Saturday, November 16, 2024, 9:52 p.m.
Tremendous scare that was experienced during the meeting between the Netherlands and Hungary held this Saturday at the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam. The match, refereed by the Spanish Jesús Gil Manzano and corresponding to the Nations League, was interrupted in the 7th minute due to the fainting suffered by Adam Szalai, former Castilla footballer and current assistant to the Hungarian coach Marco Rossi.
Szalai collapsed for unknown reasons and began to suffer seizures, at which point members of Hungary’s coaching staff formed a huddle around him while Gil Manzano stopped the match. The medical services came to assist the Hungarian coach’s assistant while the area was covered with a tarp and later proceeded to remove him from the stadium on a stretcher while the public gave him a standing ovation.
«Adam Szalai fell ill in the first minutes of the Netherlands-Hungary match, but his condition is stable and he is conscious. A few minutes ago he was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Amsterdam to be examined,” the Hungarian federation reported shortly after the match resumed.
Adam Szalai is a 36-year-old former Hungarian striker who came through the Real Madrid youth academy after training at the Stuttgart academy. The Chamartín club paid around half a million euros in August 2007 to acquire the services of an attacker with a powerful physique who spent three seasons at Castilla before leaving on loan to Mainz, a German club that would end up acquiring the rights to the footballer. . He later played for Schalke 04 and Hoffenheim, before returning to Mainz again and finishing his career at Basel. Capped 86 times for Hungary and scorer of 26 goals for the Hungarian team, he hung up his boots in January 2023 and currently works as an assistant to the Hungarian coach.
Media in that country remember that the former forward suffered a head operation two years ago from which he was able to recover and it is speculated that he could have suffered an epileptic attack.
