FORMER LIVERPOOL AND Cameroon defender Rigobert Song has been brought out of a two-day coma and is due to fly to France to continue his recovery.
The 40-year-old reportedly collapsed while at his home in Yaounde on Sunday and was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.
“He has come out of his coma and the oxygen has been disconnected,” said Dr Louis Joss Bitang A Mafok, director of the Yaounde Central Hospital’s emergency centre, according to the BBC.
“His high blood pressure has returned to normal and the cerebral haemorrhage has been controlled.”
Song is expected to be flown to France in order to continue his recovery.
“A medical aircraft will be in Cameroon in the morning [on Tuesday]. We will have a working session with the French team and then he will be flown to France,” Dr Mafok added.
Song earned a record 137 caps for Cameroon and played at four World Cups and eight Africa Cup of Nations finals in a career spanning 16 years.
He spent three years in the Premier League with Liverpool and West Ham before joining Lens, and later spent six years in Turkey with Galatasaray and Trabzonspor.
Former Cameroon team-mate Samuel Eto’o and ex-Liverpool players including Jamie Carragher, Robbie Fowler and Stan Collymore were among those to post messages of support for Song via Twitter.
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Soccer fans let down the sport so much it’s ridiculous
They should all strive to be more like Manchester United fans. The game would get a better reputation then.
What was wrong with my true comment? :( Accidental red thumbs no doubt. :)
That’s English Football for you.. Then you have braindead Irish fans arguing with each other over who’s team has the worst fans when in fact their all the same.. Not only that but the hooligans who their arguing over hate the Irish…
@David Garland. How many supporters go and watch English teams each week? Do you know? Are they fenced in like on the continent? Do you know? What’s the population of Dublin, do you know? How many arrests on a drunken Dublin night do you know? Yet as a result of one incident and an initial ten arrests you brand English football so negatively.
Where have you been the past 30 years? The English are known the world over for their skum Football Fans..
You’re clearly the knowledgable one so I will leave your last comment with you.
Every single club in English Football has a hooligan element to it.. Go onto youtube and search for Man Utd or Chelsea or Arsenal etc and thousands of videos pop up.. It’s part of the culture over there and it’s not just a handful of fans or clubs it’s across the board.. You won’t see Sky Sports broadcasting hooligan fights or away fans having to be escorted into grounds but it happens every single week at every club in England. So that tells me English Football has a problem with fans behaving themselves
And you’re clearly deluded..
I hate football hooliganism, detest it in fact. I grew up with it on the news, a blight on the game which at the time saw British clubs and British and Irish players regularly playing at the top level in Europe and then side lined.
This year there has been the Dutch rioting in Italy, the Germans rioting in Greece, the French regularly rioting in Paris, The polish and Germans fighting and Albania and the Balkans at it.
My work puts me on the front line with it.
What I will say in response to this dark headline, is that ten arrests from what is arguably one of England’s most hostile Derby’s is regrettable but a blip in what has been achieved overall. It’s just a shame the idiots get such a headline.
10 blokes do something and like Chelsea in Paris they blame every supporter that was within 10 miles of it,media tripe is all it is