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Update: Fabrice Muamba breathing independently recognizes family
There is also concern in Muamba’s homeland.
“We pray he recovers his health,” Congo football federation president Omari Selemani told The Associated Press by telephone. “We are with him in heart and especially with his family at this difficult moment. Being of Congolese origin, it makes our country proud having a player from Congo playing abroad.”
Bolton’s next match, at Aston Villa on Tuesday in the Premier League, has been postponed. The team is scheduled to play Blackburn on Saturday, and then could face Tottenham next week at White Hart Lane to replay the FA Cup quarterfinal match that was abandoned on Saturday.
“I know the decision will have to be made, but the immediate thoughts are with Fabrice,” Bolton captain Kevin Davies said about the possibility of his team pulling out of the FA Cup. “I’m sure the club will take a stance on it in the next couple of days.”
At Tottenham, players were due to undergo tests for potential heart defects, with cardiologist Sanjay Sharma saying “the players have all demanded cardiac screening” at a planned routine visit on Monday.
“That involves taking a history relating to cardiac symptoms, which include chest pain during exertion or breath which is disproportionate to the amount of exercise being performed and blackouts, and asking about a family history because many of these conditions that can cause cardiac arrest are hereditary,” Sharma said.
“We then perform a cardiac examination and following that we do an electrocardiogram (ECG), which is an electrical tracing of the heart which looks for electric faults of the heart, and a cardiac ultrasound, which looks at heart muscle problems or problems with the heart values.”
Copyright 2012 Associated Press.
