OT: yellow card for being dead

[jstewismybastardson]

Welp, diving in soccer now has its "boy who cried wolf" moment. A Croatian player received a yellow card when he collapsed because the ref thought he was faking. He wasn't. He was dead.

Goran Tunjic was a 32 year old defender for Mladost FC, a team in the fifth tier of Croatian soccer. In the 35th minute of a match this weekend, he simply fell to the pitch. The referee approached him with a yellow card in hand. Great. The one time in all of recorded history they try to enforce the penalty against diving.

Doctors tried to help him but there was nothing they could do," said a club spokesman. "He just fell dead on the spot."

Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo flops and dives with impunity, and will never be carded. UEFA is clearly biased in favor of stars. And living players.

Croat footballer dies during the match [Croatian Times]

 

[Darkstone42]

Welp, diving in soccer now has its "boy who cried wolf" moment. A Croatian player received a yellow card when he collapsed because the ref thought he was faking. He wasn't. He was dead.

Goran Tunjic was a 32 year old defender for Mladost FC, a team in the fifth tier of Croatian soccer. In the 35th minute of a match this weekend, he simply fell to the pitch. The referee approached him with a yellow card in hand. Great. The one time in all of recorded history they try to enforce the penalty against diving.

Doctors tried to help him but there was nothing they could do," said a club spokesman. "He just fell dead on the spot."

Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo flops and dives with impunity, and will never be carded. UEFA is clearly biased in favor of stars. And living players.

Croat footballer dies during the match [Croatian Times]

Am I a bad person for laughing at that?

 

[buffhockey]

Another reason not to play soccer.

 

[Squatchito]

This happens at a surprisingly frequent interval in soccer. See Marc Vivian Foe and Miklos Feher in recent memory.

 

[MM213]

Also Antonio Puerta from Sevilla (cardiac arrest) and Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque (who died after the game from heart failure)
Looks like soccer became too intense for human organism to sustain

Wikipedia maintains a sad list here

 

[smo5039]

i also laughed. irony is funny, what can i say.