French defender Jean-Pierre Adams, who went into a deep coma in 1982 due to an error in the dose of anesthesia while undergoing knee surgery, died on Monday at the age of 73 at the University Hospital of Nimes (France), the French newspaper l’Equipe reported.
Adams, born in Senegal in 1948, known as ‘The Black Rock’, arrived in France in 1958, where 12 years later he began his career as a professional footballer. He played for three years at the Olimpique de Nimes (1970-1973) and four at the Nice (1973-1977) before making the big leap of his career: signing for PSG, where he played 2 seasons (1977-79).
As for the French team, in addition to accumulating 22 international matches between 1972 and 1976, the defender will be remembered for his association with Maurius Trésor, with whom he formed a pair of central players known as ‘La Guàrdia Negra’.
An error of anesthesia on March 17, 1982 – in his intervention due to a broken ligament in one knee – left him in a vegetative state and truncated the life of the footballer, who entered a deep coma of which he failed to get out and which, almost four decades later, caused his death.