Chinese Guy Dies From Exhaustion After Watching The World Cup Too Hard

(Source) A Chinese football fan has reportedly died after staying up on successive nights to watch the World Cup. The 25-year-old man from Suzhou, near Shanghai, was found in front of his TV hours after the Netherlands beat Spain 5-1 in their first round game on Friday, which finished at around 5am Chinese time, and doctors said his death could have been caused by sleep deprivation.

The time difference between Suzhou and Brazil is 11 hours, meaning fans have to stay up through the night to follow the World Cup, and it appears this particular enthusiast took things a little too far. According to the Xinhua news agency, doctors said the death was related to an excessive lack of sleep, but couldn’t be sure whether it was sheer exhaustion or a possible heart attack.This is not a new problem in China, whose time zone rarely tallies with whoever is hosting the World Cup, and similar problems were reported for both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments. So when you’re thinking about staying up for that crucial Japan v Greece clash, maybe consider having a nap first.

Say what you want about the Chinese, that they’re weird, that they eat dogs, that they’re commie bastards that own our entire currency, that they’re really fucking weird, but don’t you dare say they aren’t committed. Here I was thinking I’m the biggest footy fan in the world because I bet on every game so far in the tournament. Nope, that goes to Chinese dude that literally watched soccer so hard that he died. Hey China, maybe close your eyes for a second at halftime, nope, I’d rather just stop breathing all together. Weird birds all around.

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Kind of a pussy to die in day 2 of the tourney right? Half of me wants to congratulate this guy for being hardcore but if you can’t make it to at least the weekend you sort of deserved to die in the first place. Also I can’t actually congratulate him because he’s dead, like an idiot.