
The footballer who had a heart transplant - then became a World Cup winner
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England beat Spain 5-1 in the final of the Transplant World Cup in Frankfurt When Martyn Jackson walked off the pitch after Ramsbottom United's 2-1 win over Cheadle Town in October 2024, it never crossed his mind that one day he could be a World Cup winner.
法兰克福移植世界杯决赛英格兰队5-1击败西班牙队 2024 年 10 月,当马丁·杰克逊在拉姆斯巴顿联队 2-1 战胜钱德尔镇队后走下球场时,他从未想过有一天自己会成为世界杯冠军。
In fact, in the days after that match, his goal was just staying alive.
事实上,在那场比赛之后的几天里,他的目标就是活下去。
Just a couple of days after the final whistle, Jackson started to feel unwell during the night.
终场哨响后几天,杰克逊在夜间开始感到不适。
He went into hospital and was diagnosed with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart usually caused by an infection.
他入院后被诊断出患有心肌炎,这是一种通常由感染引起的心脏炎症。
Within weeks, he was placed on the super urgent waiting list for a transplant. His life was saved when a donor heart became available, and on 28 November 2024, he had successful surgery at Wythenshawe Hospital in Greater Manchester.
几周之内,他就被列入了超级紧急的移植等待名单。 当捐赠心脏可用时,他的生命得以挽救,并于 2024 年 11 月 28 日在大曼彻斯特的威森肖医院成功进行了手术。
Fast forward to September 2026, and Jackson scored for England in their 5-1 win over Spain in the final of the Transplant Football World Cup.
时间快进到 2026 年 9 月,在移植足球世界杯决赛中,杰克逊为英格兰队 5-1 战胜西班牙队攻入一球。
His team-mates and opponents were, like him, all recipients of a donor organ.
他的队友和对手都和他一样,都是捐赠器官的接受者。
England's win at the Transplant World Cup came three days before the start of Organ Donation Week "Obviously, when you've had a transplant, you don't think you're ever going to play again.
英格兰队在移植世界杯上获胜是在器官捐赠周开始前三天 “显然,当你接受了移植手术后,你就认为自己再也无法参加比赛了。
That's what I thought anyway," Jackson tells BBC Sport.
不管怎样,我就是这么想的,”杰克逊告诉英国广播公司体育频道。
"I'll be forever grateful to my donor and the family for what they've given me. They've given me the gift of life and the opportunity to live my life to the fullest."
“我将永远感谢我的捐赠者和家人给予我的一切。 他们给了我生命的礼物和充分享受生活的机会。”
Football at the Transplant World Cup is not quite the same as the game played at the Fifa World Cup. Instead, it reflects how delicate each player's body is having been through life-altering surgery.
移植世界杯上的足球比赛与国际足联世界杯上的比赛不太一样。 相反,它反映了每个球员的身体在经历改变生活的手术后变得多么脆弱。
Matches are seven-a-side and played over 20-minute halves.
比赛为七人制,半场超过 20 分钟。
Contact is "not as aggressive as I was used to", Jackson says.
杰克逊说,接触“不像我以前那样具有攻击性”。
Having played 11-a-side football in the ninth tier of English football before his surgery, he became a game-changing new addition to the national transplant team when he joined up with the squad in January 2026. Jackson spent his youth career in the academy at Manchester United, before spells at Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End and Burnley.
手术前,他曾在英格兰第九级别联赛踢过 11 人制足球,2026 年 1 月加入国家移植队时,他成为改变比赛规则的新成员。 杰克逊在曼联的青训学院度过了他的青年生涯,之后曾效力于布莱克本流浪者队、普雷斯顿北区和伯恩利。
He eventually stopped pursuing a career as a professional and spent 13 years with clubs across the non-league pyramid.
他最终停止了职业生涯,并在非联赛金字塔的俱乐部度过了 13 年。
During his recovery, wife Lucy heard about the opportunity to join an England Transplant FC team on social media. Martyn Jackson won the Transplant World Cup less than two years after receiving a new heart Daley Cross, manager of the England team, said of Lucy's role: "She was just trying to do her best for him and trying to find a way to motivate him.
在他康复期间,妻子露西在社交媒体上听说有机会加入英格兰移植足球俱乐部球队。 马丁·杰克逊在接受新心脏后不到两年就赢得了移植世界杯冠军 英格兰队主教练戴利·克罗斯这样评价露西的角色:“她只是尽力为他做到最好,并试图找到一种方法来激励他。
"His wife did drop in the conversation that he used to play at Manchester United as a schoolboy.
“他的妻子确实介入了他学生时代在曼联踢球的谈话。
So that got our ears twitched instantly.
这让我们的耳朵立刻抽动起来。
"You could tell from him being on the pitch, even though he was so fresh into his journey, that he knew the football game and he would be such an incredible asset to us.
“你可以从他在球场上的表现看出,尽管他对自己的旅程还很陌生,但他了解足球比赛,他对我们来说将是一笔令人难以置信的财富。
"You can be in a dark place, at the time of diagnosis, through your treatment or even post-transplant. So to have us exist to help and inspire people means that we are getting some incredible footballers.
“在诊断时、治疗期间甚至移植后,你可能会处于黑暗的地方。 因此,我们的存在是为了帮助和激励人们,这意味着我们正在培养一些令人难以置信的足球运动员。
"And that really is the power of it: to that transplant community or to the world, showing people that when you've had organ failure, your life isn't over.
