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توفي اليوم اللاعب الكاميروني مارك-فيفيان فوإى بعد اصابته بنوبة قلبية ابان نصف النهائي بين بلاده و دولة كولومبيا في فرنسا

مارك البالغ من العمر 28 خريفا تداعي فجأة على ارض الملعب مما سعى بالفريق الطبي الى اخذه الى صالة الانعاش، و قد قام الفريق الطبي بانعاشه لمدة 45 دقيقة لكن قلب اللاعب الشاب لم يستجب لكل المحاولات، و قد اعلن منظموا الدورة الخبر بعد نهاية المباراة و التي انتهت بتأهل الكاميرون للعب النهائي ضد البلد المضيف فرنسا
نامل ان يلهم الله اهل الفقيد الصبر و السلوى

الخبر الاصلي
Foe passes away

Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe died on Thursday after his country's Confederations Cup semi-final against Colombia. Foe, who spent last season on loan at English premier league Manchester City from French club Olympique Lyon, was carried off on a stretcher after collapsing 15 minutes from the end of the match, won 1-0 by Cameroon.

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Alfred Mueller, FIFA's Swiss medical officer for Lyon, told a news conference: "I have to give you very sad information. The player Marc-Vivien Foe has died.

"After he went off the pitch ... we took him to first aid, and the heart stopped in the first aid. The French doctors here did reanimation for 45 minutes and, during this 45 minutes, we had unfortunately absolutely no reaction.

"This is a very sad day for football, for FIFA and for the player's family. This is all we can say at the moment."

FIFA, who said there would be an autopsy to determine the circumstances of the death, later issued a statement saying Foe had "collapsed in around the 72nd minute without any particular event having happened in the course of the match.

"The player was transferred straight away to the medical unit of the Stage Gerland of Lyon. The doctors carried out cardiac reanimation for 45 minutes, without success."

It quoted FIFA's Swiss doctor Alfred Mueller as saying: "It is too soon to determine the exact causes of his death."

'FIFA SHOCKED'

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who learned the news while at the Stade de France (for the second semi-final) at the same time as the France and Turkey teams and also the spectators, said in the statement: "FIFA and the whole family of football are shocked by this incredible tragedy.

"I would like to address in their name, to his family, to those close to him, to Cameroon football and to his club, our most sincere condolences and express all our support in this painful moment. Football has lost a remarkable player and man."

Chuck Blazer, head of the organising committee of the Confederations Cup, said he was shocked.

"I am stunned by the announcement of this loss. Marc Vivien Foe was one of the leaders of the Cameroon team which has sparkled since the start of the competition.

"This evening I am thinking about his family and those close to him."

Foe, 28, played 65 games for Cameroon and formerly played for West Ham United and RC Lens.

The powerful midfielder missed the 1998 World Cup through injury, but played in all three of Cameroon's games in last year's tournament.

He produced impressive form for Manchester City in the season just finished, but the club decided against paying Lyon seven million pounds ($11.65 million) to take him to England on a permanent basis.

A minute's silence was observed before the other semi-final in Paris.

France's goalkeeper Gregory Coupet, a Lyon team mate of Foe, appeared distraught at the news.

(عدل بواسطة Amjad ibrahim on 06-27-2003, 03:07 PM)