ASTON VILLA MIDFIELDER Stiliyan Petrov is suffering from acute leukemia, the club have said this afternoon.
Captain Petrov has made 33 appearances for the Midlanders this season and featured in the starting line-up as recently as the 3-0 defeat to Arsenal last weekend.
However, in a statement released today, Villa have confirmed the sad news.
“The Villa Board received news today that our long-standing captain Stiliyan Petrov has been diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia.
Stiliyan developed a fever following the Arsenal game last Saturday and subsequently underwent tests conducted by Dr Ian McGuinness. Haematology experts confirmed the diagnosis today.
“We expect to learn more about Stiliyan’s situation in due course and we have moved quickly to support him and his family. During this time we ask that Stiliyan’s privacy is placed ahead of all inquiries and trust that we will share information as we receive it.
“Stiliyan is cherished by many and he will get from Villa every ounce of love and support that we have to help bring this to a positive conclusion.”
The Bulgarian international, who has played 105 times for his country, was the domestic league’s most expensive export when he joined Celtic from CSKA Sofia for €4.5m and after seven seasons in Scotland, became Martin O’Neill’s first signing for Villa in 2006.
Wow this is shocking. :( He played wonderful football at Celtic…just heard the club’s statement expressing shock and support to him and his family. Hope he makes a full recovery.
As a Villa man i am totally numbed. I am a. huge fan of Stan, just hope he can overcome this.
Who gives a crap about football when the likes of this happens. I hope He gets well soon.
I’m properly gutted to hear this news. We’ve had a few very rocky seasons at Villa recently and Stan has been the heart and soul of the squad through them. Really hope he beats this.
best wishes to himself and his family.. shocking news.. get well soon .
What can one say 32 and then to hear this.I wish him all the best with his treatment.
Get well soon Stan!! Really hope we see him back in a Villa shirt!!
Aston Villa will miss him, get well soon Petrov.
Poor fella , good luck to him
Poor guy, tough going for someone so young.
Gerson therapy has no clinical benefit and had shown to be harmful to patients. U really think a diet will cure cancer…. Get real. They wont even conduct research on this diet because it would be unethical. I have no problem with patients trying alternative therapy in conjunction with the best medical therapy available.
What would be unethical about investigating a cure for cancer? Look up Gerson Therapy: Results of 50 Cases you can download it for free. The X-rays/ct scans were taken from patients who were sent home to die after chemo/radiation and you can see the tumour shrinking. The reason they can say it has no proven benefit is because the scientific method only tests for one variable at a time but the Gerson therapy uses hundreds of variables. I’m guessing you didn’t follow my link or haven’t actually looked up the Gerson therapy, you just saw alternative therapy and dismissed it immediately. That’s what conventional ‘scientists’ do, they dismiss it because they can’t see why it works. It’s complicated biochemistry (cancer and the cure) so because they don’t understand it they throw all the chemo and radiation that they can at the tumour but they ignore the fact that cancer is a disorder not a virus. But it doesn’t matter how it works because the evidence speaks for itself. There’s a huge surge now in the US of medical doctors switching over to nutrition. Prescribing drugs is more profitable than prescribing juices so which do you think is going to be supported? Doctors have no interest in making you better because they make their money off of sick people. They say more people live off cancer than die from it.
great footballer…giant of a player for Celtic in his day. God’s speed and be well….
No I work in cancer care, administer treatments and watch people recover. I don’t look for guidance on evidenced based care from YouTube or google by the way. I agree that the medical profession needs to embrace patient choice but refusing medical care is non sensical. Maybe muamba should have received these such therapies rather than receiving world class care from the chest hospital!!?? I think petrov has a great chance of making a full recovery! Best of luck to him
Frightening. Get well soon.
Good luck, Stiliyan. As has been shown with Muamba,when it comes to the really important things, team colours don’t matter a damn. It’s been fantastic to see footie fans all over the world show support for Fabrice’s recovery. I hope Stiliyan gets that same support and gets back on the pitch soon.
If he was a member of my family i would tell him to skip the ‘treatment’ and go straight on the Gerson therapy. Hopefully he finds out about it in time before he goes for chemo/radiation which’ll only hasten his departure. What a screwed up world we live in when a proven cure is kept from the public sphere by greedy ‘medical. associations who dismiss them as quakery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUl7F7dWdE&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1
You could also ask Santa to bring you a cure for Christmas. It’s about as realistic as eating fruit, liver and having coffee enemas.
I prefer to drink my coffee, rather than take it up the bum, thanks all the same.
The treatment has to fit the ailment- the therapy is for chronic disease not cardic arrest. Its hard to believe you work in the healthcare profession with a statement like that. And I research peer reviewed journals (obviously not the British Medical Asoc. and the likes). Medical journals are made available online whats the problem with reading them there? but if you refuse to to even consider the evidence there’s nothing more I can say. I’ll continue to expose the truth whenever I can. I don’t see conspracy in everything and I don’t watch Ancient Aliens, but it’s just plain naive to think we’re being told the truth where there’s profit to be made. I hope too that he will make a full recovery and wish him the best of luck whatever route he chooses.