Toby Alderweireld left the Belgian team due to panic attacks – International – Belgium

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While the Belgian federation paid him a nice tribute at half-time of the Belgium-Italy match at the Roi-Baudouin stadium last Thursday (0-1), Toby Alderweireld returned to his end of international career in the show The Housebroadcast on Belgian television this Tuesday and whose content was partly revealed in a press release from the channel this Monday. The Antwerp defender, who announced his international retirement in March 2023, talks about two successive panic attacks in February of the same year which would have led him to put aside the selection, he who thought he was having a heart attack.

The day after a defeat and while he was on his way to training, the man with 127 caps confides that he suddenly felt his heart “beat at a thousand an hour. I thought I was having a heart attack and it was over. I stopped, walked into a furniture store and asked if they could call the ambulance.”. While the phenomenon recurred a few hours later, Alderweireld understood that he had suffered panic attacks :“I was going crazy, thinking I was having a heart attack and dying. » A real alert which led him a few weeks later to announce his permanent withdrawal from the selection Red Devils.

Health first.

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