Ajax star Abdelhak Nouri came out of coma after almost three years

After 2 years, 8 months and 19 days, Abdelhak Nouri has awaken from a coma and can now eat and sit in a wheelchair.

The 22-year old Dutch and Ajax midfielder collapsed in a friendly game against Werder Bremen on July 8, 2017. 

What a great news in difficult time.

Abdelhak Nouri has awoken from a coma after two years and nine months.

Nouri suffered a cardiac arrhythmia attack in July 2017, causing him to collapse on the pitch.

Doctors warned Nouri’s family that the Dutchman would never fully recover after he was permanently brain damaged in the incident.

Nouri’s brother Abderrahim show De Wereld Draait Door: “He has not been home very long, we take care of him there now. I must say that since he is at home it is going much better than before in the hospital.

He was revived on the pitch and airlifted to hospital, but the brain damage left him in a permanently vegetative state, and he is now forced to communicate by raising his eyebrows.