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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former France defender Jean-Pierre Adams has died aged 73 after almost 40 years in a coma, his former club Nimes announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

Adams, who made 22 international appearances in the 1970s, slipped into a coma after a mistake by the anaesthetist during routine knee surgery in 1982.<\/p>\n

The anaesthetist had to take responsibility for eight patients that day — many of the staff at the hospital were on strike — and left a trainee to keep an eye on Adams.<\/p>\n

Both were found guilty in court in the 1990s and received a one-month suspended sentence and a 750 euro ($890) fine.<\/p>\n

“I was not up to the task I was entrusted with,” commented the trainee later.<\/p>\n

His widow Bernadette cared for him for the remainder of his life following his discharge from hospital 15 months after the operation.<\/p>\n

“Jean-Pierre feels, smells, hears, jumps when a dog barks. But he cannot see,” Bernadette said in 2007.<\/p>\n

Bernadette, who had two sons with Adams, told the BBC in 2016 that despite the sentences handed to the anaesthetist and the trainee, the hospital in Lyon had never apologised.<\/p>\n

Born in Dakar in 1948, Adams was one of the first men born in West Africa to play for France.<\/p>\n

His centre-back partnership with Marius Tresor for France was nicknamed “the black guard” by then French national coach Stefan Kovacs.<\/p>\n

“We learned this morning of the death of Jean-Pierre Adams,” Nimes wrote on Twitter, extending their “sincere condolences to his family”.<\/p>\n

Adams also played for Nice and Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

Nice tweeted their condolences and said they would pay homage to him before their next Ligue 1 home match with Monaco on September 19.<\/p>\n

PSG also tweeted a tribute to “one of its glorious old players” saluting his “joie de vivre” and his charisma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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