The 22-year-old Belgian defender Lars Dendoncker announced last week that he was retiring from football due to a heart condition, thus making him the second Brighton player to retire because of heart problems in less than a year.
Dendoncker, the younger brother of Leander Dendoncker of Aston Villa and the Belgian national team, announced his retirement on Instagram, saying “this was and will be the hardest decision ever in my life” and that it “really hurts”. He was signed by Brighton & Hove Albion on a two-year contract in 2020 and played for the Scottish side St Johnstone for a year on loan.
Although Dendoncker has only now made his retirement official, he in fact already stopped playing football over a year ago after being diagnosed with myocarditis. In an Instagram post from last December, he wrote:
I have been through tough times the past few months. Six months ago I was about to make a transfer to a new club. I did my medical and something wasn’t right with my heart condition. I suffered from myocarditis.
Six months earlier will have been in May, not long before the unfortunate Dendoncker’s contract with Brighton was set to expire.
Last October, the Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu was also forced into retirement by a heart condition. At the time, the condition was described as congenital. But when Mwepu first started feeling unwell and was rushed to the hospital just two weeks earlier while on a trip to Mali, the problem did not sound congenital. Thus, in his own September 26th Instagram post, he noted cryptically that doctors, and presumably he himself, were not at liberty to disclose the details of “what really happened”.
Mwepu’s words are reminiscent of remarks made by the American basketball player Brandon Goodwin. In mid-2021, while playing for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, Goodwin fell ill after being vaccinated against COVID-19 and was subsequently diagnosed with blood clots.
Goodwin himself attributed his condition “1000%” to the vaccine. But in a Twitch video, he described how while in the hospital a team official told him “Don’t say anything about it, don’t tell anyone” – to which he responded, “Bruh, what?” (The video appears to have been removed from Goodwin’s Twitch account, but relevant excerpts are still available on the Daily Caller here.)
Brighton is not the only major football club to have had multiple players stricken by cardiac problems in the last two years. So too did German powerhouse Bayern Munich, though the Bayern players have since returned to action: French winger Kinsley Coman after undergoing heart surgery in September 2021 and Canadian defender Alphonso Davies after being diagnosed with myocarditis in January 2022.
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Of course there will be no mention if he had the jab or not, which I find disgraceful in professional athletes actually because I feel they have a moral obligation to warn others by highlighting their jab status. And let’s be honest, if he or other athletes didn’t have the jab then I think they’d be pretty quick at mentioning that. Their silence and evasiveness gives the game away.
This chap is a scientist who has written a very useful article where he describes the differences between how our bodies handle the RNA from the Covid virus vs the modified RNA from the jabs;
”Spike protein is well known to represent a poison for our body.
In the case of natural infection, our immune system will prevent the virus from infecting our body cells by neutralizing it via specific antibodies, with the possibility of cross-immunity being effective also against virus variants.
With the modRNA injection, our immune system does not have a chance to prevent the lipid nanoparticles from transferring modRNA into our cells—all cells, not just some cells with the appropriate receptor for binding of the virus (as would be the case in natural infection).
Injected modRNA can result in thrombosis followed by stroke, myocardial infarction, or pulmonary embolism and can promote the formation of blood clots inside blood vessels.
Studying the open-access databases—including those in the United States, Europe, and the UK—on COVID-19 vaccine adverse effects, one can see that these risks have become real-life side effects for people who received the COVID-19 injections.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-19-vaccines-and-boosters-were-never-made-with-mrna-5416427?src_src=healthnoe
mRNA – messenger ribonucleic acid
Don’t think you read the article did you?
”The two—mRNA and modRNA—are completely different.
mRNA occurs naturally, lives in our cells for only a short time, and is relatively fragile. It is a specific type of RNA that carries instructions or “messages” from our genes to help make proteins, the building blocks of our cells. It is constantly produced as part of normal cellular processes. Once mRNA delivers the messages, its work is done, and it is broken down in the body.
When RNA from another source enters our cells—virus RNA, for example—these cells can generate virus proteins.
We have been told that COVID-19 injections are made with mRNA. However, a vaccine using “natural” mRNA would not last long enough to initiate an immune response before being destroyed by our immune system.
To make mRNA useful for routine medicine, scientists had to artificially modify mRNA to increase both its efficiency and lifetime. The result: modRNA.
modRNA has been optimized for long life and maximal translation. While mRNA exhibits a cell-specific expression pattern, modRNA can invade nearly every cell type.”
I wonder whether teams were ‘vaccinated’ at the same time? If so, we should see more examples of multiple injuries within single teams, given what we know about the variability of toxicity between batches and brands. I’m guessing this poor chap is a Moderna victim.
But don’t worry. UK parents can earn £1500 quid by putting their kids into new jab trials. Myocarditis isn’t even mentioned. Roll up, roll up.
See it as Darwinism in Action.
It was almost comical at the start of the 2020/21 football season, so many protracted stoppages for heart problems either on the pitch or in the stands. Eriksen & Robert Fleck some to mind in addition to many others. Was it Trevor Sinclair who got into trouble for mentioning it?
It was John, not Robert, Fleck of Sheffield United. Collapsed on the pitch against Millwall if my memory serves.
He’s still in the squad but far from the player he was.
Micro clots, undeniably jab caused, are the less serious ie no death problem, which make all athletes who had the jabs more injury prone. Just look at the Prem. and EFL injury lists for the last two seasons compared to normal.
May well account for Liverpool’s bad season last year.
Klopp, the manager thereof, announced he would never sign an unjabbed player – and that the unjabbed were on a par with drunk drivers. What a lovely man.
Maybe that was why Sadio Mane left…
Add Sergio Aguero to the list.
To self.
No high profile football player will ever be mRNA jabbed again, despite the efforts of Sir Patrick Vallance.The clubs know, but Omerta rules.
It was against Reading. In addition, there’s been at least one stoppage during a game at Reading while a fan received treatment for a medical incident. Further an ex player, Shaka Hislop, collapsed recently while being interviewed pitch side.
Thanks. I knew it was somewhere down south.
Smelling the coffee yet, Toby?
He wouldn’t smell it if he was buried up to his neck in it.
About a week ago an 18 year old member of Columbia’s women’s world cup team collapsed with heart problems during training. Fortunately she seems to be OK after being rushed to hospital. Is anyone compiling a list of super fit professional sportspeople suddenly collapsing or otherwise suffering from heart related problems?
She collapsed again during a match. I’m not a doctor, but I would say she is not OK and should not be playing.
Matt le Tissier was discussing and trying to get a proper investigation into this months ago and after quite a bit of effort on his part drawing attention to athletes and footballers who experienced heart problems after covid vaccination, he was shut down and none of the mainstream media would report on what he was saying and actively tried to censor the information he tried to make us aware of. It seems to me our politicians and journalists are being controlled by big pharmaceutical companies. In addition to the vaccine problems, how pharmaceutical companies are exerting their evil influence needs to be investigated.