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English player with heart defect lucky to be alive
0 Comments | AFP, April, 2005
LONDON (AFP) — An English footballer has been ordered by doctors to stop playing immediately after tests revealed the 32-year-old has the same heart condition which killed Cameroon and Manchester City midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe in 2003.
Leyton Orient manager Martin Ling says Andy Scott, who played 400 matches in a 13-year career, was "very lucky" to be alive.
"Andy's life has been turned upside down by this news and he has been assured that the club will do all it can to support him and his family," Ling told the club website.
The striker has been plagued by fatigue in recent games, prompting the medical staff at the fourth-tier League Two club to send him for tests which revealed he had a lung infection.
However, an electrocardiogram test showed the...
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