This is really worrying, he's just 23. Please pull through.

http://soccernet.espn.go....ed?cc=3436

Sky news now reporting fabrice is in a stable condition. The paramedics may have saved his life. Get well soon son.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/spor...l/17417973

Above link: update from BBC news channel (hopefully my attempt at linking works)

Basicall y he's in intensive care in the heart dept and that attempts were made to rescusitate him on the pitch; stable now

Holy crap! I can't say I follow English soccer very much, but I sure hope he doesn't have a congenital heart condition. There were a couple of basketball players in the 90's who had congenital heart conditions which caused their arteries to crack and scar prematurely, and they both died from their illnesses, one of them at the end of a basketball game.

http://www.guardian.co.uk...ice-muamba
News of Fabrice Muamba's collapse was being digested around the football world on Saturday, and for some who remember him as an 11-year-old boy knocking on the door of Arsenal's academy out of the blue and asking for a trial, emotions were particularly fraught.

Muamba was a conscientious boy living in Walthamstow, East London, not long arrived in London as a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo when he began to be noticed for his footballing ability. There was interest from Wimbledon, but Muamba was set on Arsenal, so one day he just walked through the gates of their academy at Hale End.

David Court, the club's assistant head of youth development, remembers it clearly. "We are not in the business of offering trials to everyone who wants one, but he had such a nice and persuasive manner we gave him a chance," he recalls. "He is one of those kids that has such desire, you want to see them succeed. He would do things other boys wouldn't dream of doing. He always wanted to improve himself.

"He is such a genuine boy, and such a warm boy, with a very good family ethic. He came from such a serious situation in the Congo he got indefinite leave to stay. Then he got his British passport and British citizenship. He was different as a young boy, having come from Africa, but he was prepared to stand apart from the crowd. He had a little bit of gravitas about him. He was not someone who thinks he's special."

Court remembers only ever having one cross word with Muamba during his time at Arsenal. "We asked him to play centre-half and he pulled a face, so we told him to go inside if he didn't want to play," he says. "Then, about five minutes later he came back and said: 'I am ever so sorry.' Everybody really loved him. Everybody thought he was a smashing kid."

As soon as he became a professional, Muamba bought a house for his parents. There was scarce evidence of the flash side of young footballers that does not always have the best reputation these days. His sheer determination to do well stood him in good stead when it became apparent he was unlikely to make it at Arsenal long term. He went for a loan period to Birmingham City, alongside two other academy graduates, Nicklas Bendtner and Sebastian Larsson, and played a big part in Birmingham winning promotion that year.

"That was the making of him," Court says. "He has always been grateful for that chance he had. And there wasn't a time when we played Birmingham or Bolton when he didn't come over and throw his arms around us."

Court was, naturally, profoundly worried when he heard of Muamba's plight. He explains that all the academy players are routinely screened to check for heart defects. "Fabrice would have been screened before taking up his scholarship. England always screen their players too [Muamba represented his new country at junior levels up to the under-21 level]. But they should do it annually. The experts suggest it is not sufficient once."

Muamba remains at the forefront of everybody's mind lucky enough to know him.

https://p.twimg.com/AldAjnvCEAEKznz.jpg
Can someone post this picture of Fabrice with his son taken last week. I don't know how from my iPad.

lust said:

https://p.twimg.com/AldAjnvCEAEKznz.jpg Can someone post this picture of Fabrice with his son taken last week. I don't know how from my iPad.

^ thanks dude. His boy is too cute.

violator said:

When I read about this, I'm reminded of how many footballers have died on the pitch in the last ten years. I don't think I've ever heard of anything like this is any other sport.

It's very rare but I guess the amount of people palying football worldwide compared to other sports would throw up these things more often. It also doesn't have all the stops and starts of some of the other sports and a player will typically cover about 8miles in one 90 minute game and that's not a contsant jog but real interval type training so you have to be very fit. Even then it's very rare and suggests a previeously un detected heart condition.

The lastest is that Farbrice's heart is beating unaided and he has made movements.