Bizarre story out of Croatia today, and really, that’s the only thing we’d ever cover out of there. The staff in our With Leather Croatian Bureau are a bunch of lazy-asses.
The 32-year-old defender collapsed on the pitch in the 35th minute of the County League game against Hratski Sokola. The referee officiating the game, thinking that Tunjic took a dive, ran towards the fallen player and gave him the yellow card. Turns out, he wasn’t faking it. Tunjic had a heart attack. –Guanabee (from EuroSport)
That’s not really funny so much as bizarre, but it speaks to how much the referee can actually see in a game, being one person. If this had happened in America, mothers everywhere would be calling for referees to get basic medical training. That makes perfect sense to people that work in the kitchen all day. So…has the World Cup started yet?
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I expect to see Manu Ginobili do this in Phoenix tonight.
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Guess he should have gotten a dead card…er, red card.
Yeah, I know.
WOW.. that’s insane. I mean, a heart attack doesn’t necessarily have to do with soccer or its demands, it has a lot to do with your diet too..I think it depends more on the individual rather than the team or the sport. That’s what the World Cup takes into account as well. Speaking of the World Cup check out a great video montage of its main “stars” this year on beezag.com. You need a pin to log in, but you can use “cvmark” to get in.
In his defense, the guy who had a heart attack was holding his right leg.
This is sad. I was immediately reminded of the ref that called a Technical Foul on NCAA coach Tom Penders after Penders collapsed on the sideline during a game. The ref thought Penders was showing him up. Turned out Penders had heart problems too. Fortunately for Penders, his problems weren’t fatal. Even after Penders was taken off the floor on a gurney and taken to the hospital, the ref still refused to rescind the technical foul.
BTW, the last sentence of this article is really tacky, not to mention extremely sexist.