Who Is Fit?

Dear Diary,

Today, I am going to talk about my football experience and the related shocking news I heard today. Although I am not an avid follower of football now, there was a time when I was very fond of FIFA matches. My favorite team was Germany. Inspired by the players, I went to participate in one of the corporate football matches. The only thing which I remember from that match is running, I think that was the only thing I did in my first and unfortunately the last match so far. After that match, I realised how much exercise, practice and level of physical and mental fitness is required to play this game, irrespective of which position you are playing inside the match. 

Knowing the fitness of players, I remained dumbstruck when I heard the news of Danish footballer, Christian Eriksen, who suffered cardiac arrest while playing on the field during an international match. While he collapsed on the ground, it would have been hard to imagine by anyone that he was actually going through a cardiac attack. The news spread like fire and it put a big question mark around the fitness of a human being. Although the answer to his medical condition is still unknown, I am personally curious to know what had triggered this. I received the same shock when I heard of Sourav Ganguly’s heart attack. At that time, it was said that he had a hereditary history of this, so the situation was justified to some extent.

Being a fitness conscious person, I always looked upon sports persons for their fitness but when news of this sort comes out, it just shakes us. The only relief is the fact that this percentage of medical downfall in sports persons is low.

Wishing Christian a speedy recovery and a high rise after this setback.