'Lucky man' Muamba hoping to play on

The Bolton Wanderers midfielder shocked the football world went he collapsed with no one around him in an English FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham Hotspur.

"It would be great to play football again and I hope that it will happen," he told Britain's Sun on Sunday newspaper in his first interview since his heart stopped working on its own for 78 minutes. "But it is even greater just to live life and love my family. I'm a lucky man."

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