{"id":610422,"date":"2019-04-26T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n            <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"436\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/PAPY-FATY-696x436.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"PAPY FATY\"\/><\/div>\n            <p>Burundi and former Wits player Papy"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:41:31","slug":"burundis-papy-faty-dies-in-swaziland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/26\/burundis-papy-faty-dies-in-swaziland\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi\u2019s Papy Faty dies in Swaziland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"436\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/PAPY-FATY-696x436.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"PAPY FATY\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Burundi and former Wits player Papy Faty has died after collapsing during a soccer match in Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p>Faty, who was playing for Malanti Chiefs, was rushed to hospital but was declared dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Faty (28), had formed part of the Wits team in the Absa Premiership but was released by the club in 2016 when he was found to have a serious heart condition after collapsing in a match in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Faty was part of the Burundi team that recently qualified for AFCON 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Wits and the PSL quickly posted tributes to the player on social media with his former club sending their condolences to his friends, family and friends and remember his \u201cimmense contribution to the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Wires<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi and former Wits player Papy Faty has died after collapsing during a soccer match in Swaziland. Faty, who was playing for Malanti Chiefs, was rushed to hospital but was declared dead on arrival. Faty (28), had formed part of the Wits team in the Absa Premiership but was released by the club in 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burundi\u2019s Papy Faty dies in Swaziland - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/26\/burundis-papy-faty-dies-in-swaziland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Burundi\u2019s Papy Faty dies in Swaziland - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Burundi and former Wits player Papy Faty has died after collapsing during a soccer match in Swaziland. 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