TEHRAN – A basketball game in Iran\u2019s Fars province was overshadowed by tragedy after 20-year-old player Reza Kazemi suffered a cardiac arrest during a provincial league match and died.<\/p>\n
Kazemi, a member of the Nava team, had played for around 10 minutes before being substituted and taking a seat on the bench. He suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness.<\/p>\n
Fars Basketball Association president Fereydoon Raeisi said medical staff at the venue immediately rushed to assist the player.<\/p>\n
Kazemi\u2019s mother, who is a nurse, was also at the arena and witnessed the incident. The father of another player, who is a doctor and had attended the game as a spectator, also joined the efforts to revive Kazemi.<\/p>\n
Despite immediate resuscitation attempts, Kazemi could not be saved.<\/p>\n
Raeisi said an ambulance took around 15 minutes to reach the venue, but Kazemi had already died before it arrived.<\/p>\n
The tragedy was made even more heartbreaking by the presence of Kazemi\u2019s mother, who witnessed the emergency unfold from the stands.<\/p>\n
Raeisi added that Kazemi had passed the required medical checks and had been cleared to compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll players must provide a medical fitness certificate before taking part in competitions, and Reza Kazemi had one,\u201d Raeisi said. \u201cWhy this happened so suddenly is a matter that must be investigated by the forensic authorities, who will determine the exact cause of death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN – A basketball game in Iran\u2019s Fars province was overshadowed by tragedy after 20-year-old player Reza Kazemi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-874936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}