FIFA Will Prevent Heart Defects During the 2006 World Cup

FIFA Will Prevent Heart Defects During the 2006 World Cup by Julie Smith

FIFA representatives affirmed they will be doing medical and doping tests to all 32 countries' players during the friendly matches during April and May prior the 2006 World Cup and during the month that it will last. The anti-doping tests will be done randomly to a minimum of four players per team.

Team doctors who attended the workshop signed a pledge to support FIFA's anti-doping strategy. Professor Jiri Dvorak, FIFA's chief medical officer discussed the new guidelines at a team workshop that included nearly 160 sports doctors.

Besides preventing doping, FIFA is looking for potential heart defects in the football soccer players. The measure comes three years after the tragic death of Cameroon international midfielder Marc Vivien Foe at the 2003 Confederations Cup.

The 28-year-old player suffered a heart attack in Cameroon's semi-final match against Colombia and medical staff failed to resuscitate the player who later died in a Lyon hospital.

With this tragedy in mind FIFA have now decided to have defibrillators, a medical instrument that helps to restart a stopped heart, and they will be available on each one of the 2006 World Cup stadiums.

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