Atletas de futebol: problemas cardíacos e morte súbita

Abstract

This article has the aim to demonstrate the occurrence of sudden deaths and cardiac problems because the football practices. For this reason, we present an article that shows the football, like the most popular sport in the world, living with cases that have shocked and raised discussions about the necessity of a bigger attention about the cases of sudden death and cardiac diseases. The professionals athletes, despite having a multidisciplinary team for them, live together with accidents caused by cardiac problems, being the majority due to lack of preventions and treatments.