Blind
Ajax’s Daley Blind slumped during yesterday’s pre-season friendly raising fears over his career with regard to his diagnosis with a heart condition last year.
Note that the former Manchester United defender was diagnosed with heart muscle inflammation after suffering from dizziness during Ajax’s Champions League match against Valencia in December.
Before returning to full training and match action in February, the thirty-year-old Blind was fitted with a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD system), which is a device that constantly monitors and regulates the heart’s rhythm.
Blind’s teammates who expressed concern in Amsterdam yesterday rushed to his aid as he collapsed to the floor in the closing stages of Ajax’s friendly against Hertha Berlin.
Ajax’s boss, Erik ten Haag, after the match confirmed that Blind was feeling alright but would undergo further tests at the hospital today.
The club boss in his words said “Daley Blind’s ICD went off. He got subbed off straight away and he is feeling OK now, he is feeling fine. We will do research about this now.”
Blind had begun his career with Ajax, spent four years at Old Trafford before returning to his boyhood club in 2018 and has made 68 appearances for the Netherlands.
While Ajax set to start the Dutch Eredivisie season on Sunday, September 13, Blind’s participation is however in doubt following his latest health challenge.