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If you guys have seen SportsCenter today you may have heard the news that Bolton's Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch today vs Tottenham in an FA Cup match. Currently he is in Critical Condition at a London Hospital. Prayers go out to him and his family.
This however has become a reoccurring theme in Soccer. I feel like it happens every year. I remember watching a Portuguese soccer match in 2003 with my father and Benfica's Miklos Feher dying of a heart attack on the pitch. Their have also been many incidents since.
These are some of the most well-conditioned athletes in the world. An average Soccer player runs 11-13 miles a game. I'm sure their eating habits aren't bad but it seems to me 1-2 players collapse during games every season. Maybe the body can only take so much? Just seems so odd to me because it never happens in American Sports but then again, no one runs as much in games here.
This was today, crowd in shock.
This however has become a reoccurring theme in Soccer. I feel like it happens every year. I remember watching a Portuguese soccer match in 2003 with my father and Benfica's Miklos Feher dying of a heart attack on the pitch. Their have also been many incidents since.
These are some of the most well-conditioned athletes in the world. An average Soccer player runs 11-13 miles a game. I'm sure their eating habits aren't bad but it seems to me 1-2 players collapse during games every season. Maybe the body can only take so much? Just seems so odd to me because it never happens in American Sports but then again, no one runs as much in games here.
This was today, crowd in shock.