De la Red retires after collapsing on pitch

Peyton Manning

http://football.uk.reuters.com/european/news/LU126095.php

MADRID, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Real Madrid's Spain midfielder Ruben de la Red collapsed and was taken to hospital during their King's Cup last 32, first leg tie at Real Union on Thursday.

In the 13th minute, De la Red was running back to towards the halfway line when, without anyone in close proximity, he suddenly fell face first on to the pitch and lay motionless.

Medical staff were quickly in attendance and he showed signs of movement as he was carried off on stretcher.

Spanish media reports said the 23-year-old had recovered consciousness after a drop in blood pressure and had to be taken to a local hospital in Irun.

Really hope he's ok. Didnt Puerta regain consciousness at one stage? Im sure he walked off the pitch. Best wishes to the chap.

Töpher

Scary stuff that, hope he's alright.

glenjamin

Archimedes wrote: »

Really hope he's ok. Didnt Puerta regain consciousness at one stage? Im sure he walked off the pitch. Best wishes to the chap.

Puerta regained consciousness on the pitch then walked off and collapsed in the dressing room. This time he didn't wake up. Hope De Le Red is ok.

Aidric

Jaysus, that's worrying. Hope he's alright.

gimmick

Hopefully it was something as simple as dehydration. Great player. Hope he will be okay.

colly10

Just seen it on youtube, it's a bit mad, falls near the edge of the box, was just walking back -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X39knfNv5Z4

Ye'd hope he's alright, doesn't look great

Daemonic

Scary alright, especially so early in a game.

flanzer

colly10 wrote: »

Just seen it on youtube, it's a bit mad, falls near the edge of the box, was just walking back -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X39knfNv5Z4

Ye'd hope he's alright, doesn't look great

Jays, hopefully he just fainted. I hate seeing things like that.

V9

Jaysus I hope he's ok, this is happening way too much in our sport these days...

Bobalicious93

I remember hearing before that this happening is something to do with the sports drinks e.g. the isotonic drinks.

wonder if thats true

amacachi

I heard it's a swarm of nano-robots secretly developed then released by the CIA.

mike65

After Hours is elsewhere.

Mike

wandatowell

jes thats awful, hope he's ok

leninbenjamin

weird, some sites saying he was 'fortunate' that it was found to be caused by low blood pressure. low blood pressure can be a symptom of some fairly serious heart conditions. hope it turns out to be just a case of dehydration, although if it occurred after only 13 mins you'd really have to wonder...

anyway, hope he recovers swiftly.

amacachi

leninbenjamin wrote: »

weird, some sites saying he was 'fortunate' that it was found to be caused by low blood pressure. low blood pressure can be a symptom of some fairly serious heart conditions. hope it turns out to be just a case of dehydration, although if it occurred after only 13 mins you'd really have to wonder...

anyway, hope he recovers swiftly.

Yeah, but it's one of those things that someone just checked the first line of Wikipedia. Everythin is a symptom of everything, and low blood pressure just doesn't sound serious unless ya dig a bit.

anonymous_joe

Hope the guys ok.

Apparently one of the problems of modern sports is the guys are so fit and do so much cardio etc that some medical conditions that would never manifest themselves in a normal person are more likely to show in a pro athlete.

Chong

Seems to be ok thank god, crazy stuff though.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=940926

Karmafaerie

Fingers crossed.

Xavi6

De la Red has today announced his retirement from the game. Doctors can't diagnose what the exact problem is. Poor chap

Exclamation Marc

What a shame. He looked pretty useful and had a lot of potential.

Glad he got a position as youth coach though and he hasn't been completely let fall by the wayside.

gimmick

Shame. Liked him as a player despite his Real Madridness. Better safe than sorry and all that though.

Neil3030

FireballPitcher wrote: »

Glad he got a position as youth coach though and he hasn't been completely let fall by the wayside.

+1

And on a side note - what an epic name.

Morf

FireballPitcher wrote: »

What a shame. He looked pretty useful and had a lot of potential.

Glad he got a position as youth coach though and he hasn't been completely let fall by the wayside.

I get the impression that Real are a pretty decent club in that regard.

Seaneh

Morf wrote: »

I get the impression that Real are a pretty decent club in that regard.

They tried to screw him over entirely last year, wanted to sack him and not be responsible for treating him!

CorkMan

Ya, as well as diagnose his problem as common, which they made happen. He was only on 1,600 a month from the club while out.

Exclamation Marc

But Madrid probably paid for his medical treatment and investigations etc which would have cost thousands for the standard he was getting.

It's not that bad a pay for someone who's effectively not doing their job, and I don't mean that in a heartless sense just in the way that at least they kept him on and paid him and paid for medical even though he wasnt doing what he was contracted to do.

Morf

Seaneh wrote: »

They tried to screw him over entirely last year, wanted to sack him and not be responsible for treating him!

I did ask a Real fan from Madrid about it and what he told me about the situation lead me to have this view.

Nemanja91

Very sad news for a young player, he is staying on as a coach with Madrid now though!

v3ttel

Very best of luck to him, glad he is ok

Vurnon San Benito

Poor chap indeed.
I hate to see the likes of Drenthe's reaction in the video, eerily stuff.

Chardee MacDennis

FireballPitcher wrote: »

But Madrid probably paid for his medical treatment and investigations etc which would have cost thousands for the standard he was getting.

It's not that bad a pay for someone who's effectively not doing their job, and I don't mean that in a heartless sense just in the way that at least they kept him on and paid him and paid for medical even though he wasnt doing what he was contracted to do.

Which they can well afford to do!

Exclamation Marc

BastardPrince wrote: »

Which they can well afford to do!

Absolutely, but they easily could have released him.

Seaneh

FireballPitcher wrote: »

Absolutely, but they easily could have released him.

Well, no they couldn't, as I said, but they tried to. He had a contract and they troed not yo honour it. I hope the lad got a good insurence payout.