In the span of just a few days in 2007, three young football players were lost to sudden cardiac arrest. Antonio Puerto of Sevilla was stricken during a game. Zambian striker Chaswe Nsofwa collapsed in a training match. Anton Reid of Walsall FC died during a training session.
Each is sad evidence that cardiac death can strike people of all ages – even athletes at the pinnacle of physical fitness. And it was a reminder about the vulnerability of the football world, where sudden cardiac arrest had claimed Cameroon’s Marc-Vivien Foé in 2003 and Hungarian striker Mikós Fehér in 2004. Video captured Fehér walking and smiling – just 20 seconds before his heart stopped and he fell to the field, unconscious, never to rise again.
Sudden cardiac arrest can happen on the pitch anywhere, and it could happen at your club’s football game next week.
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