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The "Rhein Polo Club Willich in - again, the largest polo club in NRW rocked by a serious accident. President and advertising icon Bernd M. Michael is a serious sports injury in an artificial coma.
Germany's advertising world fears for one of their biggest stars.
Only in June this year, a fire the Polo Club had laid in ruins. When trying to save the horses, burned the 64-year-old servant Jacob Christ.
A sad club president Bernd M. Michael then for the Express: "It's bad, but we can not it get us. We continue to address and from our traditional "Silvercup" in September. "
The games at this Cup this weekend went to the site of the Hülskendonkhofes. Michael is not only President of the club - the 67-year-old is also an active head of the "SMP" - (Bernd M. Michael) teams.
On the first day of the tournament it happened. In the fight for the ball and buried his horse fell under him Michael.
It suffered the experienced polo player (plays for over 30 years) a cerebral hemorrhage. With a rescue helicopter, he was flown to the Hospital of Cologne-Neurochirugische Merheim. There he is now operated on and put into an artificial coma was.
Bernd M. Michael is considered one of the leading advertising professionals in Europe. By 2006 he was a partner and chairman of the top agency Grey (6600 employees). Since 2008, the Dusseldorf President of the German Marketing Association. In the same year he was in EMUfailure.txt the Hall of Fame of the German advertising.
