Firstly a player collapsed on the pitch. A young player, one who was fit, healthy and had passed medical upon medical. Collapsing during a match in front of a stadium full of on lookers was tragic, the scenes were unwatchable, even as the cameras pulled back whilst emergency services attended the scene. He suffered a cardiac arrest.
We're told that a specialist was fortunately in the crowd and immediately knew what had happened as the player fell to the grass. He jumped the barriers and used his skills and experience to, what we now know, save the players life. Fabrice Muamba is now recovering in hospital after a massively near death experience.
A couple of weeks later Stiliya Petrov, another player of the game was diagnosed with leukaemia. Known as Stan, he said he is taking inspiration from Muamba and will fight the disease. Once again the world of football rallied round and showed support. Club mates wearing t-shirts before kick off, fans uniting and holding up banners, it is fantastic to see.
In the world where breaking news now appears on Twitter usually before it hits our TV screens, there were messages of support for players in both of these cases. Hashtags are all the range these days because of the social networking site and #prayformuamba & #prayforstan were immediately being used and trending worldwide.
It is awesome that people unite over a specific cause, but how many of these fans, club mates and members of the general public all over the world are actually praying? How many of them actually believe in God? I hope that these situations, these happenings and occurrences bring more people to the Lord and not only these 2 footballing individuals, but thousands of other people around the world can be saved by Christ.
#BelieveInHim
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