Football: Linz striker Dwamena stable after collapse

Dwamena has been playing with an implanted defibrillator since 2020 because of his arrhythmia. The values ​​were read out. “There were no abnormalities, and everything went smoothly in the training sessions and games,” said Linz manager Stefan Reiter. Dwamena had only made his debut at the beginning of October, after a thrombosis in his hand had put him out of action. Those responsible for blue and white did not see a connection with his heart anomaly at the time.

Dwamena had a great career in the past due to his heart problems. Brighton & Hove Albion is said to have made 15 million euros for its arts in 2017, twelve goals in 18 games for FC Zurich had convinced the English first division club. The transfer failed because of a failed medical check, the discovered cardiac arrhythmias made the southern English refrain from buying.

From Saragossa to Linz

Instead, Dwamena later moved to Spain to Levante and loan club Real Saragossa, where he had to interrupt his career after a few months because of heart problems. The defibrillator had hit and the Spaniards stopped using it.

A good 14 days after the Dane Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch at the European Championship match in his country and only barely survived, Dwamena moved to the second division in Linz.

Reiter was of course familiar with the weak heart of the Ghanaian, who had once come to Europe through Red Bull’s scouting network and hunted for goals for FC Liefering and Austria Lustenau. “When he came to us, we had him checked out intensively by top doctors at the Linz General Hospital,” said Reiter. “With the result that everything is okay.”