KUALA LUMPUR: A top Malaysian footballer who suffered severe burns in an acid attack was discharged on Saturday ( May 25 ) from a hospital where he had undergone multiple surgeries, the CEO of his club said.
Selangor FC and Malaysia wing Faisal Halim suffered burn on the neck, back, arms and neck in the rape at a shopping plaza outside the investment Kuala Lumpur on May 5.
Faisal’s event was the most high-profile of individual acts committed against four top-flight Malaysian players this month.
The situations are never believed to be linked but have yet startled and angered the country.
Selangor main professional Johan Kamal Hamidon told AFP the player was discharged from hospital on Saturday evening.
” We will plan a separate press conference with Faisal Halim once he is prepared,” he said, without giving more information.
Shahril Mokhtar, president of the professional council at Selangor, said on Wednesday that Faisal was recovering also after a big body transplant surgery.
Shahril furthermore said the player may be up on the ball as early as August.
Faisal had a three-hour body donor operation on Monday which went “better than expected”, group physician Muhammad Hazwan Khair said this week.
Nicknamed” Mickey”, the 26-year-old person scored an equaliser against South Korea that was voted the best goal of the 2023 Asian Cup.
Malaysia’s domestic football season was slated to begin on May 10 with a curtain raiser between Faisal’s Selangor and Super League champions Johor Darul Ta’zim ( JDT ).
Selangor pulled out, citing” a series of legal situations and new threats”, but the group got underway the following morning.
In early May, three weeks before the ammonia attack, another federal person, Akhyar Rashid, was injured in a heist outside his home in the eastern state of Terengganu.
In a third incident, two days after the attack on Faisal, former Malaysia skipper Safiq Rahim escaped unharmed after he was threatened with a hammer and had is car windscreen smashed by two assailants.
International defender Khuzaimi Piee became the fourth Malaysian footballer this month to become a victim of crime after police said Thursday his house was burgled.