Posted on 11/11/2023 9:09:23 AM PST by george76
Former FC Zurich star Raphael Dwamena, aged 28, tragically passed away after collapsing during a league match in Albania. Dwamena, a Ghanaian footballer who played as a striker, collapsed while participating in a game between FK Egnatia and Partizani.
According to reports, the 28-year-old player collapsed in the 23rd minute of the game.
He was rushed to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. It has been reported that he suffered a heart attack during the game
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Dwamena has been playing with an Implantable Cardioverter-Defribillator due to a heart condition.
Dwamena had a known history of heart-related health issues, which impacted his career. He previously collapsed in 2021 during a game for Austrian club BW Linz, leading to the cancellation of the match...
His heart condition also caused a transfer to Brighton and Hove Albion in 2017 to fall through. Despite these challenges, Dwamena continued to play football, equipped with a defibrillator after undergoing surgery to correct his heart condition.
I think you can blame a lot of the deaths of young people on the vaxx, but not this one. The kid had a pacemaker for a condition that existed before covid.
Wouldn’t the vax exacerbate the heart condition?
Was he? Africa has the lowest rates of Covid vaccination (and Covid) in the world.
Possibly, but not necessarily. If your heart rhythm is bad enough in your 20s to require a pacemaker, maybe running around a soccer pitch for extended periods might not be a great career choice. But at least he died doing something he loved.
Many times over.
This is from 2015:
Football Players Who Died While Playing - The Saddest Deaths Ever Happend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=525uAkbIm3Y
Seems like lots of people are not cleared medically to play soccer. Seems like more die from soccer than American football. Is that right?
As many that play soccer around the globe, and with the demands that the constant running put on a heart, it stands to reason, soccer would have the most deaths of players born with congenital heart conditions.
Thank you.
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