Jean-Pierre Adams, the former France international defender who spent the last 39 years in a coma, has died aged 73.
Adams spent the last 39 years in a coma following an anaesthesia error at Lyon Hospital as part of a routine knee operation that he undertook on March 17, 1982.
He died on Monday morning at Nimes University Hospital.
Adams, who won 22 international caps for France, said he felt in ‘great shape’ ahead of the operation.
He was given anaesthetic that should have knocked him out for a few hours but he never woke up and the defender, born in Dakar, Senegal, in X me
1948, lost his fight for recovery on Monday.
