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A semi-professional footballer and online page entrepreneur surprised doctors after being kicked out of the box after dizziness.
Louis Bollard, of Denbigh, lived in London, where he developed Play Away, Stay Away/PASA, described as “Airbnb for Sports Enthusiasts”.
He bet on Chingford Athletic’s first team, but began to feel unwell on Saturday morning of a January match.
The 27-year-old explained: “I told him I wasn’t feeling well.
“It was the first Saturday after New Year’s Eve and I was joking about celebrating too much.
“I started the game but I knew something wrong.
“I was lacking in coordination, especially on the left side, suffering from vertigo and being given five minutes. “
After leaving, he went to the local hospital and underwent a CT scan. That’s when he won some news.
He was told that he had discovered bleeding in the brain of an aneurysm and that he had undergone an operation. Later, the doctor said that one in 3 people die while bleeding and have been lucky.
He was diagnosed with a deformity of the cerebral artery and underwent a momentary operation this week at Walton Hospital in Liverpool after returning to live with his circle of relatives in north Wales.
It’s a difficult time, but the entrepreneurial sports fan can temporarily refocus on the site.
Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, the games were interrupted and enthusiasts still can’t attend the games as usual.
Although difficult, this also gave Louis a chance, with a redesign to create a separate platform for rugby fans, with a football to hold on to shortly.
The concept is an online network of sports enthusiasts that connects traveling enthusiasts with a local host, allowing others to save money and attach them.
Members pay an annual payment to stay active and then use it to save cash on their sports trips.
It recently increased when the company ranked 52nd in Tech Round’s UK Top100 StartUps in 2020, surpassing prestigious competitors such as andy Murray’s Castore logo and alongside some elite start-ups such as Cuvva, Gousto and Zoom.
Speaking about the site, he said: “The way to conceptualize it is like an Airbnb network, but exclusively for sports fans.
“The concept was incredibly well received, especially in rugby, and I introduced my new rugby website: www. pasarugby. com. “
Originally, through the Adopte a Lion program, Lions’ excursion to New Zealand was encouraged and the moment Borussia Dortmund enthusiasts offered Monaco enthusiasts a bed for the night after the Dortmund team bus suffered explosions before a scheduled adjustment between the two teams.
He had also used a platform for cyclists on his way back from Switzerland by bicycle, where visitors greeted runners for one night while travelling around Europe.
Liverpool FC fan said: “I wanted to reflect that in football and rugby, we had more than two hundred registered in the initial pitch. Coronavrius had an impact, but it also gave me time to rearrange that and we’re expanding the numbers again. .
“The list of technologies is a real marvel because we are still at an early stage. But they obviously saw what the perspective is on this.
He says the brain hemorrhage he suffered replaced his determination that it was a success.
He said: “I’ve been an entrepreneur, I went to the Peter Jones Business Academy and worked with him for a year. It hasn’t replaced that entrepreneurial spirit. “
Now he works from Denbigh and says, “Thanks to broadband improvements, I can now do this from north Wales, which you may have done before. “