Footballer Die

Today while reading through onliine news, noticed one shocking news. Those who watching football sure will know this person. Antonio Puerta, a Sevilla's defender had died at the age of 22. This sure not the first of it kinds, there are so many case such as Man City's Marc Vivian Foe, Brazilian Serginho, and another famous footballer was the Mikel Feher, who play for one of the top Portoguese Football club died due to heart failure.

What had happened , many many footballer die, they shuld reduce the number of game to play, and must check the player health report and shuldn;t let them play if got any problem with it no matter they are good o not. I don't wish there will be another talented young footballer died at such a young age, it a wasted and sad to lose such a calibre player.

A day to mourn for Antonio Puerta...
A day hopefully not to mourn about my mid term exam later >.<

"Spain mourns young Puerta
MADRID: Thousands of football fans thronged the
streets around Sevilla’s Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium yesterday to pay their last
respects to Antonio Puerta, who died three days after collapsing during a
Primera Liga match at the weekend.
The 22-year-old’s body was taken to
the stadium shortly after midnight local time where over 10,000 fans had
gathered during the evening.
The coffin, draped in the club’s centenary
banner and Spanish national flag, was taken into the stadium to the
accompaniment of spontaneous applause and chants of Puerta amigo, Sevilla esta
contigo (Puerta friend, Sevilla is with you).
Sevilla fans placed
prayer candles and tributes at the stadium doors, while lengthy queues formed to
file past the coffin to pay their last respects to the talented young
player.
Many supporters of Sevilla’s fierce city rivals Real Betis were
among those who had come to pay tribute to Puerta, who was born in the city’s
working class district of Triana.
Puerta’s team-mates went directly to
the stadium from the airport after returning from Athens where their Champions
League match against AEK had been postponed because of his
death.
Accompanied by club president Jose Maria del Nido, they filed
past the fans in silence and remained with the player’s family until 5am local
time.
Puerta’s girlfriend Mar Roldan is due to give birth to a son in
October.
Puerta was buried in the city’s San Fernando cemetery in the
afternoon yesterday.
Spain’s sports newspapers also paid homage to
Puerta.
“Antonio Puerta, the injustice of dying at the age of 22.
Why?” wrote sports daily Marca in its headline while daily newspaper La Razon
said: “The heart of football has stopped.”
In an editorial, top-selling
daily newspaper El Pais said Puerta’s death had touched the public and “raised
questions about the demands of professional sports”.
Sevilla have
scheduled four “high level” matches in just nine days, it
said.
Messages of condolence arrived from football clubs all over Spain
and Europe, while AC Milan, Sevilla’s opponents in tomorrow’s European Super Cup
final, have offered to postpone the game if the club wish.
Real Madrid
cancelled yesterday’s pre-season friendly against Sporting Lisbon, while
Barcelona have said they will give 10% of the gate money from their game against
Inter Milan to research into cardiovascular illness.
Puerta, who won
back-to-back UEFA Cups and the King’s Cup with Sevilla, collapsed after jogging
back towards his own goal 35 minutes into Saturday’s game against
Getafe.
Although he was able to walk off the pitch he collapsed again
in the changing rooms and had to be given cardiac resuscitation before being
taken to hospital.
He was treated in the hospital’s intensive care unit
but was unable to recover from the after-effects of several prolonged cardiac
arrests.
Medical experts consulted by the Spanish media said that the
collapse was precipitated by a weakness in the right ventricle of the player’s
heart that can cause arrhythmias.
They said that even though the player
was reported to have fainted on two previous occasions, the problem was
extremely difficult to detect and was unlikely to show up in medical
tests.
It is not the first time a Sevilla player has died after
collapsing on the pitch.
Striker Pedro Berruezo died as a result of a
heart ailment when he collapsed during a Second Division match against
Pontevedra in 1973 at the age of 27.
Berruezo’s wife was pregnant at
the time and her son, Pedro, is now a professional footballer with Segunda B
side (Third Division) Ceuta. – Agencies "