Does anyone know why all of the soccer players are now having heart attacks all over

[AlterErgo]

Does anyone know why all of the soccer players are now having heart attacks all over the world?

 

[ryan8558]

How many?

 

[Champakian]

Is it improper pitch preparation chemicals?



Is this even a story?



Who was the health nut/runner, Jim Kick? who keeled over from a heart attack?

They should dig him up, test him and add it to the Covid Count.

 

[oggbashan]

It is rare but happens in all sports. Soccer players (British style football) typically run nearly a half marathon distance (or more) in a match. That puts a strain on their hearts and if there is any underlying undiagnosed heart condition, a match will expose it.

That is why most British football clubs (whether professional or amateur) have now installed defibrillators at all their venues.

 

[BidudeinWi]

It is rare but happens in all sports. Soccer players (British style football) typically run nearly a half marathon distance (or more) in a match. That puts a strain on their hearts and if there is any underlying undiagnosed heart condition, a match will expose it.

That is why most British football clubs (whether professional or amateur) have now installed defibrillators at all their venues.

Maybe if they weren’t forced to take an experimental “vaccine” that causes myocarditis they wouldn’t be dropping dead!

 

[oggbashan]

Maybe if they weren’t forced to take an experimental “vaccine” that causes myocarditis they wouldn’t be dropping dead!

Rubbish as usual from you. The vaccines are NOT experimental. Only a few. very few, almost statistically insignificant, given the billions of vaccines given have caused clotting problems.

And the heart attacks of sportspeople have been documented for decades before Covid.

 

[Champakian]

They seem to be pretty innocuous since it takes so many inoculations to produce efficacy.

 

[oggbashan]

They seem to be pretty innocuous since it takes so many inoculations to produce efficacy.

And BoBo's alt is peddling conspiracy theories again.

 

[Champakian]

And BoBo's alt is peddling conspiracy theories again.

So, what? He's switched up and decided that they actually work?


Well, chap my Injun' hide! Don't that beat all...


I've never seen him change his mind.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

It is rare but happens in all sports. Soccer players (British style football) typically run nearly a half marathon distance (or more) in a match. That puts a strain on their hearts and if there is any underlying undiagnosed heart condition, a match will expose it.

That is why most British football clubs (whether professional or amateur) have now installed defibrillators at all their venues.

They're in great shape but the average is closer to 7 miles (and that's for midfielders) with the high end running maybe 9. Still a ways away from 13.1

 

[JohnnySavage]

I've seen soccer a few times. Corporate teams, I think as they had advertising all over their unis. The way those guys fall down and flop around on the ground when someone touches them, I suspect they are very delicate. Could be their hearts are just substandard.

 

[Champakian]

I've seen soccer a few times. Corporate teams, I think as they had advertising all over their unis. The way those guys fall down and flop around on the ground when someone touches them, I suspect they are very delicate. Could be their hearts are just substandard.

Maybe they're fans of the NBA/NCAA flopping for charging fouls...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Soccer is a teen aged girls game.

 

[Champakian]

I've had to endure a few kids' soccer games in the past.

Herd north, herd south and goalies playing dodge ball...

 

[oggbashan]

They're in great shape but the average is closer to 7 miles (and that's for midfielders) with the high end running maybe 9. Still a ways away from 13.1

Not in England's Premier league.

 

[Champakian]

Not in England's Premier league.

Longer field?

 

[oggbashan]

Longer field?

More difficult opponents. My mistake. SgtSpiderMan is right. 13 km is the best.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Not in England's Premier league.

I think that's what I saw last night. The West Ham Betways.

 

[oggbashan]

I think that's what I saw last night. The West Ham Betways.

The sponsorship on all footballers shirts helps pay for their salaries. But the sponsor doesn't own the team.

There has been discussion about which sponsors should be allowed to have their names on team shirts and stadium names. Tobacco firms are banned. There is a proposal to ban all betting firms as well.

 

[Champakian]

That's not very sporting...

 

[oggbashan]

That's not very sporting...

The betting firms make a fortune out of bets on Premier League football matches.

You can bet on the final scores, which team scores first, which player scores first, at what time the first goal occurs etc... You can even bet as the game is in progress. Every Saturday the betting firms collect millions of pounds from stupid betters.

 

[Champakian]

I think you nailed that one.

Bettors are stupid.

Having said that, they are a step above lotto players...

 

[oggbashan]

I think you nailed that one.

Bettors are stupid.

Having said that, they are a step above lotto players...

I don't bet on horses since the 1960s. Most people in my office used to have a shilling (5 pence) each way three races accumulator bet every Friday. They had a money pot for the person who won the most in a year.

In my first year, I won it. I collected £12 for one bet and £35 for another.

After that, I decided it was beginner's luck and never betted on a horse again except for office sweepstakes on the Grand National each year. One year, almost all the horses fell at a fence, and my horse, nearly last at that stage, was able to evade the pile-up and go on to win. I had drawn that horse, a rank outsider, and won £100.

 

[Champakian]

I've gambled on vacation, but that was just for entertainment
and to say that I had been to Vegas and crapped out...

It just has a nice ring to it.

We have a casino here, but I've never set foot in it.



The Statistics course for my master's degree (taught by a mean, mean Harvard PhD)
cured me of ever wanting to gamble as anything other than pure and rare entertainment.

 

[oggbashan]

My parents only betted AT a racecourse when they had gone out for the day and betting was part of their expected expenditure. My father was slightly annoyed at one race meeting because all his horses lost and my mother had three winners at reasonable odds. He chose on recent form. She chose because she liked the horse's name.