Fabrice muamba fiancee

From his London hospital bed in intensive care the stricken footballer, whose heart stopped for 78 minutes last Saturday, has also asked his loved ones to tell people to keep thinking and praying for him. Speaking for the first time together, his dad Marcel Muamba and wife-to-be Shauna Magunda expressed their 'enormous gratitude' to the Bolton and Tottenham medical teams for their quick reaction during last weekend's FA Cup quarter final.

Eternal thanks: Shauna Magunda, right, Fabrice Muamba's fiancee, has kept a constant bedside vigil and has spoken out about the ordeal with his father Marcel. Medics worked on the Bolton Wanderers footballer for almost an hour and a half to save him after he suffered a cardiac arrest - shocking his heart 15 times before it restarted.

Ever since he was rushed to hospital his family, including Shauna, 27, and his parents Marcel and Gertrude, have all been maintaining a constant vigil. Speaking this lunchtime the pair praised the 'fantastic team' still caring for him at the London Chest Hospital, warning he is not out of danger yet.

Fabrice Muamba continued his extraordinary recovery from the on-pitch collapse that almost killed him by marrying fiancee Shauna Magunda at the weekend.

He has asked that you please keep him in your prayers,' they said in statement. Happy couple: Fabrice Muamba, right, out with his fiancee Shauna who he had recently got engaged to. The couple have a three-year-old son. Thanking the public and media for respecting their privacy in the past week, they added: 'We would like to thank God for answering our prayers.

The support we have had from the fans not just from Bolton but football supporters around the world has given us so much strength.

Seven months on from an on-field collapse that nearly killed him, Fabrice Muamba married his fiancée, Shauna Magunda, on Saturday.

Bolton are set to play their first game since the incident on Saturday, against rivals Blackburn Rovers. Shock: Bolton manager Owen Coyle left walks alongside the stretcher as medical staff attend to Fabrice Muamba. Leading the way, right, is Tottenham fan Dr Andrew Deaner, a consultant cardiologist who came down from the stands to help resuscitate the player.

It was Muamba's father who revealed the bewildered footballer asked 'did we lose? When he was told the match had been abandoned with the scores at , the footballer demanded to know why.