(13 Jun 2015, 7:49 pm)Andreos1 wrote Feel wholeheartedly sorry for the guys family, but I don't understand how these apparent heart defects are not found in a medical.
Something needs to be done, as it is happening far too often now.
Exactly...
Before this recent batch of deaths, it had happened enough, Marc Vivien-Foe, Antonio Puerta, Miklos Feher, Matt Gadsby, Phil O'Donnell to name a few, there has also been schoolkids dying
I think all Football Clubs/Grounds in the UK were required to have a defibrillator after Fabrice Muamba, I'm not 100% sure on that though
This should be extended to clubs in the world with a physio in each Club trained to use it, it would be worth it if it saved 1 life somewhere.
I often wonder how rigorous a medical at a football club are, I would have thought any kind of heart defect would show long before someone dies of it, so how could it be done, would more regular medicals do it, say, 1 a year during Pre-Season training...
But it is happening a lot and needs to be looked at