SAD!!!! Ajax Fans Rally Together For Young Player Who Collapsed In Friendly Match (Pictured)

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SAD!!!! Ajax Fans Rally Together For Young Player Who Collapsed In Friendly Match (Pictured)

Hundreds of fans of the Dutch football team Ajax have staged an emotional rally outside the family home of a player who suffered brain damage after collapsing in a friendly match.

Tributes have been pouring in for 20-year-old Abdelhak Nouri who collapsed in a game in Austria a week ago.

The club says the midfielder suffered “serious and permanent brain damage”.

Nouri, known as Appie, has been transferred to an Amsterdam hospital for further treatment.


In an emotional display of support for the player, Ajax fans gathered outside his parents’ home in the Geuzenveld district of Amsterdam, applauding, lighting flares and chanting “Appie, Appie”.

Nouri suffered cardiac arrhythmias – heart rhythm problems – during the game against German team Werder Bremen, Ajax said in a statement,

He received emergency treatment on the pitch and was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Innsbruck.

The club has said there is no chance of him recovering from the damage.

“The diagnosis was made that a lot of [his] brain is not functioning. All this probably occurred due to a lack of oxygen supply,” the statement said.