Cristiano Junior Collapses.., A very sad thing to have happened... Options

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Dempo striker dies on field

(TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2004 10:54:55 PM ])

BANGALORE: Tragedy struck the final of the 26th Federation Cup football championship on Sunday. Dempo won the match 2-0 but lost its star striker Cristiano Junior moments after he scored his second goal against Mohun Bagan, a goal which turned out to be his last.

The Brazilian player collided with Mohun Bagan goalkeeper Subrata Pal and crashed to the turf.

For a few moments it looked as if the Dempo player was merely celebrating his victory.

Indications that things were amiss came when referee Maheshwaran Balu frantically signalled for medication and also signalled for an ambulance. The match came to a halt as the doctors of Hosmat Hospital, present on the field, rushed to assist.

Mohun Bagan forward and Cristiano’s close friend, Roberto Mendes Silva, immediately offered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

In seconds, Cristiano was surrounded by players on-field, Dempo coach Armando Colaco and players from the Dempo bench, All India Football Federation Secretary Alberto Colaco as well as officials of the Karnataka State Football Association, police officials and ball boys.

In the general melee, desperate efforts were made to get fresh air to Cristiano as some players even took off their shirts and fanned the air. It took more than five minutes before he was finally lifted into the ambulance and rushed to the hospital. Coach Armando travelled with him. Fate, however, had played a crucial card. Cristiano was declared brought dead.

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Jayant Bhai,
This is not the first time that this goal keeper was involved. There have been complaints earlier against this same individual, in one incident he is shown literally to come from behind jumping & kicking into a melee. No action was taken against him. It is easy to gloss over the attitude of such players & justify it by irrelevant technicalities when someone else's life is involved. If he is not banned for life, then at a future point of time maybe someone else's life may be at stake. It's hard to digest the point that the GK is innocent & the whole thing is only part of the game. Only stringent action will set an example in preventing such unfortunate episodes. Talking about facilities, do you see anything of the sort in the country be it a road accident or any such mishap. There is a total callous approach to all such issues. Human life is the cheapest commodity in the country.
Poor Goal Keeper? it looks like he died not Junior.