An English footballer is recovering after struggling cardiac arrest throughout match : NPR

An English soccer participant is recovering after struggling a cardiac arrest and collapsing throughout a match over the weekend.

Luton City Soccer Membership stated captain Tom Lockyer was responsive by the point he was taken off the sector 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 subsequent steps for his restoration are decided,” Luton City stated in a press release Sunday morning.

Earlier, the membership apologized to followers and thanked supporters for “the fantastic applause and singing of Locks’ identify contained in the stadium at such a troublesome time.”

AFC Bournemouth stated 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 at the moment,” the membership stated. “We would 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 help 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 advised Sky Sports activities that he collapsed throughout a recreation in Could because of an irregular heartbeat — also called an atrial flutter — however that he was given the “all-clear” to play once more a couple of week later.

He stated on the time that it was the “least extreme coronary heart situation you could possibly have” and that he had a process to appropriate it.