Angel City defender Savy King has been released from the hospital, just more than a week after she collapsed on the field during a fight and needed surgery to treat a heart abnormality.

King released a photo of himself in the hospital with a heart -shaped pillow and gave the thumb on social media Sunday.

I still find the words that express how much your love and support has meant to me in the last few days. What I know is that I wouldn’t get through this without my incredible family by my side, my amazing teammates who have emerged for me and prayed for me, the fans, the whole football community and the excellent medical team here at ACFC who saved my life and varied for me every step in the way, “She wrote in the post.”

Angel City issued a statement that King had been released from the hospital the day before.

King, 20, collapsed during the second half of a National Women’s Soccer League match between Angel City and the visitor Utah Royal on May 9.

She was treated in the field for more than 10 minutes before being brought by ambulance to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Once that doctors discovered a heart abnormality, and she underwent an operation on Tuesday. Her forecast was good, the team said.

Both players and fans were shaken by the incident, but the fight continued, a step criticized broadly. The league later said it underwent its politics.

The NWSL Players Association was among those who said the match should not have continued.

“These moments require humanity, healthy judgment and restraint. Any medical emergency that requires the administration of life -saving care must end the game. The fight should not have continued,” NWSLPA said.

On Friday, a league declaration expressed regrets for having allowed the fight to continue.

“The whole health and well -being of the NWSL community remains our highest priority, and in any similar situation that in the future should and would be abandoned,” the statement states.

Angel City visited Bay FC in a match on Saturday night, the team’s first since King’s Collapse. Before kickoff in San Jose’s Paypal Park, both teams of shirts with ‘SK3’ printed on the front as a tribute to King. Angel City Captain Sarah Gorden also held King’s Jersey up under the team photo.

NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman spoke with journalists at the break.

“All we could do is learn from the experience and conclude that in a future situation we will ensure that our policies and protocols do not allow the game to continue,” she said in her first comments about King’s collapse.

King was the second overall election in 2024 NWSL Draft of Expansion Bay FC and played 18 games for the club. She was traded for Angel City in February and had started in eight games for the team this season.

Reporting Associated Press.

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