International Football - President saves player's life

helimachoptor

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09042010/58/international-football-president-saves-player-life.html

I say fair play, obviously a knock of heads and the ref shouldn't have allowed play to continue.

Yahoo Sports wrote:

The president of a football club ran on to the field to save the life of one of his players during a match after the referee failed to stop play following a clash.



Slavia Sofia president Ventsislav Stefanov acted when one of his players collapsed and swallowed his tongue during a Bulgarian junior league game.
Slavia player Radomir Nikov was left unconscious following a challenge from Zhivko Atanasov, which the referee did not stop play for, during the 1-0 win over city rivals Levski Sofia on Thursday.
"I saw our lad collapsing and I needed no permission from the match officials to rush onto the pitch and help him," Stefanov was quoted as saying.
"I didn't hesitate," he said. "But in a moment like this I would do the same for anyone, not only for a Slavia player."
Reuters

adamski8

how did he save his life exactly.....you can't swallow your tongue

Mars Bar

adamski8 wrote: »

how did he save his life exactly.....you can't swallow your tongue

you're kidding right?

peabutler

Yes you can?


Hence the recovery position

IvySlayer

adamski8 wrote: »

how did he save his life exactly.....you can't swallow your tongue

A tounge can block your airway.....The president probably had to drag it out from the back of his mouth.

GavRedKing

adamski8 wrote: »

how did he save his life exactly.....you can't swallow your tongue

Can happen very easily when your knocked out, well done to the president for acting so quickly.

Paleface

adamski8 wrote: »

how did he save his life exactly.....you can't swallow your tongue

You can swallow anything that will fit down your throat.

Ush1

You can't swallow your tongue. Your tongue can however lodge in your windpipe.

Le King

You can't actually swallow it

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Ush1 wrote: »

You can't swallow your tongue. Your tongue can however lodge in your windpipe.

Well done, Captain Obvious.

CR 7

I suppose it depends on the medical definition of swallowing, any doctors around? Maybe swallowing includes just after leaving the mouth, not necessarily all the way down.


Anyway, why are we discussing if it's possible to swallow a tongue?

The title should be clearer too, there's a big difference between a president and a club president.:p

Ush1

baz2009 wrote: »

Well done, Captain Obvious.

It obviously wasn't that obvious when someone said you can swallow anything put in your mouth.:rolleyes:

Ush1

Park Ji Sung wrote: »

I suppose it depends on the medical definition of swallowing, any doctors around? Maybe swallowing includes just after leaving the mouth, not necessarily all the way down.


Anyway, why are we discussing if it's possible to swallow a tongue?

The title should be clearer too, there's a big difference between a president and a club president.:p

Medical definition is it must pass the oesophagus AFAIK.

And yeah, I was picturing Barrack Obama saving Landon Donovan.

token56

why are people getting bogged down on semantics here. The president did a good thing, and could well have saved the players life, well done to him. Thats all that needs to be said really.

adamski8

mars bar wrote: »

you're kidding right?

no

peabutler wrote: »

Yes you can?


Hence the recovery position

no you can't, have a read why you do it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position

Park Ji Sung wrote: »

Anyway, why are we discussing if it's possible to swallow a tongue?

cause the article is boring

also its good to point out to people that "swallowing your tongue" does not happen and hopefully they wont do damage to an unconsious person by putting the fingers etc in the persons mouth to pull the tongue out or something else silly

Columbia

I honestly can't believe some of the replies to this thread, there are people on this forum who will argue that black is white if they have a few minutes to kill.

Anyway, good on him, even if he isn't a real president

Davaeo09

Fair dues to the club president, some good people still out there :pac: