Me too, I thought the earlier ones were better than the later ones. He was a wonderful Character actor. RIP
Dear me... Ed Aarons @ed_aarons Even more tragically am told Cheick Tioté's wife is expecting a baby this week.
RIP CT. Hard to comprehend. Here's one to remember him by. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40163322
Cheick Tioté, terrible news, made worse by leaving a pregnant wife. Truely sad. He was a grafter and a decent larker. RIP
Cheick Tioté. Uncompromising player and, at his best, a true force to be reckoned with. A lovely guy as well, by all accounts. RIP.
Are these sudden heart attacks in footballers becoming more common? Seems like it. Could it be something to do with the training that pro footballers do? Could more be done to screen these issues? As well as being sad it just strikes me as strange how it seems to be more and more common.
It is fair to say that games of football these days are more demanding physically that they used to be. What appears to be happening is that players that must have an undetected underlying heart problem, which is not being detected with the medicals they go through, are pushing their heart to a point whereby it cannot take the overload. It seems to be that much more in depth screening needs to be done to detect these condition before they become fatal. As an example James Taylor the cricketer had to retire at an early age, because it was picked up he had an underlying heart condition, which if he carried on playing could have been fatal.
It does seem to be more prevalent. As John points out - more strain as modern football is much quicker. I guess you only need to look at the use of new stats used where teams and players have distance covered during matches as a key indicator. More needs to be done with regards to player screening now. It is becoming a regular occurrence and it's terrible to know he's leaving behind a wife 2 children and a 3rd on the way. You'd have thought with medical screening these days it would be easy to screen for any underlying defects.
A few years ago I visited someone in hospital in Beijing, I just hope Tioté wasn't taken to that one. Just saying like.
