The delicate state of health of Oswaldo Balanta, Player of the Reserve of San Lorenzo who suffered a cardiac arrest and faded after receiving a ball in a practice, keeps everyone in football in suspense. Therefore, Cyclone players agreed to the Colombian in the middle of the match against Lanús for the eleventh date of the Opening Tournament of the Professional League.
In a locked match and with few goal situations, which broke the zero in the new gasometer was Iker Munian. The Spanish midfielder of long experience in Athletic Bilbao showed all the hierarchy that brings European football and 20 minutes of the first half marked the 1-0 free kick. He kicked him out of the barrier and left goalkeeper Nahuel Losada.
In the celebration, Muniain joined the rest of the companions who were on the court and together they showed a shirt with a message of support for the 23 -year -old who fights for his life. “Balanta Force”, It could be read.
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Oswaldo Balanta, just 23 years old. The southigid boy in Boca Juniors in Cali was in Buenos Aires looking for the chance of his life, trying himself in an Argentine football team. The end was bleak: a ball caused a cardiac arrest, although he had no previous conditions, and 48 hours later he is hospitalized in critical condition and With a reserved prognosis.
The dramatic sequence originated on Wednesday afternoon, when the San Lorenzo reserve made one of its usual practices. Balanta was saved by a defibriliator and the action of the doctors of the Cyclone, then it was emerged to the Piñero hospital, in Bajo Floresand the next day he ended up being transferred to the Sanatorio Finochietto, where he fights for his life. Although he has no contract, the club is aware of his recovery and his mother traveled from Colombia to accompany him.
Waiting for Balante to get ahead, the hard question that moves the football environment has to do with the action generated by the episode: is a ball capable of killing? The answer is yes.
Norberto Debbag, cardiologist and athlete (MN 51320) who serves in the Student Club of Buenos Aires, spoke with Clarín and explained how the situation suffered by Balanta was triggered, of which no soccer player is exempt.
“A ball in the thorax what it produces is an alteration at the heart level due to changes in the pressures, and a stretch of the muscle fibers that leads you to a atrioventricular fibrillation,” said the specialist.
And he added: “It is a fatal arrhythmia, which is called Mo -Motio Cordis, and produces the impact.”
The 23 -year -old is hospitalized in a critical state with a respirator to level the normal values, prior to the time of the infarction. “In those minutes, blood did not reach the brain. Then, the brain suffered the lack of oxygen and complications such as cerebral edema,” the specialist described. And he said: “Once they are moderated in intensive therapy and the brain is deflated, evolution must be expected, evaluate the recovery period and establish whether or not there will be sequelae; their youth is a favorable fact.”
As they assure from San Lorenzo, Balanta had undergone medical studies before taking the test with the reserve, which showed no health problem. “It was an external cause, in this case a ball, but it could be for a kick in the chest or a heat stroke, fatalities that can damage healthy hearts,” Debbag closed.
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