ESPN Soccer Analyst Shaka Hislop Provides Health Update After On-Air Collapse
One day after collapsing on air before Real Madrid's 3–2 exhibition win over AC Milan at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, ESPN analyst Shaka Hislop took to Twitter to update fans on his health.
“Well, that was awkward. What a 24 hours this has been,” Hislop said in a video tweeted by ESPN on Monday afternoon. “Every so often in life gives you a moment to pause and this was mine. There’s so much I have to be thankful for—my wife, kids, family, loved ones, friends.”
Hislop thanked the many people who reached out following the incident, which made news around the world.
“My response now has to be to seek out the best medical opinion I can get and listen to what my doctors have to say,” Hislop said. “I’d like to say thanks to [co-host] Dan [Thomas], my ESPN family, the camera operators, the medical staff, all who responded in the way that they did and afforded me the care that I got.”
Thomas saw Hislop collapsing and immediately signaled for assistance.
“He’s conscious, he’s talking. I think he’s a little embarrassed about it all, he’s apologized profusely,” Thomas said of Hislop during the game on Sunday. “Not a man who likes people to make a fuss of him.”
Hislop, 54, played professionally for Reading, Newcastle United, West Ham, Portsmouth and FC Dallas from 1992 to ’07 and internationally for Trinidad and Tobago from ’99 to ’06.
