Colombia’s Linda Caicedo collapses at Ladies’s World Cup follow

The Colombian girls’s nationwide group had a scare when one in all its younger gamers collapsed on the sphere throughout a Thursday coaching session.

Video from a Colombian outlet confirmed 18-year-old Linda Caicedo operating throughout a follow earlier than grabbing her chest together with her proper hand.

She then bent over and fell to the bottom as a few of her teammates surrounded her earlier than she was attended to by what seemed to be medical workers.

After the harrowing scene, a medical spokesperson stated that Caicedo was doing higher and that she was doing “effectively.”

“Linda may be very drained,” a Colombian FA medical workers member stated, according to The Guardian. “What occurred was only a symptom of all of the stress and bodily calls for. She is effectively and all is again to regular.”

Caicedo, who made her skilled debut at 14 years outdated in Colombia, battled ovarian most cancers a yr later and underwent six months of chemotherapy after having a tumor eliminated.

“Restoration was one thing that took a very long time,” Caicedo told NBC Sports ahead of the 2023 World Cup. “To readjust, to let go of the concern that possibly your teammates are already at a tempo, and you need to practice extra to have the ability to attain them.”

Caicedo at present performs for Actual Madrid and already participated within the U-17 and U-20 Ladies’s World Cups this yr earlier than becoming a member of Colombia for the large present.

She scored the second aim in Colombia’s 2-0 win over South Korea on Monday in Group H play.