Icy
08-28-2007, 11:28 AM
The young Spanish player Antonio Puerta died today after being 3 days in the hospital.
It all started past Saturday. He was playing in the first season game when after a run, he felt to the grass suffering a heart attack. His team mates and team doctors ran towards him and managed to recover him thinking it was just a seizure. Then he walked to the medical room and once inside, he had another stroke. The meds managed to recover him again and he was moved to the hospital. He suffered 3 more strokes in the ambulance and later in the hospital. Again the doctors managed to recover his life, but his brain was heavily damaged already and he died today at 22 years old.
Antonio Puerta was one of the biggest promises in Spanish and European soccer. He was the starting wingback in Sevilla 1st division team and also recently in the Spanish national team. Life looked great for him until now, climbing to the top of the soccer world with a huge new contract signed, being called to the national team and expecting a baby as his couple is pregnant.
It seems that he had genetic illness in his heart that nobody noticed until now, even being a pro athlete. The meds said that is a rare illness that can be only detected by a heart magnetic resonance that is not something you perform one somebody unless he had problems before, that was not the case on Puerta.
R.I.P Antonio Puerta, this is a huge lost for his family, friends and the soccer world :(
It all started past Saturday. He was playing in the first season game when after a run, he felt to the grass suffering a heart attack. His team mates and team doctors ran towards him and managed to recover him thinking it was just a seizure. Then he walked to the medical room and once inside, he had another stroke. The meds managed to recover him again and he was moved to the hospital. He suffered 3 more strokes in the ambulance and later in the hospital. Again the doctors managed to recover his life, but his brain was heavily damaged already and he died today at 22 years old.
Antonio Puerta was one of the biggest promises in Spanish and European soccer. He was the starting wingback in Sevilla 1st division team and also recently in the Spanish national team. Life looked great for him until now, climbing to the top of the soccer world with a huge new contract signed, being called to the national team and expecting a baby as his couple is pregnant.
It seems that he had genetic illness in his heart that nobody noticed until now, even being a pro athlete. The meds said that is a rare illness that can be only detected by a heart magnetic resonance that is not something you perform one somebody unless he had problems before, that was not the case on Puerta.
R.I.P Antonio Puerta, this is a huge lost for his family, friends and the soccer world :(