Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu has been forced to retire from football at the age of just 24 after being diagnosed with a hereditary heart condition.
Mwepu was last month taken ill on a flight whilst on international duty with Zambia and then hospitalised in Mali. Subsequent tests on his return to England revealed the condition, which Brighton say would put the player at “an extremely high risk of suffering a potentially fatal cardiac event, if he were to continue playing competitive football”.
