Off Topic RIP thread - June

Cheick Tioté, terrible news, made worse by leaving a pregnant wife. Truely sad. He was a grafter and a decent larker. RIP
 
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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.
 
PLT said:
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.
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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.
 
PLT said:
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.
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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.

John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. said:
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.
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