World Cup Commentator Dies Shortly After Egypt-Saudi Arabia Match

[mvcg66b3r]

Respected Egyptian TV commentator Abdel Rahim Mohamed died of a heart attack after Egypt lost to Saudi Arabia 2-1 in their World Cup match Monday.

Mohamed, a well-known broadcaster in Egypt who was scheduled to give an analysis after the game, was said to feel emotional during the tense match.

Mohamed felt affected by “the poor performance of the national team” during and after the World Cup match, according to Egypt Today. Reports also say he was exhausted and affected by Egypt’s loss. Before he could give his postgame analysis, Mohamed suffered cardiac arrest and immediately was taken to the hospital, where doctors tried to revive him before he was pronounced dead.

https://deadline.com/2018/06/abdel-rahim-mohamed-dies-world-cup-commentator-egypt-saudi-1202417813/

 

[landtuna]

Didn't anyone ever tell him it is just a game? Apparently not.

 

[davideduardo]

Didn't anyone ever tell him it is just a game? Apparently not.

You haven't seen the scenes in certain cities after a home team wins a championship? Car burning, window breaking and general disorder?

 

[PTBoardOp94]

I don't know much about Abel Mohammed, but Andres Cantor's call of the Mexico-Germany game on Telemundo got a lot of play on my local radio. He sure didn't sound like a guy who was treating it like a game.

https://twitter.com/TelemundoSports/status/1008373493975547905

IMO it's kind of an American thing to treat broadcasting sport as if you're describing a hysterectomy to a resident surgeon.

 

[landtuna]

You haven't seen the scenes in certain cities after a home team wins a championship? Car burning, window breaking and general disorder?

Of course, but it is still just a game.

 

[landtuna]

IMO it's kind of an American thing to treat broadcasting sport as if you're describing a hysterectomy to a resident surgeon.

You obviously have never listened to Doc Emery call an NHL game.

 

[CTListener]

You obviously have never listened to Doc Emery call an NHL game.

Emrick. And Mike's approach is downright reverential compared to the way Dave Mishkin calls Tampa Bay Lightning games. Another voice to check out is Roger Huston. He has about the least significant full-time job in sports: He is the race caller at The Meadows, a third-rate harness racing track near Pittsburgh, who announces every totally meaningless race there as if Jesus himself were rolling down the homestretch.

 

[Oldie919]

And let's not forget Dick Vitale's: "It's AWESOME, baby....with a capital 'A'!!"

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Broken heart syndrome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

 

[landtuna]

Emrick. And Mike's approach is downright reverential compared to the way Dave Mishkin calls Tampa Bay Lightning games. Another voice to check out is Roger Huston. He has about the least significant full-time job in sports: He is the race caller at The Meadows, a third-rate harness racing track near Pittsburgh, who announces every totally meaningless race there as if Jesus himself were rolling down the homestretch.

Thanks for the correction. That's what happens when wife and granddaughter are yelling at me while I try to complete the post.

I live in the West so we don't see the Bolts unless it is a national game and then the network announcers seem to always take over. I'll make a note to try to find Mishkin in a backhaul next season.

I do remember the horse racing announcers from years ago. We had a local announcer here in Phoenix who did the sprint car races at Manzanita named Windy MacDonald who would probably give those guys a run for their money. They didn't call him Windy for nothing.

 

[Hot Hits]

You haven't seen the scenes in certain cities after a home team wins a championship? Car burning, window breaking and general disorder?

I come from the Big City, we do that here too. Really get a' kick' from Jorge Perez-Navarro calling the games in English, that dude is funny!

 

[CTListener]

I live in the West so we don't see the Bolts unless it is a national game and then the network announcers seem to always take over. I'll make a note to try to find Mishkin in a backhaul next season.

Mishkin is strictly radio. I hear him on Sirius XM. Not sure if the NHL charges for streamed audio or not. I used to subscribe to the league's Gamecenter internet package but dropped it a few years ago -- at that time, I believe, radio was free and you paid only for the telecasts.