2023-12-31 18:43:43
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 12 minutes ago
Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest during a match against Bournemouth. PAUL CHILDS / REUTERS
The Luton Town captain, who collapsed during a match last weekend, will consult cardiologists.
Luton captain Tom Lockyer, who suffered a cardiac arrest during a match in mid-December, has announced that he will consult cardiologists early next year to decide his future in football.
The 29-year-old Welsh defender collapsed on the Bournemouth pitch during a Premier League match on December 16. Rescued on site then hospitalized, he was released five days later after having had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a small device used to control the irregular heartbeat.
«I will do everything I can in any way to help» the Hatters, in the fight to remain in the elite, he wrote on social networks on Sunday. “It remains to be determined to what extent, because I have to meet specialists in this new year“, he continued.
The Hatters captain had already undergone surgery to correct atrial fibrillation after feeling unwell during Luton’s Championship play-off final victory over Coventry in May. Atrial fibrillation causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate. His club indicated that his new malaise had nothing to do with this problem.
Luton are currently 18th in the Premier League, in first relegation position, but have recorded two important victories in the three matches played since Lockyer’s accident, which hailed “the fighting spirit» from his teammates. Their performances, he adds, gave him “a much needed boost» during his convalescence, as well as the numerous messages of support he has received over the past two weeks.
«See the banners on the ground, hear my name sung (by the public) meant a lot to my family and to me“, he wrote, also paying tribute to the “hero» who saved his life in Bournemouth.
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