Brain damage shocker for Nouri
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AJAX midfielder Abdelhak Nouri has been diagnosed with severe and permanent brain damage, five days after he collapsed due to an irregular heartbeat during a friendly game in Austria.
Dutch club Ajax said yesterday on Twitter that it “received very bad news” regarding Nouri’s condition, after doctors at a hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, woke the player from an induced coma.
The club added that “recovery chances of these crucial brain functions are nil”.
Dutchman Nouri is expected to return soon to the Netherlands for further treatment at a hospital in Amsterdam.
The diagnosis came two days after tests indicated that Nouri’s heart was undamaged while a CT scan of his brain and initial neurological tests showed no irregularities either. Doctors were “cautiously optimistic about his recovery”, Ajax said at that time.
The 20-year-old collapsed and was taken to hospital by helicopter with Ajax trailing Werder Bremen 1-2 in last Saturday’s preseason friendly. The game in Zillertal in the Austrian Alps was abandoned after the 70th-minute incident.
“This is the worst possible message. It’s terrible,” Ajax director Edwin van der Sar said. “It’s been a real shock to Ajax even though we knew this was a possible scenario.”
Nouri made his debut for Ajax in September 2016 and played 15 games.
The incident comes a little over a month after Ivory Coast’s Cheick Tiote collapsed in training with Chinese club Beijing Enterprises and died on June 5.
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