Willich --
The "Rhein Polo Club in Willich - again will be the largest polo club in NRW hit by a serious accident. President and advertising icon Bernd M. Michael is after a serious sports injury in an artificial coma.
Germany's advertising world is worried about one of its biggest stars.
Only in June this year, a fire was the Polo Club, in ruins laid. When trying to save the horses and burned the 64-year-old servant Jacob Christ.
A sad club president Bernd M. Michael then for the Express: "That's bad, but we will not be browbeaten. We will carry on, even turning our traditional "Silvercup" out in September. "
The games Cup now got around this weekend on the grounds of Hülskendonkhofes. Michael is not only President of the club - the 67-year-old is also an active leader of the "SMP" - (Bernd M. Michael) teams.
On the first day of the tournament happened. During the fight for the ball and buried his horse fell under him Michael.
It suffered an experienced polo player (playing 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 placed in an artificial coma was.
Bernd M. Michael is considered one of the most respected advertising professionals in Europe. Until 2006 he was a shareholder and chairman of the top agency Gray (6600 employees). Since 2008, the President of the German Marketing Association Düsseldorf. In the same year he became Exempt into the Hall of Fame of German advertising.
