![Victoria's Simon Keith hospitalized, in dire need of heart and kidney transplant](https://cdn.cheknews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/12182011/5PM-NEWSCAST-373-1024x576.jpg)
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WATCH: Former professional soccer player and organ transplant advocate Simon Keith is currently in a San Diego hospital on dialysis. Keith made international headlines in the late 1980’s when he became the first athlete to play professional sports after undergoing a heart transplant. The University of Victoria alum is the current CEO of the Simon Keith Foundation, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness of organ donorship and educating transplant recipients.