Articol de Ionuţ Coman - Publicat duminica, 09 mai 2010 00:00
Constanţa woke up yesterday morning in tears. One of the heroes of the town from the seaside died
On Friday night to Saturday, around 11:00 p.m., at only 44 years old, Zoran Kurtes died. The first coach who brought a Romanian men handball team in the final rights of Champions League, Zoran Kurtes, went to the sky in a moment when he prepared the path to a new performance. He couldn’t do this anymore because death watched him foully and it hit truculently.
An unexpected death
After he feasted on Thursday night the attainment of the second champion title with HCM, Kurtes enjoyed on Friday of a day off duty, before starting the training camp for the Romanian Cup.
In the evening, the coach chose to watch in his hotel room, the basket ball match between Partizan Belgrad and Olympiakos Pireu, from the Final Four of Euro league. He was not alone, he was with his good friend Pedja Klasovici, former basket ball player at Steaua.
"We watched the match together; I stayed on a chair and he lay down on the bed. In a moment of silence, I have heard some kind of snore and I asked him if he fell asleep. I didn’t receive any answer and I realize that he wasn’t breathing. On that moment, I realized that was something serious and I called the team masseur, who was in the next room", told Klasovici, strong strucked by the tragedy.
The masseur Dumitru Forţu lent him the first assistance, while the old Alexandr Adzici, lodged at the same hotel, called the ambulance. Arrived after only six minutes, the doctors started to resuscitate him, but Kurtes didn’t present any sign of life. "I was called by the president of the club who told me that Zoran hadn’t felt too good. I didn’t know how serious was, but when I arrived at the hotel they were resuscitating him. After a half an hour, the doctors told us that they cannot do anything and they presented their sympathy. I told them to keep trying, but they tried all the solutions. They introduced in him as much adrenaline as to wake up an elephant", told with tears in his eyes the second coach Eden Hairi.
Shock among the handball players
The news that Kurtes died reached very fast at his students, who arrived shocked at the hotel from the resort Mamaia, where the coach of the champion lived. "Nobody could believe this. Mureşan touched his hand with the hope that he would arise and would say that it was just a joke", said Hairi. After almost four hours from the death, the body of the champion’s coach was transported by the players on arms until the car and he was brought to the mortuary of the Emergency County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa. "We left him there, on the table, with a lighted candle near him. I have never imagined that I will ever live this moment", said Hairi.
Zoran Kurtes’s family was announced immediately after the tragedy, and yesterday after-noon arrived at Constanţa his wife Desa, accompanied by Zoran Kurtes’ brother, Goran, former coach at the women handball team CS Tomis Constanţa, and two cousins of the champion’s coach, the two children, Aleksander (16 years old) and Vladimir (11 years old), remained at Novi Sad.
Mourning and tears
The supporters from Constanţa received with a heartbreak the news that the coach Zoran Kurtes died. In front of Sports Hall from Constanţa, was arranged a special space, which became a pilgrimage place for hundreds of fans, who came to bring to the former coach of Constanţa a last homage. There were showed a lot of photos, a lot of candles were lighted and there were presented crowns of flowers. The pilgrimage will continue this morning, from 10:00, when the body of Zoran Kurtes will be brought to the Sports Hall. Then, the man who made history with HCM Constanţa will leave on Monday on the last way, to his natal town, Novi Sad.
Preliminary result: mechanic asphyxia
Yesterday morning, after the autopsy made at the Service of Legal Medicine from County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa, the doctors announced the cause of the death. "He lost his conscience all of a sudden and, immediately, he belched. When the ambulance arrived, the doctors found him without pulse, without tension, without breath, and the brain didn’t work. We made all the resuscitation maneuvers, they aspirated the gastric substance, but he couldn’t be saved. The preliminary result of the autopsy shows an asphyxia with gastric juice, which appears at the agonic persons with a few moments before they die. This is a consequence of a myocardial infarction, of some trouble with the cardiac rhythm or of some vascular accidents", explained Florian Stoian, the spokesman of the County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa.
"He was an extraordinary person, a thorough professional. From the alimentation point of view, I can say that he was more professional than us. He made jogging every day, he didn’t smoke. I owe to him my ascension from the last year. On Thursday night, he hugged us all, he said to us that he loves us"
Mihai Popescu, goalkeeper HCM
"I am the saddest club president in Romania, in spite of the fact that we managed to win the championship. After we enjoyed the title, now we all are crying: players, leaders and close friends"
"I don’t think it was about some problems with the heart because I haven’t seen a man healthier than Zoran, with such a good physical shape. The boys said that sometimes he works just as much as them at the trainings. He didn’t smoke, he didn’t drink coffee or alcohol, only at special events, he didn’t have a gram of fat and he took a lot of care of him! He left us at the age of 45 years old; he was on the highest point of the success!"
Nurhan Ali, executive director HCM
"We all are shocked, this is news that terrifies anybody, being a young man, of 44 years old. It is more tragic because he was a healthy man, full of life, who agitated himself on the bench and lived every match at maximum intensity"
Cristian Gaţu president FRH
The Romanian Cup was postponed
Zoran Kurtes’ death determined the Romanian Federation of Handball to postpone the Romanian Cup, which should have started on May, 12, at Braşov. "We all are shocked; this is news that terrifies anybody, being a young man, of 44 years old. It is more tragic because he was a healthy man, full of life, who agitated himself on the bench and lived every match at maximum intensity. Not long ago we received an example from Hungary, with respect to the conduct in such tragic situations, and we should all behave as such, to honor the memory of this man", said the president of FRH, Cristian Gaţu.
In these conditions, the entire team and the officials from HCM will leave to Novi Sad to take part to the funerals of the former coach.
