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Football is 'complacent' when it comes to heart scares with Christian Eriksen, Sergio Aguero and John Fleck among recent high-profile cases, believes Fabrice Muamba... as he urges schools to make it mandatory to teach how to handle a cardiac arrest

Fabrice Muamba has said that the heart scares of Christian Eriksen, Sergio Aguero and Daley Blind need to shake football from its complacency about a condition which continues to claim many lives.

It will be 10 years next March since Muamba's career was ended after he suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch while playing for Bolton at Tottenham but the 33-year-old said instances of said that it proved how much more there was to be done.

Muamba said: 'There's a complacency about it. We have a high profile incident, talk a lot about it and think we have solved it but that's not the case.