Belgian champion a little over two years ago, he came close to disaster: “Chronic stress almost proved fatal to me” – Tout le football

Alfred Schreuder is today the coach of Al-Nasr. But he also learns, as a player must, to listen to his body.

Alfred Schreuder didn't convince everyone when he helped Club Brugge win the title a little over two years ago. Subsequently, his time at Ajax was cut short, he has since gone into exile in the United Arab Emirates. The last few months have not been easy on a personal level. “During a lunch with relatives, they told me that if I was going to the Middle East at 50, it couldn't hurt to do a little medical scan,” he explains to Telegraaf.Un advice which turned out to be crucial: during the examination, we discovered signs of a heart attack. “The doctor asked me if there had been a time in the last year and a half when I had had vision problems, because they had seen a white spot on the right back of my brain, the visual part”. He then remembers an episode which dates back to his time in Bruges: “I had been working for a while, I had looked at my phone and I could no longer read my messages. I sat quietly for a while, I grabbed the newspaper, but I couldn't read it either. All the letters were mixed up. After ten minutes, my vision was good again. I didn't tell anyone in retrospect. intelligent.”It's a blood clot blood which almost got even worse. The result of all the stress internalized by the Dutchman. More than his overflowing passion on the bench, he had to face the death of his daughter. “Chronic stress almost killed me. The doctors told me I was lucky.” Since then, he has had successful surgery and has learned to savor all the little things that make life so precious.