Another four football (soccer to my American friends) matches were halted today due to medical emergencies in the stands.
What is going on with the beautiful game? These emergencies seem to be happening more and more recently, both with players and spectators. Football is an intense game to play and, with the intense passion football fans have for the game, to watch too.
However, there does not seem to have been this many medical emergencies in previous years. Is it being reported more or are there new procedures to stop games immediately? Maybe, but it is becoming noticeably obvious with more and more people questioning what is happening.
They are becoming so common, the same doctor has saved two people within the space of months.
According to this Twitter thread (which I know can’t be used as evidence but is interesting anecdotally all the same), there has been a 500% increase in deaths of FIFA players in 2021. 183 professional athletes and coaches have suddenly collapsed, 108 of them died.
If COVID was the reason you would have expected a rise in 2020, however, the rates were pretty low. Vaccines are the obvious go-to answer for this terrifying trend.
Perhaps the 2021 variants have affected the heart more or it’s the spike protein whichever way it gets into your body (wild lab-created virus or lab-created vaccine).
Is this happening at such a high frequency in other sports?
A quick look through the news gives an array of similar stories for football matches over the past few months:
26 January 2022 – LEISURE center staff who administered emergency first-aid on a teenage boy who collapsed on a football pitch have been praised for their actions
24 January 2022 – Doctor helps save collapsed Blackburn Rovers fan at Middlesbrough match
22 January 2022 – Sadness as fan who collapsed during Bacup Borough FC match dies
9 January 2022 – Mali star Ousmane Coulibaly suffers heart attack during a game and needs emergency treatment
3 January 2022 – Marcos Menaldo dead: Deportivo Marquense star, 25, dies after cardiac arrest in training
3 January 2022 – Cambridge United fan ‘doing well’ after collapsing at match
2 January 2022 – Gateshead football fan discharged from hospital after collapsing at Blyth Spartans game
1 January 2022 – Watford vs Tottenham STOPPED due to ‘medical emergency in stands’ as physios from both clubs rush into the crowd to help
December 2021 – Four footballers and one coach died as a result of cardiac issues or football-related injuries.
25 December 2021 – Sofiane Lokar dead: Footballer, 30, collapses and dies during a game on Christmas Day
23 December 2021 – Oman international Mukhaled Al-Raqadi dies aged 29 after collapsing in a warm-up before Muscat FC match
21 December 2021 – Man collapses at Kettering U10’s football match as spectators give CPR
20 December 2021 – Croatian footballer Marin Cacic tragically dies aged 23 following collapse in training
6 December 2021 – Devastated partner of ex-footballer Marvin Morgan – who became fashion designer to the stars after health fears forced him to quit playing – reveals he collapsed and died on a work trip abroad
5 December 2021 – Carlisle City FC release update on young player who collapsed during a game
1 December 2021 – Fan collapses at Southampton moments after supporter has cardiac arrest at Watford
30 November 2021 – St Ives Football Club help collapsed Bromsgrove fan at match
26 November 2021 – Three players collapsed this week, while Sergio Aguero suffered a cardiac arrhythmia in a match last month and an Icelandic player had to be resuscitated
25 November 2021 – Charlie Wyke: Wigan striker stable in hospital after collapsing during training
24 November 2021 – John Fleck rushed to hospital after Sheffield United star collapses in worrying scenes
24 November 2021 – Sheriff Tiraspol’s Adama Traore goes down clutching chest sparking concern vs Real Madrid
2 November 2021 – Emil Palsson: Footballer collapses from cardiac arrest during a game in Norway
October 2021 – Dr. Tom Prichard was a fan at a Newcastle game when he ended up performing CPR on a collapsed member of the crowd
28 October 2021 – Ghana’s Raphael Dwamena in stable condition after collapsing during a match
18 October 2021 – Man’s life saved by friends after he collapses on Keighley football pitch
5 September 2021 – Young footballer dies after West Bridgford match collapse
16 August 2021 – Samuel Kalu: Bordeaux striker collapses during Ligue 1 match against Marseille before briefly returning to the pitch
19 July 2021 – Man ‘collapses’ and dies after suffering ‘heat stroke’ while ‘playing football’ on the hottest day of the year
2 July 2021 – Football fan collapses and dies in front of family in pub while celebrating Harry Kane’s goal
12 Jun 2021 – Danish international Christian Eriksen collapsed in a match between Denmark and Finland
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[…] that in his career he doesn’t remember a single game being halted for a medical emergency in the crowd, as he commented on the fact that this is now happening week in and week out since crowds were […]