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Having an organ transplant doesn’t necessarily mean the end of your footballing career – just ask Denbigh Town’s Harry Lockley, who is celebrating an international call-up. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockley – who works as a teaching assistant and also runs a coaching business with his twin brother – has returned to Denbigh’s starting lineup at the start of this season after a kidney transplant in October 2023 meant he missed the majority of the last campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he has been called up to the England squad for the inaugural Transplant Football World Cup, to be held in Cervia, Italy, this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diagnosed with Alport Syndrome as a child – a condition that damages the blood vessels in the kidneys – Lockley, 22, had managed it perfectly well with medication up until two years ago, when his kidney function deteriorated rapidly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He began dialysis in April 2023 and was fortunate enough to get a kidney transplant in October – after six months on the waiting list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I got the phone call one afternoon – you don’t expect it,” he recalls, “and just like that, I was rushed in there and had the operation and it was finished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don’t have a lot of time to process it. It was a tough time but you have to take it as it comes – you can’t do anything about it. I tried to get on with as normal a life as I could and now I’m back to what I knew before.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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