it in him).

 

[adzsim]

this is why players should not have such a strict diet, they eat too healthy stopping their body getting vital foods such as fats and carbs, really sad news though

 

[Kyras]

Is this what Miklos Feher died from?

At the time I remember reading something along the lines of his heart was too strong and was pumping the wrong amount of blood or something like that.

With him, it was solely to do witht he fact that he was a footballer/athlete.

Apparently Kanu got turned away from Inter as he has some sort of dodgy heart as well, it's amazing that people can be too fit.

 

[Bonjour]

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At the time I remember reading something along the lines of his heart was too strong and was pumping the wrong amount of blood or something like that.
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Yeah, that's what they said to my brother. Over-efficient heart that occasionally pumps too much blood from one half into the other.

End result: a super-athlete with the slight complication that he might drop dead at any minute.