Argentine footballer Emanuel Ortega dies

[easty]

horrible

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32745710


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFac19yllqY

[Mr White]

horrible

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32745710


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFac19yllqY

That is awful. There was nearly a similar incident in northern ireland in January in a cup match between Larne and Carrick rangers. Larne player scott irvine collided with the perimeter wall and the match was abandoned with the player rushed to hospital. Thankfully he made a full recovery. Just shows how easily these things can happen. RIP Emanuel Ortega.

[Joe6-2]

horrible

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32745710


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFac19yllqY

So sad, and could happen anytime!

[HH81]

So sad, one of the players at my local rugby league team also died in last couple of weeks and reading that brings back some bad thoughts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/32680166

[Peevemor]

I wonder if there'll be any charges brought against the other player for what was a deliberate and hefty shove.

[Sir David Gray]

I wonder if there'll be any charges brought against the other player for what was a deliberate and hefty shove.

I wouldn't have thought so. You see barges/shoves like that in football matches every single week and the player on the receiving end just gets up and gets on with the game.

What happened there is dreadful but I would be stunned if any criminal charges are brought against the player who shoved Ortega.

[Peevemor]

I wouldn't have thought so. You see barges/shoves like that in football matches every single week and the player on the receiving end just gets up and gets on with the game.

What happened there is dreadful but I would be stunned if any criminal charges are brought against the player who shoved Ortega.


I agree with you and imagine that the other player involved must be totally distraught. However if the incident happened anywhere else I'd think that there would be, at very least, a manslaughter charge.

[Sir David Gray]

What I can see happening, however, is the home club (which I believe is Ortega's team) being prosecuted due to not taking necessary precautions to prevent incidents like this, since they had a concrete wall just a few metres from the pitch.

[The_Sauz]

Why have they got a 4ft concrete wall so near the touchline in the first place :confused:









*Sorry I did not see Trig's post :doh:

[Big_Franck]

Sad to hear this.

Having concrete walls 3/4 feet from the edge of the pitch was always going to end with an incident like this. I'm surprised it's not happened before now to be honest. Hopefully this young guy's death will force them to change the distance of these walls to the edge of the pitch. If not it will happen again sooner or later.

[Broken Gnome]

Didn't that nearly happen at Motherwell a few years ago? Guy went through the gate in the wee stand opposite the TV cameras?

[Gus]

I'm surprised something like this hasn't happened (although I think it has once) happened at WOF at Chesser

RIP

[Sylar]

Happened to a Croatian (?) football a few years ago too, Hrvoje Custic.

I recall a game in the early days at Almondvale (just after Livingston emerged in the third division for the first time) when an opposition player lost his bearings whilst chasing down a ball in the air and after heading it clattered over the wall breaking some ribs in the process. Was a horrible sound!

[Deansy]

I wonder if there'll be any charges brought against the other player for what was a deliberate and hefty shove.

I would think the offending-player will have to live with his actions for the rest of his life - he obviously didn't intend for the tragic outcome but it was, what would've been normally, just a straight-forward foul.

[leggeto]

He had no intention of winning the ball there,total sneaky foul as he new he was off balance,the force of it aswell, terrible story

[percy veer]

He had no intention of winning the ball there,total sneaky foul as he new he was off balance,the force of it aswell, terrible story


Seem to remember john o'neil breaking his collar bone from a similar challenge from the current hearts manager at ***********

[CyberSauzee]

Happened last month at a non league game in Bristol. Forward slid into the clubhouse wall.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/02/footballer-dies-three-days-after-freak-accident-following-tackle-5131784/