club confirmed Ajax Dutch football club, Amsterdam, announced on Monday that it paid 7.85 million euros in compensation to the family of its former player Abdelhak Nouriwho suffered brain damage in July 2017, following a heart attack he suffered during a friendly match.
“We are all aware that the suffering of Abdelhak and his relatives is not yet over. The situation is still very sad and we feel it here too at Ajax,” former international goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, who is the general manager of Ajax, said in an official statement.
Van der Sar added: “It is good that an agreement has been reached so that we can close the file,” while the player’s father, Mohamed Nouri, said in a statement that “Ajax’s participation and commitment have been very influential over all these years.”
Nuri of Moroccan origin, who is currently 24 years old, suffered a heart attack on July 8, 2017, while participating with his club in a friendly match once morest Werder Bremen in Austria, following which he fell into a coma as a result of “serious and permanent damage” to the brain, according to What was reported at the time by the club that terminated the player’s contract in March 2020.
Nuri remained in a coma for more than four years, with his family taking care of him at home since the fateful accident, at a time when the player’s family resorted to the Federal Arbitration Committee in June 2018, demanding compensation from the club to pay the costs of his care for life.
Soon following, Ajax agreed to take full responsibility for the player’s fate and apologized to the family, acknowledging that the medical treatment Nuri received following the incident was not sufficient.
After reaching an amicable agreement between the two parties, Ajax will compensate the player’s family with an amount of 7 million and 850 thousand euros, ending the legal procedures once morest him.
The club clarified that since the summer of 2017, Ajax has also paid the costs of the health care that Nuri receives, and will continue to do so.
Nouri grew up in the ranks of Ajax and graduated in age groups, before moving to the ranks of the first team in the summer of 2016, and played 15 games in its ranks at the beginning of the 2016-2017 season.
#Ajax said on Monday they will pay 7.85 million euros ($8.91 million) to the family of former player Abdelhak Nouri, who suffered brain damage following a cardiac arrest during a friendly match more than four years ago https://t.co/YFhABQpfg6
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