RIP: Haris Charalambous, aged 21

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Hey guys,

Was awoken this evening from a nap by a text from a friend asking me if I knew a guy called "Haris Charalambous, used to play for the Manchester Magic".....I chatted to him and played basketball with him many many times over the years i was playing (few times a week?) and he went to college with my sister. I expected the message to be "oh i've met him in town he says he knows you" type afair....but nope "he's died, feature in the MEN about it"

I'm absolutely struck.....normally news of deaths doesn't affect me, I thought i'd become desensitised, hell even when my grandma died (who i hadnt seen since i was 4) it didn't really shock me that much. He was a 21 year old at the peak of fitness, training on a scolarship at Toledo, a Division one NCAA college in america, with a very strong future in professional basketball ahead, and he collapsed and died in training yesterday from a heart attack :confused: It really really hits hard how easily life can be taken away :(

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I've posted this just in case anyone here may have come across him, as i'm sure ive seen a few people that have played on the boards, and if you've met him you wouldn't forget him :( Very big guy, with a big personality too, soft as a brush off the court but got stuck in on it.

Sorry, I'm just in a bit of shock and thing this guy deserves a few of your thoughts.

RIP HARIS

Tom.
 
21 is far too young to go like that, though in a way if it was during training at least he went doing something he obviously loved.

RIP
 
It's really sad when you hear news about these young aspiring athletes having their lives/careers ended by such atrocities. I've never heard of the guy but RIP.
 
RIP Indeed

I know i didnt know the guy but 21 is a stupidly young age to die.. and you certainly wouldnt expect an athlete to die in training of a heart attack.. sorry man.. really am.. know how close you can get with your teammates :(
 
Sorry to hear about your loss its even worse when you think about his age....

But remember a few years ago Marc Vivien Foe collapsed while playing for Cameroon in the African Nations Cup 3 years ago. He was 28 years old and obviously not as young as your friend but still a young man at peak fitness. He also died of a heart attack.

R.I.P Haris Charalambous
 
I'm really sorry to hear that :(. I think it's a different feeling when someone young dies, partly because it reminds you much more so of your own mortality and of course because they should have a full life ahead of them.
 
Its moments like this, unfortuently, that make you stop what you doing, look at your life and be thankful for what you got as it can all be taken away in an instant :(
 
Vixen said:
I'm really sorry to hear that :(. I think it's a different feeling when someone young dies, partly because it reminds you much more so of your own mortality and of course because they should have a full life ahead of them.
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It's also to do with how fragile even the best of us can be.

I remember a lad who I used to go to school with being really into his cycling. He was 21 and almost in the national squads, never smoked or drinked to excess, never took illicit substances, and then one day this healthiest of people I know found a lump in his testicle.

He got it checked out, and unfortunetly by the time that he had a body scan the cancer had spread to his ribs. It's weird how things happen like that. :( :confused:
 
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