Obri
06-27-2003, 10:13 AM
This is really tragic guys. He played for West Ham a couple of years ago, and he was at Manchester City last season, so Marc Vivien Foe is a familiar figure to British football fans. He collapsed in Cameroons Confederation Cup semi against Columbia with a suspected heart attack. He never regained conciousness.
Here's some of the pictures in today's newspapers:
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/reuters_ids/20030627/i/211244455.jpg
Marc Vivien Foe of Cameroon is stretchered off during his semi-final Confederations Cup match at Gerland stadium in Lyon, central France, June 26, 2003. Vivien Foe died on Thursday after his country's Confederations Cup semi-final against Colombia.
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A father and daughter look Friday June 27, 2003, at floral tributes to Marc Vivien Foe outside the club's Maine Road ground in Manchester, England. Foe who was on loan at the English Premier League club last season, collapsed and died during Cameroon's Confederation Cup semi-final match against Columbia in France Thursdsay night.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/ap_photo/20030627/all/l851106.jpg
A man looks Friday June 27, 2003, at floral tributes to Marc Vivien Foe outside the club's Maine Road ground in Manchester, England. Foe who was on loan at the English Premier League club last season, collapsed and died during Cameroon's Confederation Cup semi-final match against Columbia in France Thursdsay night.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/ap_photo/20030627/all/l851109.jpg
German coach of Cameroon's soccer team Winfried Schaefer, foreground, waits with team players, seen behind, for the arrival of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Friday, June 27, 2003 in the sports center of l'Etrat, outside Saint-Etienne, central France. Blatter came to meet with Schaefer and the team Friday after the sudden death of Cameroon's midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe on Thursday, after he collapsed during their Confederations Cup semifinal against Colombia in Lyon, central France. Blatter said Friday that the decision to play the final against France despite their teammate's death was "proof that soccer brings hope". Cameroon's midfielder Modeste Mbami, second left behind, reads French sports daily "L'Equipe", which front page reads : Thinking about him.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39214000/jpg/_39214812_newfoe203.jpg
MARC VIVIEN FOE 1975-2003 R.I.P.
Here's some of the pictures in today's newspapers:
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/reuters_ids/20030627/i/211244455.jpg
Marc Vivien Foe of Cameroon is stretchered off during his semi-final Confederations Cup match at Gerland stadium in Lyon, central France, June 26, 2003. Vivien Foe died on Thursday after his country's Confederations Cup semi-final against Colombia.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/ap_photo/20030627/all/l851105.jpg
A father and daughter look Friday June 27, 2003, at floral tributes to Marc Vivien Foe outside the club's Maine Road ground in Manchester, England. Foe who was on loan at the English Premier League club last season, collapsed and died during Cameroon's Confederation Cup semi-final match against Columbia in France Thursdsay night.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/ap_photo/20030627/all/l851106.jpg
A man looks Friday June 27, 2003, at floral tributes to Marc Vivien Foe outside the club's Maine Road ground in Manchester, England. Foe who was on loan at the English Premier League club last season, collapsed and died during Cameroon's Confederation Cup semi-final match against Columbia in France Thursdsay night.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/ap_photo/20030627/all/l851109.jpg
German coach of Cameroon's soccer team Winfried Schaefer, foreground, waits with team players, seen behind, for the arrival of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Friday, June 27, 2003 in the sports center of l'Etrat, outside Saint-Etienne, central France. Blatter came to meet with Schaefer and the team Friday after the sudden death of Cameroon's midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe on Thursday, after he collapsed during their Confederations Cup semifinal against Colombia in Lyon, central France. Blatter said Friday that the decision to play the final against France despite their teammate's death was "proof that soccer brings hope". Cameroon's midfielder Modeste Mbami, second left behind, reads French sports daily "L'Equipe", which front page reads : Thinking about him.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39214000/jpg/_39214812_newfoe203.jpg
MARC VIVIEN FOE 1975-2003 R.I.P.