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red37 wrote:Just reading an article written yesterday describing fellow team mate Fabiano's words about Puerta and this happening before to him.


The first time against Getafe the Spaniard dropped to the floor like a stone and the panic-stricken reactions of his team-mates was, in Luis Fabiano’s eyes, due to the fact that the player had fainted previously and his colleagues were aware of the danger.

In an interview with rádio Jovem Pan the Brazilian forward was understandably depressed by the events and sounded exasperated that the problem wasn't a bolt from the blue. "He’d already fainted twice before, although the others weren’t as serious as this one”, he began.

“He’d fainted like that once at half time at the end of last season. It was a friendly [Luis Fabiano didn’t specify the match] and it was really hot, but as he recovered later on we all put it down to the heat.”

"The other time was during training and he fell in exactly the same way he did on Saturday. But he walked away and we thought it was heat exhaustion again as it was boiling then as well", he added

The events on Saturday were, however, far-reaching as after an apparent recovery – the same as Luis Fabiano had described, the player collapsed and had to be taken to the Virgen del Rocio hospital by ambulance.


Of course we now know the tragic outcome since...

A thorough article of one of Spain's best cardiologists, said that there are not heart attacks that happen for no reason, and some of this reasons are very difficult to detect, some of which can only detected with a very specific TAC, called "multi slided" TAC or scanner.

He says aswell that's why symptons like faints shouldn't be ignored, as it can be more than a simple faint. I just hope it wasn't a case of not checking thoroughly, but so it seems.