Jean-Pierre Adams Dies at 73 After Spending 39 Years in Coma Due to Botched Knee Operation : SOCCER : Sports World News

Jean-Pierre Adams, who made greater than 140 appearances for Good earlier than, has died on the age of 73 on Monday. (Picture : VALERY HACHE/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

The soccer world is in mourning after former France worldwide Jean-Pierre Adams died on Monday on the age of 73. He had been in a coma for 39 years following a botched operation on his knee. Adams’ former golf equipment, Paris Saint-Germain and Nimes, revealed the unlucky information, placing to an finish one of many saddest tales in world soccer.

Jean-Pierre Adams, who was born in Dakar, Senegal, was an impressive defender again within the Nineteen Seventies. He suited up for Nimes from 1970 to 1973 earlier than transferring to Good, the place he made greater than 140 appearances. He later made the change to Paris Saint-Germain, seeing motion there from 1977 to 1979. His club-level excellence earned him a spot on the French nationwide staff, with Adams profitable 22 worldwide caps for Les Bleus within the Nineteen Seventies.

Nimes and PSG pay tribute to Jean-Pierre Adams

Nimes paid tribute to certainly one of its best gamers, posting a message on Twitter. “This morning, we discovered concerning the dying of Jean-Pierre Adams. He performed for Nimes on 84 events and alongside Marius Tresor, he fashioned the “Black guard.” Nimes concluded its assertion by providing the membership’s honest condolences to Adams’ family members and household.

Paris Saint-Germain additionally launched an announcement, saying, “PSG has misplaced certainly one of its wonderful former gamers. PSG gives its condolences to his household and family members.”

Jean-Pierre Adams was nonetheless on the peak of his powers when he underwent a routine knee operation on March 17, 1982, on the Lyon Hospital. Adams, who was simply 34 at the moment, even mentioned that he felt in nice form forward of the surgical procedure.

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Adams suffered from mind harm after the botched operation

On the day of his surgical procedure to restore a broken tendon in his knee, an harm Adams suffered whereas on a training coaching camp, many hospital employees was on strike. Nonetheless, medical doctors in that Lyon hospital determined to nonetheless go forward with the operation, with the anesthetist accountable for Adams taking care of eight sufferers on the similar time.

Adams’ operation was additionally supervised by a trainee at the moment, who later admitted in a report, “I used to be lower than the duty I used to be entrusted with.” The anesthetist and trainee dedicated quite a few errors throughout Adams’ operation, together with administering a near-fatal dose of anesthesia, inflicting the French worldwide to undergo a cardiac arrest and everlasting mind harm.

The anesthetist and trainee who have been accountable for Adams’ surgical procedure, have been lastly punished within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, with each of them given a one-month suspended sentence and a 750 euro advantageous. That gave the impression to be little comfort for Adams’ spouse Bernadette, who remained by her husband’s facet all these years regardless of the unlucky tragedy.

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