PARIS-(MaraviPost)-A France footballer has been in coma 36 years he’s once most feared footballer throughout Europe, Jean-Pierre Adams went into a coma after a horrifying hospital mix up.
He was Born in Senegal in 1948, Adams was a “flamboyant” character and defender who moved to France with his grandmother when he was only ten-years old.
An extraordinary man with an extraordinary tale to tell was capped 22 times by the France national team.
Adams, according to a documented research became one of the first black players to star for the country just two years after his “first professional” contract with First Division side Nimes.
An disastrous knee operation in 1982 during a hospital strike made an overworked anaesthetist place a tube inside Adams that horrifyingly blocked a pathway to his lungs.
From that point Adams’ brain was so starved of oxygen he suffered ‘catastrophic’ brain damage.
Today the former footballer’s eyes remain open even when he is asleep and it is only a handful of friends who are always on his bedside as they know he will succumb to a tragic fate unless he is looked after.