Tom Lockyer of Luton City in the course of the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Luton City at Villa Park on October 29, 2023 in Birmingham, England.
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Tom Lockyer of Luton City in the course of the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Luton City at Villa Park on October 29, 2023 in Birmingham, England.
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An English soccer participant is recovering after struggling a cardiac arrest and collapsing throughout a match over the weekend.
Luton City Soccer Membership mentioned captain Tom Lockyer was responsive by the point he was taken off the sphere in a stretcher Saturday and transferred to a hospital.
The match in opposition to AFC Bournemouth in Bournemouth, a coastal city about 100 miles southwest of London, was referred to as off.
”Tom remains to be present process checks and scans, and is awaiting the outcomes earlier than the following steps for his restoration are decided,” Luton City mentioned in a press release Sunday morning.
Earlier, the membership apologized to followers and thanked supporters for ”the great applause and singing of Locks’ title contained in the stadium at such a troublesome time.”
AFC Bournemouth mentioned in a tweet that it was ”relieved” to listen to that Lockyer was responsive after the incident.
”Our ideas will proceed to be with Tom and his household presently,” the membership mentioned. ”We might wish to thank all of the medical workers for his or her fast motion in addition to everybody contained in the stadium for his or her assist and unity throughout a troublesome second.”
It isn’t the primary time the 29-year-old defender has had a medical emergency on the pitch.
Lockyer instructed Sky Sports activities that he collapsed throughout a sport in Might attributable to an irregular heartbeat — often known as an atrial flutter — however that he was given the ”all-clear” to play once more a few week later.
He mentioned on the time that it was the ”least extreme coronary heart situation you possibly can have” and that he had a process to appropriate it.