Total Pro Sports - Here’s a story that will make you wince in pain just thinking about it and shrug off any future minor splinters.  A futsal soccer player died in Brazil after a piece of the court’s wooden floor pierced his abdomen.  It looked as if the 23-year old player was fully alert and well as he was being strapped to the gurney, but died  of hemorrhagic shock a day after the game.  Making a play on an oncoming forward, Robson Rocha Costa made a slide tackle near the goal line.  Apparently, a piece of the surface hit his thigh and went up into his intestines.  He was immediately rushed to the hospital where he had surgery to fix the problems, but he succumbed to the injuries a day later.

Ahhh a story as old as time itself.   The boy who cried wolf.  Aesop himself couldn’t have scripted this better.  Pussy soccer players have been whining and crying about phantom injuries for years and years wasting EMT’s time and resources on little cuts and boo boos.  And now as was bound to happen one of them goes for the slide tackle and ends up taking a wooden shard to the lower intestine.  Then instead of proper medical attention next thing you know hemmorhage shock creeps in and that’s all she wrote.   Sorry soccer players.  Next time don’t be fucking pussies for centuries and maybe people will take your gaping stab wounds more seriously.