When the Algerian star Nabil Ben Talib, the French Lille midfielder, suffered a heart attack during his participation in an unofficial match with his friends in June 2024, many did not expect the player – who was subjected to days later to the heart level – would return to the ball. After doctors confirmed his suffering from health problems.
About 8 months after that incident, the Algerian star appeared again in the Lille squad, in the 75th minute of the round of the 25th round of the French League against Renn last Sunday, but that return turned into a historic event in the career of the midfielder after he scored his second team’s goal And he led him to win 2-0.
Bin Talib appeared to the minds of athletes who suffered serious heart attacks, but they appeared again in football fields after undergoing heart surgery.
The following report monitors the most famous athletes who appeared again in the stadiums and resumed their activities after a terrible fall as a result of a heart attack, while practicing sport:
Nabil bin Talib (Lille of the French)
On June 18, Bin Talib, 29, fell into a fainting due to an acute heart attack while he was playing a football match in the neighborhood where he lived in France with friends to be transferred to the wing to the hospital, where he underwent treatment, while doctors confirmed He survived the health risks that almost claimed his life.
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– LOSC (@losclive) February 13, 2025
The incident forced the player whose contract with Lille expires in June 2025 to stop exercising for several months, after he underwent successful surgery during the same month, in order to provide him with a cardiac -structural device that is usually used for athletes who suffer from heart symptoms.
After weeks of surgery, the night of the medical file, Laban Talib, sent to the Medical Committee of the Football Association to take a decision that he can return to the stadiums or not, and the first pleasure was by announcing the possibility of its emergence, but after stages of treatment and diagnosis and evaluating the improvement of his condition.
Last January, Oliver Laytang, President of Lille, confirmed that the situation of Bin Talib was going towards improvement, before the club announced on February 13 that the Federation’s medical committee allowed the player to resume the activity to appear again in his team’s squad against Rin on the 16th of the month The current and scores a goal in the first match after installing the cardiac organizing device.
Christian Eriksen (Manchester United)
The Danish star Christian Eriksen is considered one of the most famous players who were stroke during the match and then returned to play at the highest level.
The Eriksen’s fall on the field – in his country’s national team match against Finland in the European Nations Cup – is still rooted in the minds of many football followers in the world.
On June 12, 2021, Eriksen, who belonged to Inter Milan, fell on his own on the field in the 42nd minute of the first round match, against Finland. All the players gathered around him before the paramedics intervened to perform a heart massage and use a fibrillation device.
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Bein SPORTS sources confirm that Ericsson regained consciousness while he was in the hospital for treatment.#Euro 2020 #Denmark_ Finland pic.twitter.com/C6AwfwLVU7— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS) June 12, 2021
Eriksen was evacuated to the hospital in Copenhagen for a series of tests, then underwent surgery to plant automatic fibrillation device. After the success of the operation, the player left the hospital on the 18th of the same month, before returning to play football in March 2022, specifically 9 months after he was stroked.
And Tammam, like Bin Talib, Eriksen entered the second half of a friendly match between Denmark and the Netherlands on March 26, and put his mark in that match by scoring a goal after entering a minute, to be chosen by the man of the match.
The Danish star, who moved in the summer of 2022, participated in the English Bringford and from it to Manchester United, with his country in the 2022 World Cup Qatar and the European Nations Cup that Germany hosted last summer.
The offensive midfielder has participated in 143 games so far with Denmark and scored 43 goals.
Daly Blind (Spanish Girona)
When the Dutch star Dali Blind, the former captain of the mills, and the current defender of Jerona, Spain, entered a substitute in the 64th minute of the Ukraine match in the first round of the European Championship 2021, the player collapsed with tears, before admitting that he remembered Eriksen with a heart attack in “Euro 2021” Also, not only because he is his friend, but also because Blind himself suffers from heart problems, he said.
Blind admitted that he was complaining about heart muscles problems that were diagnosed by doctors in 2019, undergoing surgery to install the general heart fibrillation device itself.
After that successful surgery, Blind returned to football, played for Manchester United clubs and Bayern Munich, then Girona, his current team, which will continue with him until June 2026.
The Dutch star – who is currently 34 years old – admitted in the “Podcast” clip that he had suffered a heart attack during a Champions League match on December 10, 2019, then his team gathered the Dutch Ajax and Valencia. I continued to play .. Some do not know that I am playing football and I carry a preaching and default removal device. “
Blind played 108 games with the Netherlands and participated in the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 World Cup, as well as the last European Nations Championship in Germany.
Nanko Kano (Inter Milan)
Nigero Kano is considered one of the first players who underwent a heart surgery before returning to brilliance and emergency in a remarkable way, and carved an amazing football career.
He was the one who crowned the Nigeria team in gold in the 1996 Olympic Games, joined Inter Milan and after that he was diagnosed with heart problems, which posed a threat to his life and career.
At that time, he performed open heart surgery when he was 23 years old, and Inter Milan, Massimo Milan, sponsored the price of treatment, to complete his life and his sporting gymnasium with a heart valve, and then returned to play football and carried the colors of Arsenal, West Bromwich and Bournemouth in the Premier League until his retirement in 2012 And he also arrived with his country for the final of the 2000 and a half African Nations and fought The 2002 World Cup Finals.
What is a fibrillation or a heartbeat regulator?
François Simmer, a French cardiologist, says that the main task of a defibrilla or heartbeat device is to make sure that the heart is not beating very slowly.
“When the heart rate is less than 40 beats per minute, this is an indication of symptoms of heart attacks during a strong physical effort,” he says in statements to French media.
“The fibrillation removal device begins to stimulate the heart and gives small shocks with the aim of reaching the minimum heart rate (40 beats per minute),” Simard added.
The defibril remover device is an electric wire that enters the heart and plays the role of the “observer guard” to perform the heart, and monitor each pulse. If there is an irregular heartbeat, this device will discover it immediately and give the heart a shipment to prevent sudden death, according to Simard.
The specialist doctor indicates that the defibrilla deodorant that sometimes takes place after the diagnosis of myocarditis does not prevent a return to exercise, but it has few repercussions as the rate of exposure to risk again remains high compared to those who do not carry that device.
Patrols prevent playing with a fibrillation deodorant
Some football federations prohibit playing with a defibril remover device, similar to the Italian Federation, as the medical committee does not allow players to participate in the competitions organized by the Federation after undergoing heart surgery.
This was one of the reasons for the departure of the Danish Christian Eriksen to Inter Milan in 2022 and his transfer to Bringford English before signing during the year following Manchester United.
In December 2024, Fiorentina Eduardo Poof player suffered a sudden heart attack in the Inter Milan match in the Italian league, and after a week underwent a successful surgery to install a fibrillation deodorant device, but he will not be allowed to return to participate with his team as long as the device remained in his body.
Eduardo Buffy fell in a serious condition in the stadium of the match ⚠️
The match stopped amid the players’ tears and a great shock at the Artemio Franki Stadium #Fiorentina_ Inter #Italian League pic.twitter.com/dFl8fsJ1u3
– Adsportstv (@adsportstv) December 1, 2024
It is noteworthy that a number of players stopped – in contrast – to practice hatred after a sudden heart attack, and the most famous of them remains Moroccan Abdel Haq Ait Nuri, the Dutch Ajax player who fell in July 2017 on the field in a friendly match with Werder Bremen.
The doctors confirmed after the incident that he suffered a serious damage in the brain as a result of a sudden heart attack that ended his football career early at the age of 20.
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