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Toby Alderweireld has revealed the reason he withdrew from the Belgium national team, explaining that he feared he had a heart problem due to too much stress.
In March 2023, Mr Toby Alderweireld has decided to retire from the Belgian National Team and has since been playing only at club level with Antwerp.
The Belgian revealed in an interview that the reason behind his decision was that he was feeling immense stress, which was affecting him in his daily life, even going so far as to make him believe he was having a heart attack.
His statements in detail Alderweireld:
“That’s why I left the national team. I couldn’t sleep that night and I went to the training center early the next day. Before I left, I took a caffeine pill because I don’t like coffee.
When I was in the car, my heart suddenly started beating a thousand times an hour. I thought I’m having a heart attack, I’m done, I’ll never see my kids again. I stopped on the side of the road, went into a furniture store and asked for an ambulance,” explained the 35-year-old.
“Eventually, all the stress was affecting my heart. It was giving me panic attacks, which made my heart beat faster. You go crazy. And at some point, you think you’re going to have a heart attack and die.”
I did a lot of tests but everything was fine. Then I started talking to people and they told me it was stress. I still suffer from it for hours and hours, but I bear it because I know it’s nothing”he concluded.
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