What a footballer’s genocide says about a country
Touseef’s black passing uncovers worrying approach of traffic with injuries. PHOTO COURTESY: Muhammad Habib
KARACHI: A footballer’s life, in many tools of a world, is one of fame, resplendence and riches. In Pakistan, a career in football accompanies wretchedness rather than luxury, slight rather than stardom.
The nauseous law underneath a pleasing diversion in a nation was never some-more clear as in a box of recently defunct Pakistani footballer Muhammad Touseef Ahmed.
The 24-year-old Lesco captain upheld divided on Monday night in pain and in obscurity; during an age when he should’ve been entrance his footballing prime.
While genocide is imminent, in Touseef’s box it came too shortly and for reasons all too painfully avoidable; if customarily a powers that be paid some-more courtesy to him.
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The twice-capped Pakistan midfielder’s troubles began following a critical knee repairs while representing a inhabitant group opposite Palestine in 2011.
The ungainly alighting did not only rip a vinculum in his left knee, it also tore adult his career. He went from prohibited commodity to a rejected has-been in a blink of an eye. The Pakistan Football Federation finished dull promises though in existence never cared of how their knackered star was doing.
Deprived of all supports and medical guidance, Touseef was bandied around by surgeons and homeopathic doctors before he fell into a hands of quacks.
In times when orthopaedic scholarship has grown to a indicate where most any arrange of knee repairs is repairable, Touseef — one of Pakistan’s improved footballers — fell chase to medical malpractice.
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The pain never subsided following his medicine and, after years of being in a wrong medical hands, when he did find a right assistance it was too late. The sugarine levels in his blood had reached a indicate where there was zero a doctors could do.
“Touseef’s repairs was a bad one,” removed former Pakistan manager Tariq Lutfi while articulate to The Express Tribune. “The association had even expelled a matter that they would assistance him, though we theory that never happened. He was never a same actor after a injury. Players should get full medical coverage from their possess departments so in box they do collect adult injuries afterwards they get a best medical treatment.”
Lutfi afterwards blew a lid off a worrying use in a impecunious football community.
“Most players in Pakistan group come from common backgrounds; they don’t have a means to get a surgeries finished so they review to cheaper means when in pain or simply go to quacks who customarily have no thought what they’re doing. we feel Touseef’s was a same case. He only went to a impostor that eventually caused his black demise.”
Naeem’s tighten crony and Lesco teammate Naeemullah advanced Lutfi’s hunch, adding how a internal homeopath played a vital purpose in Touseef’s condition deteriorating to that extent.
“He went to a internal homeopath by a name of Dr Salim and overdosed on his medicine in his final few days,” pronounced Naeem.
It doesn’t come as a warn afterwards that another internal footballer named Ali Sher was also being treated by a same homeopath and died a few weeks before Touseef’s breathed his final breath.
“When Ali upheld divided we unequivocally didn’t know what happened though after Touseef we think tainted play,” pronounced Naeem. “We’ve motionless to get a pronounced doctor’s medicine checked from a laboratory.”
But a agonizing pain of his bad knee was zero in comparison to a one caused by a PFF’s poise during his tragedy.
“Touseef kept on job a PFF management; he even went to Lahore and attempted to pronounce to a officials personally,” removed Naeem. “But zero of them even asked how he was doing after a injury. At one indicate PFF officials stopped receiving his calls. He was sad that one impulse he was a star actor from Faisalabad, removing praises from everyone, and in a subsequent he was nothing. He roughly begged a PFF for a assistance before entrance to terms with a existence and stopping.”
In a light of Touseef’s tragedy, Wapda captain Arif Mehmood also took aim during departments, saying: “We paint these departments though if one gets ill or harmed afterwards they are left to debase on their own. Touseef’s box is a same.”
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1345191/footballers-death-says-country/