Jean-Pierre Adams
Former French footballer dies
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Former French football star Jean-Pierre Adams has died. He was in a coma for 35 years following a medical malpractice.
Former French national footballer Jean-Pierre Adams has died at the age of 73. The French Football Association announced the Federation Franchise de Football on its website on Monday, September 6, 2021. Adams has been in a coma for 39 years after a medical malpractice in 1982.
Jean-Pierre Adams has been on the football field 22 times for “Les Blues”
Adams was originally from French West Africa, now Senegal. At the age of ten he came to France on a pilgrimage with his grandmother and was later adopted by a French family. He began his football career as a striker in the Amateur League in 1967 and later moved to the position of federal defender at the Olympic Names Club. In the following years, the professional kicker was also on the pitch for OGC Nice and Paris Saint-Germain.
Jean-Pierre Adams made his debut for the French national team “Les Pleas” in 1972. As a tough federal defender, he earned the nickname “Black Rock” in the following years. He played a total of 22 international matches for “Équipe Tricolore”.
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39 years in a vegetative state
Adams was in a coma as a result of anesthesia a year after his retirement and was cared for by his wife, Bernard Adams. Doctors administered high doses of anesthetic to the professional athlete before he had knee surgery – actually a routine procedure – and Adams was almost dead. The abuse resulted in a lack of oxygen to the brain, which brought Adams to a vegetative state – and did not wake up.
Source used: fff.fr