{"id":2646,"date":"2023-05-09T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.24hscore.com\/bookmaker\/my-heart-is-45-dead-the-shocking-words-of-the-dutch-football-legend\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:18:23","slug":"my-heart-is-45-dead-the-shocking-words-of-the-dutch-football-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/my-heart-is-45-dead-the-shocking-words-of-the-dutch-football-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My heart is 45% dead&#8217;: the shocking words of the Dutch football legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tpl_one_news_mc_text_before htmlContent\">\n<p><b>Dutch, Ajax, Arsenal and Barcelona legend Mark Overmars suffered a stroke a few months ago but is still professionally active.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>                        <!-- sadfd pc-article-top --><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"tpl_one_news_mc_green_line\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, Mark Overmars suffered a stroke.  Even so, he couldn&#8217;t imagine himself without a job.  In an interview with Het LaatsteNieuws, the legend of the Dutch national team told what life looks like after his illness. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have to take a deep breath when I talk a lot and I need energy to focus,&#8221; Overmars admits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Dutch man also shared sad news about his heart. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is 45% dead.  But you don&#8217;t have to feel sorry for me.  I am a happy person, I just need to distribute my energy as best as possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the health problems, the 50-year-old Overmars is not thinking about rest.  Now he is the technical director of Antwerp Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Overmars is a Dutch football legend.  He played 86 times for the national team and scored 17 goals.  Twice with the Netherlands advanced to the semi-finals of the European Championship (2000, 2004). <\/p>\n<p>In his club career he has represented Ajax, Arsenal and Barcelona.  In 2004, Overmars announced his retirement due to a knee injury.  Four years later, he returned to the field for one season to help the Go Ahead Eagles, where he started his career.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch, Ajax, Arsenal and Barcelona legend Mark Overmars suffered a stroke a few months ago but is still professionally active. In December 2022, Mark Overmars suffered a stroke. Even so, he couldn&#8217;t imagine himself without a job. In an interview with Het LaatsteNieuws, the legend of the Dutch national team told what life looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/bookmaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}