Constanţa woke up yesterday morning in tears. One of the heroes of the town from the seaside died
On Friday night to Saturday, around 11:00 p.m., at only 44 years old, Zoran Kurtes died. The first coach who brought a Romanian men handball team in the final rights of Champions League, Zoran Kurtes, went to the sky in a moment when he prepared the path to a new performance. He couldn’t do this anymore because death watched him foully and it hit truculently.
An unexpected death
After he feasted on Thursday night the attainment of the second champion title with HCM, Kurtes enjoyed on Friday of a day off duty, before starting the training camp for the Romanian Cup.
In the evening, the coach chose to watch in his hotel room, the basket ball match between Partizan Belgrad and Olympiakos Pireu, from the Final Four of Euro league. He was not alone, he was with his good friend Pedja Klasovici, former basket ball player at Steaua.
"We watched the match together; I stayed on a chair and he lay down on the bed. In a moment of silence, I have heard some kind of snore and I asked him if he fell asleep. I didn’t receive any answer and I realize that he wasn’t breathing. On that moment, I realized that was something serious and I called the team masseur, who was in the next room", told Klasovici, strong strucked by the tragedy.
The masseur Dumitru Forţu lent him the first assistance, while the old Alexandr Adzici, lodged at the same hotel, called the ambulance. Arrived after only six minutes, the doctors started to resuscitate him, but Kurtes didn’t present any sign of life. "I was called by the president of the club who told me that Zoran hadn’t felt too good. I didn’t know how serious was, but when I arrived at the hotel they were resuscitating him. After a half an hour, the doctors told us that they cannot do anything and they presented their sympathy. I told them to keep trying, but they tried all the solutions. They introduced in him as much adrenaline as to wake up an elephant", told with tears in his eyes the second coach Eden Hairi.
Shock among the handball players
The news that Kurtes died reached very fast at his students, who arrived shocked at the hotel from the resort Mamaia, where the coach of the champion lived. "Nobody could believe this. Mureşan touched his hand with the hope that he would arise and would say that it was just a joke", said Hairi. After almost four hours from the death, the body of the champion’s coach was transported by the players on arms until the car and he was brought to the mortuary of the Emergency County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa. "We left him there, on the table, with a lighted candle near him. I have never imagined that I will ever live this moment", said Hairi.
Zoran Kurtes’s family was announced immediately after the tragedy, and yesterday after-noon arrived at Constanţa his wife Desa, accompanied by Zoran Kurtes’ brother, Goran, former coach at the women handball team CS Tomis Constanţa, and two cousins of the champion’s coach, the two children, Aleksander (16 years old) and Vladimir (11 years old), remained at Novi Sad.
Mourning and tears
The supporters from Constanţa received with a heartbreak the news that the coach Zoran Kurtes died. In front of Sports Hall from Constanţa, was arranged a special space, which became a pilgrimage place for hundreds of fans, who came to bring to the former coach of Constanţa a last homage. There were showed a lot of photos, a lot of candles were lighted and there were presented crowns of flowers. The pilgrimage will continue this morning, from 10:00, when the body of Zoran Kurtes will be brought to the Sports Hall. Then, the man who made history with HCM Constanţa will leave on Monday on the last way, to his natal town, Novi Sad.
Preliminary result: mechanic asphyxia
Yesterday morning, after the autopsy made at the Service of Legal Medicine from County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa, the doctors announced the cause of the death. "He lost his conscience all of a sudden and, immediately, he belched. When the ambulance arrived, the doctors found him without pulse, without tension, without breath, and the brain didn’t work. We made all the resuscitation maneuvers, they aspirated the gastric substance, but he couldn’t be saved. The preliminary result of the autopsy shows an asphyxia with gastric juice, which appears at the agonic persons with a few moments before they die. This is a consequence of a myocardial infarction, of some trouble with the cardiac rhythm or of some vascular accidents", explained Florian Stoian, the spokesman of the County Clinical Hospital from Constanţa.
"He was an extraordinary person, a thorough professional. From the alimentation point of view, I can say that he was more professional than us. He made jogging every day, he didn’t smoke. I owe to him my ascension from the last year. On Thursday night, he hugged us all, he said to us that he loves us"
Mihai Popescu, goalkeeper HCM
"I am the saddest club president in Romania, in spite of the fact that we managed to win the championship. After we enjoyed the title, now we all are crying: players, leaders and close friends"
"I don’t think it was about some problems with the heart because I haven’t seen a man healthier than Zoran, with such a good physical shape. The boys said that sometimes he works just as much as them at the trainings. He didn’t smoke, he didn’t drink coffee or alcohol, only at special events, he didn’t have a gram of fat and he took a lot of care of him! He left us at the age of 45 years old; he was on the highest point of the success!"
Nurhan Ali, executive director HCM
"We all are shocked, this is news that terrifies anybody, being a young man, of 44 years old. It is more tragic because he was a healthy man, full of life, who agitated himself on the bench and lived every match at maximum intensity"
Cristian Gaţu president FRH
The Romanian Cup was postponed
Zoran Kurtes’ death determined the Romanian Federation of Handball to postpone the Romanian Cup, which should have started on May, 12, at Braşov. "We all are shocked; this is news that terrifies anybody, being a young man, of 44 years old. It is more tragic because he was a healthy man, full of life, who agitated himself on the bench and lived every match at maximum intensity. Not long ago we received an example from Hungary, with respect to the conduct in such tragic situations, and we should all behave as such, to honor the memory of this man", said the president of FRH, Cristian Gaţu.
In these conditions, the entire team and the officials from HCM will leave to Novi Sad to take part to the funerals of the former coach.
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