Iker Casillas stable after heart attack

Iker Casillas stable after heart attack – FC Porto

By : AFP

Date: 1 May 2019 5:28pm WAT

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 15, 2016 Porto's Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas catches a ball during the Portuguese league football match FC Porto vs CS Maritimo at the Dragao stadium in Porto. - Casillas is stable in hospital after suffering a heart attack in training, his club FC Porto announced on May 1, 2019. (Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP)

Veteran goalkeeper Iker Casillas was stable in hospital after suffering a heart attack in training, his club Porto said on Wednesday.

The 37-year-old, who has 167 Spain caps and played more than 500 games for Real Madrid, suffered what the Portuguese club called an “acute myocardial infarction” in training on Wednesday.

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The club’s statement on Wednesday afternoon said that “the session was interrupted to provide assistance. It went on that Casillas was in a Porto hospital “well, stable and his heart problem solved.”