Attributing Heart Attack to One Reason Is Misleading

Academician and Coach Dr. Selçuk TARAKCI evaluated that Denmark footballer Christian Eriksen came back from the dead due to hearth attack during the European Football Championship.

One of the biggest sports organizations European Football could have witnessed to a big tragedy. On 12th June 2021, Saturday, in the 42nd second of the Group B's match between Denmark and Finland in Copenhagen at the Parken Stadium, Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen collapsed suddenly during a throw-in. Eriksen who had a heart attack had emergency medical treatment on the pitch, and they tried to resuscitate star-footballer with CPR and a defibrillator. After they made an effort for 20 minutes, Erikson was taken to the hospital by carrying off on a stretcher while he was conscious. UEFA announced that Denmark-Finland game was postponed. After the good news from Eriksen, the game started again with UEFA's decision. The match was over with Finland's 1-0 advantage. It was announced that Erikson's medical condition is very good.''RECOVERY PROCESS IS IMPORTANT''Associate of Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Sport Sciences Dr. Selçuk Tarakcı evaluated Eriksen's collapse and he said '' It can be so hard and misleading to attribute such sudden heart attacks that happen in football time to time to one reason. Tarakcı said ''As a result of strength and endurance training thickened heart muscle may occur due to genetic reasons, and cardiac arrest can be seen frequently due to this problem called ''hypertrophic cardiomyopathy'' in athletes younger than 35. These kind of conditions are usually seen through cardiovascular disease.  And also, it shouldn't be forgotten that footballers on this level have regular checkup before the season and during the season. The issue to take into consideration on this point is ''recovery process''. The level of distance covered and energy expenditure of footballers like Eriksen are very high. Thus, it is necessary to take supplements and to have extra time for recovery''.''COVID-19 EFFECT''Tarakcı drew attention to the negative circumstances  are  matters of stress and anxiety due to COVID-19 pandemic period, heavy match schedule, precipitated tournaments, over loading after insufficient training period. He said '' For more than a year after it was decided to play leagues and tournaments during pandemic, footballers were exposed to a situation that had to play matches and travel almost every second days. Actually, players like Eriksen play in average 40-45 official competitions in a year due to their league and according to our league these competitions are played in very high tempo. That's why, it may not be right to attribute this kind of circumstance to tempo of match directly. Many factor like genetic disorder, intense match tempo, temperature, over and wrong loadings, stress intensity may cause to occur these kinds of maladies''.WHAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED?He continued his speech ''High-level players should be protected from the people who work under the name of personal coach without knowing what kind of burden their players are exposed to in their team and they train players by ignoring the ethical rules of the job. And also, in cooperation with dieticians it should be known that which products are used for recovery process apart from natural foods. It is necessary to get support from experts of sport psychology on many sub-titles such as overcoming the stress, motivation and anxiety inside and outside the pitch. Although the common idea that this kind of circumstance was happened due to intense match tempo at first step, it will be the healthiest way to wait for the result of the medical workup''. COMPLIMENT FOR THE "CIRCLE OF FRIENDS"Tarakcı said about the structure that he called as "circle of friends " which was created by quickly organized under the leadership of Thomas Joseph Delaney and players gathering around Erikson to prevent taking photos of him during medical intervention '' In such a sad event, Danish footballer Thomas Joseph Delaney cold-bloodedly did such a thing that undoubtedly he wins everyone's approval. Delaney organized his friends and he proved that football is not just football. I hope this "circle of friends" will provide both Eriksen and all football lovers to return to football better''. Tarakcı underlined the importance of full equipped health team was ready during the match on pitchside and he ended his speech by saying ''This event also warned everyone on one thing: regardless of the competition's importance, location, age group, the thing that shouldn't be forgotten is any competition shouldn't be played without an ambulance and health team. Because this negligence is so common in our country, we need learn lesson from this circumstance the most. ''''HEART ATTACK ON PITCH'' CLAIMED 2 LIVES IN 2000sIn recent years, frequent problem of ''heart attack on pitch'' claimed 2 lives in the international arena in the early 2000s. Cameroonian midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe died in a hospital after a heart attack on pitch during Cameroon-Colombia match in semi-final of the Confederations Cup organizing in France in the summer of 2003. And also Turkey joined this Confederations Cup and finished in third place. In 2004, Benfica's Hungarian striker Miklos Feher had a heart attack in the last minutes of league match with Victoria Guimaraes and he died in hospital too. In the summer of 2008, one of the back liners Ümit Özat of the Turkish National Team, had a heart attack at the time when he was a player of F.C. Köln, in F.C. Köln- Karlsruhe match and he returned from the dead by cardiac massage then he quit football after 1 year.

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