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Teaser - Inter Winter Champions, Napoli and Roma Win, Christian Eriksen Leaves Inter (Ep. 180)
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Roma's big win over Atalanta, Napoli's upset over Milan, and plenty more is discussed on this week's episode as John, Nima & Carlo examine the past week in the Serie A.
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Player Health Concerns Arise
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So in the last 10 days or so, we've seen Christian Erickson forced to leave into due to a heart problem. We've also seen Sergio Aguero forced to retire. We've seen Victor Lindelof and
Introduction to Italian Football Podcast
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The following is a clip from this week's Italian football
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Piotr Zielinski forced off with breathing issues. Martin Terrier, the same for Ren. I mean, I could go on and on.
Frequency of Health Issues Among Footballers
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podcast.
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We're not medical experts. We're not here to speculate on the causes, but quite clearly something abnormal is going on in recent months.
Criticism of Football Authorities
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We've never seen anything like this at this level, and it is scary.
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And it's also irresponsible that the football authorities are not investigating or talking
Call for Transparent Investigation
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about it. They're not talking about it enough. And it's not being examined in the way that you examine these issues in terms of having a commission like with health care professionals and doctors and researchers.
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going through all the medical history of all these guys and trying to establish, is there a pattern? We don't know if there is or not. But the needs to be done be transparently in order to prevent that someone dies, but also so that the discussion doesn't deteriorate into some sort of a conspiracy theory.