Jean-Pierre Adams, the former French soccer player who spent 39 years in a coma following a routine knee surgery that went terribly wrong, died Monday. He was 73. “We learned this morning of the ...

“We learned this morning of the passing of Jean-Pierre Adams,” Nimes wrote on Twitter. “He had worn the colors of Nimes Olympique 84 times and with Marius Trésor made up ‘the black guard ...

“We learned this morning of the passing of Jean-Pierre Adams,” Nimes wrote on Twitter. “He had worn the colors of Nimes Olympique 84 times and with Marius Trésor made up ‘the black guard ...

Jean-Pierre Adams and fellow French football national team player Marius Trésor (right) pictured on October 11, 1974, leaving Paris by train towards Bruxelles in order to play against Belgium ...

Jean-Pierre Adams was once one of the brightest stars of French football, a powerful centre-back who made his name in the 1970s playing for Nîmes, Nice, and Paris Saint-Germain.

There, Adams formed a central defensive partnership known as the “Garde Noire” — “Black Guard” — alongside Marius Trésor, a player the Brazilian Pele named, in 2004, among his 125 ...

Nous avons appris ce matin la disparition de Jean-Pierre Adams. Il avait porté les couleurs du Nîmes Olympique à 84 reprises et formait avec Marius Trésor "la garde noire" en Équipe de France.

Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-footballer who fell into a coma in 1982 following a botched knee operation, has died at the age of 73, his former clubs Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain and Nice said.

Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-soccer player in France, has died after being in a coma for 39 years. He was 73. On Monday, Adams' former clubs — Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Nice ...

Former soccer player, Jean-Pierre Adams, has died after being in a coma for 39 years. The French athlete was 73-years-old when he died.