It is a fact that we must accept, death comes in all forms and in the most unexpected way, it does not distinguish races, genders or nationalities, it is the skeleton with the scythe that reaps the lives of people. The world of football has had a history full of laughter and happiness but also of tragedies, among them there is a situation that is peculiarly atrocious because of the way in which it is presented and its consequences.

How many times have we not seen news of young players, who in the middle of a day before the astonished gaze of thousands of spectators, fall to the ground and are struck by a heart attack that gave no warning. The cases are all similar, young people under 35 years who had not presented any symptoms, are victims of a cardiac arrest which almost always ends in death.

The sudden death, is the name that has been given to this effect, it is said that although the players have not shown any abnormality in their examinations that are mandatory and carried away by their teams and teams to monitor the health of the athletes, Sometimes the underlying causes can not be found, but they are all related to heart failure and strange heart valves.

This is like a time bomb, waiting for the first wick to detonate. A player of a professional soccer team, this plant under a constant physical and mental stress that plus the extreme time in which they must be running during the matches are the main trigger to make the heart stop beating.

Although not all die, the correct teaching of rcp and methods of resurrection to the whole team, can allow them to act instantly to help any of their companions who are in need of resuscitation. The first 3 minutes are the most important, the heart is much more likely to be revived and to continue pumping blood throughout the body, after 3 minutes the brain cells begin to die due to lack of oxygen and permanent damage is created. the different lobes and their functions.

In addition, little by little it is less frequent for a cardiac arrest to end the life of a soccer player in full court, there is always a defibrillator on hand in the emergency team to be able to go to the aid.

"Sudden death can be prevented, but it can not be avoided," the doctor said, adding that, since 2004, FIFA requires three points to give the medical professional a professional player: a precompetitive medical examination consisting of a questioning in which it is asked about symptoms and family antecedents, a cardiological medical examination and an electrocardiogram. If the latter gives abnormal or registers some alteration, the entities can choose to make echocardiograms, ergometries or gamma camera studies to deepen the diagnosis.

Supermen, who train day by day to achieve a performance beyond their limit, and an underlying cause causes heart failure  never presents warning symptoms because the first symptom is death .