19yo Football Player 'Akillas' Died on Tuesday

As 'reported', no details about his premature death are cited, but it was noted he had 'heart problems'

Translation and emphases mine, as are the bottom lines.

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Akillas has Passed Away

Via Hamar Kamaratene, 28 Feb. 2024 [source]

It is with great sadness that we have received the news that Archange Defringan Mondouo ‘Akillas’ has died. Our warmest thoughts go to his family and relatives.

‘This is a very difficult day for all concerned’, says General Manager of HamKam Fotball, Bent Svele.

There will be no further comments beyond this press release at this time.

The cause of death is currently unknown.

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This was picked up the same day by state broadcaster NRK, which copied the press release and added a few lines:

Akillas had Health Problems

It has been known that the big talent has had health problems.

Last autumn, he failed the Norwegian Football Association's mandatory medical test in order to play football at the top level in Norway.

Last year, the club wrote that he had to take a break from football ‘after an incident in training’. He was sent for further investigation and then hospitalised.

According to Hamar Arbeiderblad [paywalled], he is said to have had heart problems. They write that Akillas was actually due to travel to Oslo for further examinations on Wednesday [28 Feb. 2024].

Couldn’t Play in the Elite Series

Akillas came to Hamar without knowing any language other than French, and that HamKam made arrangements to hire an interpreter and English courses [why do all other immigrants must learn Norwegian?].

The Briskeby club felt it was more important for the player to learn English than Norwegian, because he was likely to be too good for Hamar Kamaratene and sold on abroad quite quickly, Hamar Arbeiderblad reports [I’m so glad we have this settled; also, aren’t we supposed not to buy and sell human beings?].

The 19-year-old from the Ivory Coast signed for Hamar Kamaratene in March last year, and had a contract with the club until the end of the season.

He was selected as part of the team in the Eliteserien [Norway’s top football, or soccer league] last year, but played zero minutes.

On 17 April 2023, he made his debut against Molde 2, where he scored one goal.

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On 29 Feb. 2024, the late Akillas’ team mates honoured him in the above way; their club posted the following statement to its news site:

Before the match against Lillestrøm at LSK Hallen, the late Akillas was honoured by his teammates with a minute's silence, black mourning armbands, and a team photo with current Kamma captain Thorbjørn Kristiansen holding up Akillas' jersey.

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Legacy Media ‘Reporting’ and Open Questions

I suspect that we will not learn much, if anything more, hence we’ll recap: a young man, a professional football player, died unexpectedly in his apartment on Tuesday. It is said he had ‘heart problems’.

VG News added the following lines:

‘We had heard after our match that he had been on sick leave. We said even then that it was an incredible shame because he was a good player. Then we got this news today’, says Molde coach Strand.

Akillas grew up outside the Ivory Coast's capital, Abidjan. He was the eldest brother in a family of five. He said himself that he came from a poor background.

‘That's why I'm doubly motivated. I have to work for myself and my own career, but I need to be disciplined in order to help my family back in the Ivory Coast. I have to succeed’, Akillas told Hamar Arbeiderblad.

‘Only then will I be at peace. When I can help my family.’

The VG News piece also contains further statements by other football players.

How does a 19 year-old, deemed ‘too good’ for Norway’s football league, die of ‘heart problems’? I mean, it might be that he had a history of cardiac problems (that may have been unknown due to less-than-complete records in Ivory Coast).

Yet, ask yourself: would a ‘Western’ sports club sign up someone who, even if he was an up-and-coming talent, without doing their ‘due diligence’ (i.e., extensive testing)?

I ‘guess’ that whatever medical condition, if any, Akillas may or may not have had before coming to Norway was known to his employer. And no-one as far as I can see it mentioned anything about pre-existing cardiac conditions.

Without disclosure of his medical records, all that’s left is—speculation.

With one exception: Covid injections. Ivory Coast’s population stands at 30.9m inhabitants, and according to OWID, some 13.57m received at least one dose. Strangely, there were some 25m doses administered, according to a different metric I found at OWID.

I don’t know if Akillas was among the ‘vaccinated’, and I remain hesitant to point towards this consideration.

But there’s a quick and easy way to resolve this issue, and it’s for legacy media to start asking about it.

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Bottom Lines

First things first: rest in peace, Akillas.

I didn’t know him, and as I don’t watch football (or TV, for that matter), I learned about this from a reader (hat tip, J.B.) who saw a brief news item by alt-journalist Boris Reitschuster and asked me: ‘I wonder how Norwegian media will report on this’.

Now we know.

We note, in passing, legacy media’s continued ‘disinterest’ in asking the one pertinent question here. I doubt they’ll start doing so anytime soon.

Why?

I offer you this notion: no-one benefits.

• Most journos are also ‘vaccinated’, hence they quite likely don’t want to know (blind spot).

• Public health officialdom won’t do it because they went ‘all-in’ on the jabs, and if they back off now, it’ll ruin their careers, livelihoods, and lead to legal trouble.

• Politicians won’t pursue this avenue for the same reasons.

So, today we mourn the senseless death of yet another young man.

Whose death will we mourn tomorrow?