While training after a very long -term recovery of an inflammation of his heart muscle, a cardiologist was alerted to an irregularity, after which he decided to no longer want to walk. ,, You don’t want to play with your life. I thought about it for two weeks and then made the decision, “says the striker from Epe in an interview with Algemeen Dagblad.
Dost recently returned to the AZ-PEC Zwolle match at AZ where he thanked his rescuers with a gift for their efforts in the resuscitation on the field. With, among others, the then physiotherapist Martin Cruijff, who has now exchanged AZ for PSV, Dost discussed the experiences of that conscious October 29, 2023, when his life hung on a sides wire and was saved by the medical emergency services.
Dost collapses on the field
Een redding waarbij de rol van AZ-speler David Moller Wolfe, inmiddels actief voor Wolverhampton Wanderers, ook zeer cruciaal was, want waar iedereen, onder anderen ook de scheidsrechter, voorbij liep aan Dost, toen hij zomaar ineenzakte op het veld, daar had de AZ-speler in de hectische slotfase waarin zijn team joeg op de gelijkmaker wél oog voor de situatie en maakte hij met handgebaren duidelijk, dat de verzorgers meteen het veld in had to come. Only when they ran into the field was the game stopped. Dost thanked his rescuers in Alkmaar. “I can’t express in words how grateful I am.”
Between 2007 and 2023, Dost was active for FC Emmen, Heracles Almelo, SC Heerenveen, VFL Wolfsburg, Sporting Lisbon, Eintracht Frankfurt, Club Brugge, FC Utrecht and NEC and played eighteen times for the Dutch national team. In total he scored 270 goals, including one goal for Orange.