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39 years in a coma, now dead: What Jean-Pierre Adams missed

Former Paris St Germain (PSG) star and France International Jean-Pierre Adams [Agencies]

Former Paris St Germain (PSG) star and France International Jean-Pierre Adams died at the age of 73 after spending 39 years in a coma.

Adams went into a coma after an anaesthesia error at Lyon Hospital, France, which was part of a routine knee operation he underwent at the age of 34, on March 17, 1982.  

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