Marseilles (AFP)
Former French international defender Jean-Pierre Adams, placed in a coma for nearly 40 years, died Monday at 73, announced his former clubs of Nice, Nîmes and PSG.
"We learned this morning of the disappearance of Jean-Pierre Adams", wrote the Nîmes Olympique on Twitter announcing the death of his former player, plunged into a coma in 1982 following an anesthesia error during a banal knee operation and hospitalized since at his home in the Gard.
"He had worn the colors of Nîmes Olympique 84 times and formed with Marius Trésor + the black guard + in the France team," added the club, offering "its most sincere condolences to his relatives and his family".
Selected 22 times for the France team between 1972 and 1976, Jean-Pierre Adams enjoyed a rich career in the 1970s, notably passing through Nîmes, OGC Nice and Paris SG.
On its site, the PSG paid homage to "one of its glorious old ones", saluting the "joie de vivre" and the "charisma" of the former central defender, born in 1948 in Dakar.
OGC Nice has indicated that a tribute will be paid to it on Sunday, September 19 in its Allianz Riviera stadium.
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