The radical turn in a case that went around the world and shocked English football. The episode appeared this week, causing a huge stir on social networks. Fortunately, it had a happy ending.
He city of stoke club where the player plays Kayleigh McDonaldagreed to pay for his surgery for an anterior cruciate ligament injury after he himself began a GoFundMe to cover the necessary expenses, amounting to 20 thousand pounds. The pressure and solidarity of the fans had an effect and the club decided to act on this matter.
Kayleigh McDonald She suffered the injury during Stoke’s 2-1 defeat by Burnley in the Women’s National League North last month and, after undergoing a scan, was told she would have to join an NHS waiting list for treatment. Desperate to be operated on “in the most appropriate way”, McDonald, a defender who joined Stoke from Blackburn last summer, decided to opt for private healthcare, which cost him £20,000 and hence the creation of fundraising.
“It’s very sad to say that just when I thought women’s football was finally going somewhere, I received the worst news: I have to join the NHS waiting list for surgery following an injury I sustained playing in a league match for my club,” he wrote McDonald.
The soccer player is on the waiting list for surgery: “I am currently unemployed, unable to walk, without income and burdened with paying my bills… I am ashamed to do a crowdfunding to pay for my surgery, but I have no other option,” said the player.
Finally, the club assumes the operating costs and will not need to use this crowdfunding to operate.
Source: La Verdad
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