“这确实是它的力量:向移植界或全世界,向人们表明,当你出现器官衰竭时,你的生命还没有结束。
There is a chance for you, and you can go and resume and live your life." As the recipient of a donor heart, Jackson has to manage his exercise workload more carefully than his team-mates, many of whom have had kidney transplants, the most common transplant in the UK.
你有一个机会,你可以回去继续你的生活。” 作为捐赠心脏的接受者,杰克逊必须比他的队友更仔细地管理自己的运动量,他们中的许多人都接受了肾脏移植,这是英国最常见的移植手术。
His role in the side tends to involve 10-minute bursts, rather than playing for the duration of matches. Daley Cross manages the England Transplant team alongside his job as a youth worker Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies was diagnosed with a mild form of myocarditis in 2022.
他在球队中的角色往往是10分钟的爆发,而不是整场比赛。 戴利·克罗斯 (Daley Cross) 在担任青年工作者的同时,还负责管理英格兰移植队 拜仁慕尼黑队的阿方索·戴维斯于 2022 年被诊断出患有轻度心肌炎。
He was sidelined for nearly five months, undergoing specialist cardiac monitoring, before returning to play.
在重返赛场之前,他休养了近五个月,接受了专业的心脏监测。
Jackson started to feel ill two days after Ramsbottom side's win over Cheadle, and his case became so severe that doctors had to fit his heart with a mechanical pump to keep him alive.
拉姆斯伯顿队战胜钱德尔队两天后,杰克逊开始感到不适,他的病情变得如此严重,以至于医生不得不在他的心脏中安装机械泵以维持他的生命。
"Of course it was extremely scary," he says, "but at that stage, when you are critically ill, there's not really much you can do about it.
“当然,这非常可怕,”他说,“但在那个阶段,当你病危时,你真的无能为力。
You have to accept it." The super urgent waiting list he was placed on is the highest priority of the three tiers of patients waiting for a new heart.
你必须接受它。” 他被列入的超级紧急等候名单是等待新心脏的三级患者中最优先的。
Typically, only about four or five people are on the list at any one time in the UK.
通常,在英国任何时候只有大约四到五个人出现在名单上。
Dr Paul Callan, a consultant cardiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital's Heart and Lung Centre, worked with Jackson during his diagnosis and recovery. "Initially, we used to quote an average wait of seven days on the urgent transplant list," he says.
威森肖医院心肺中心的心脏病专家保罗·卡兰博士在杰克逊的诊断和康复过程中与他一起工作。 “最初,我们在紧急移植名单上的平均等待时间为 7 天,”他说。
"Now it's up to 14 days. Maybe 10% of patients who are put on the list get too poorly and have to be taken off the list."
“现在最多14天了。 也许列入名单的患者中,有 10% 的情况太差,不得不从名单中删除。”
Martyn Jackson was playing for Ramsbottom United in the North West Counties Premier Division in October 2024 That increased waiting time is the result of a reduction in the numbers of organ donors in the UK, with a 9% drop recorded in 2026 compared to the same period last year.
2024 年 10 月,马丁·杰克逊 (Martyn Jackson) 为西北郡超级联赛的拉姆斯博顿联 (Ramsbottom United) 效力 等待时间增加的原因是英国器官捐献者数量减少,2026 年与去年同期相比减少了 9%。
There are 8,700 people currently waiting for a donor organ, a figure that NHS Blood and Transplant say is an all-time high. This Organ Donation Week,, external which runs from 21-28 September, the NHS has launched an urgent response plan to address the decline. Jackson has yet to meet the family of the donor from which he received his new heart.
目前有 8,700 人正在等待捐赠器官,NHS 血液和移植部门称这一数字创历史新高。 本次器官捐赠周(9 月 21 日至 28 日)举行,NHS 启动了一项紧急应对计划来解决器官捐赠下降的问题。 杰克逊尚未与他接受新心脏的捐献者的家人见面。
He says he is considering reaching out to them around the two-year anniversary of his surgery.
他说,他正在考虑在手术两周年纪念日前后与他们联系。
For him to make a recovery within that time frame, culminating in playing football in a Transplant World Cup, is "remarkable", according to Dr Callan. England beat six teams on their way to winning last Friday's final in Frankfurt, scoring 36 goals, but for every player at the tournament there is gratitude that they even have the opportunity to play a football match again.
卡兰博士表示,他能在这段时间内康复并最终在移植世界杯上踢球,这是“了不起的”。 上周五在法兰克福举行的决赛中,英格兰队击败了六支球队,打进了 36 个进球,但对于参加比赛的每一位球员来说,他们甚至有机会再次参加一场足球比赛,对此心存感激。
"It is so important to spread that message, have that conversation about organ donation," says England manager Cross, "because our team only exists for that reason.
“传播这一信息,就器官捐赠进行对话非常重要,”英格兰队主教练克罗斯说,“因为我们的团队就是为此而存在。
"I wouldn't have 16 players to manage if we didn't have organ donation. And England wouldn't have just gone and won a World Cup."
“如果我们没有器官捐赠,我就不会有 16 名球员需要管理。 英格兰不会就这样赢得了世界杯。”
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