HUNGARY: SOCCER - MIKLOS FEHER WHO DIED DURING A FOOTBALL LEAGUE MATCH IN PORTUGAL IS BURIED IN GYOR.

Record ID: 251338

  • Title: HUNGARY: SOCCER - MIKLOS FEHER WHO DIED DURING A FOOTBALL LEAGUE MATCH IN PORTUGAL IS BURIED IN GYOR.
  • Date: 28th January 2004
  • Summary: GYOR, HUNGARY (JANUARY 28, 2004) 1. WIDE SHOT OF GRAVEYARD 2. MOURNERS OUTSIDE CHURCH 3. ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MEMBERS INCLUDING NATIONAL COACH LOTHAR MATTHAEUS 4. HUNGARIAN PLAYERS ARRIVING 5. CROWDS WATCHING 6. FOOTBALLERS ARRIVE WITH WREATHS 7. MIKLOS FEHER COFFIN IN CHURCH WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH 8. FEHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FOOTBALLERS AT SERVICE 9. CLOSE UP MATTHAEUS 10. FEHER COFFIN IN CHURCH 11. CROWDS OUTSIDE CHURCH 12. BENFICA OFFICIALS AND PLAYERS ARRIVE 13. BENFICA SOCCER LEGEND EUSEBIO ARRIVES 14. MAN WRAPPED IN BENFICA FLAG 15. TEARFUL CROWDS 16. CLOSE UP GIRL WEEPING 17. RELATIVES FOLLOWING HEARSE CONTAINING COFFIN 18. MOURNERS FOLLOW 19. COFFIN CARRIED TO GRAVE 20. FEHER'S PARENTS AT GRAVESIDE 21. COFFIN LOWERED INTO GRAVE 22. RELATIVES CRYING 23. SOIL BEING SHOVELLED INTO GRAVE 24. WREATHS ON GRAVE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: GYOR, HUNGARY
  • Country: Hungary
  • Reuters ID: LVA6RJYSKFCYMV735A2CYF8DIS8J
  • Story Text: Hungarian international striker Miklos Feher has
    been buried near his home town.



    Hungarian international striker Miklos Feher was
    buried near his home town on Wednesday (January 28) after
    collapsing during a Portuguese league match on Sunday.

    He was 24.

    Feher, a former Hungarian youth player of the year,
    died from an apparent heart attack in the closing stages of
    his club Benfica's televised game against Vitoria
    Guimaraes.

    At an emotional farewell in Gyor, close to Hungary's
    western border with Austria, Feher's Benfica team mates
    were among several thousand mourners who braved freezing
    temperatures to pay their last respects.

    They were joined by senior officials from the
    Portuguese and Hungarian football associations, including
    Lothar Matthaeus, Hungary's new national coach.

    Sports Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said at a short
    ceremony that "Feher's life was all about football, and he
    gave his life to the game."
    The Gyor cemetery was decked out with floral tributes
    and photographs of the player. Hundreds of fans from
    Hungary's leading clubs stood silently, wearing team
    scarves.

    Many wept quietly.

    Local media said Feher was due to have been married
    later this year.

    Feher was the second international to die during a game
    in less than a year. A heart condition killed Cameroon's
    Marc Vivien Foe at the Confederations Cup in France last
    June.

    Doctors said Feher died of cardio-respiratory arrest.

    The Portuguese attorney general's office has said an
    autopsy was inconclusive and further laboratory tests would
    be carried out on samples taken from Feher's body.

    Feher began his career, aged 17, at Hungary's Gyor Eto,
    where he made an immediate impression. Keen to progress, he
    moved to Portugal to play for Porto in 1998, switching to
    Benfica in 2002 after loan spells at Salgueiros and Braga.

    Born on July 20, 1979, Feher scored seven goals for
    Hungary in 25 appearances, including a hat-trick in a 6-1
    win over Lithuania in a European Championship qualifier in
    October 2000.

    He scored 18 goals in 48 games for Hungary's Under-21 side.



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