On February 24, Alberth Elis suffered a huge blow to the head after a duel with Donatien Gomis during the meeting between the Girondins de Bordeaux and Guingamp. Victim of head trauma, he was then placed in an artificial coma before undergoing surgery. Unconscious for four days, he admitted that he didn't remember anything when he woke up: “I didn't know what happened. I didn't know something had happened to my head. That's when they told me (his parents, editor's note)” he confided in an interview with The Athletic.
Elis didn't remember anything anymore
He then continued: “When I woke up (from the coma), I didn't remember that I was a footballer. I didn't remember that I was in France, I didn't remember that I was Honduran. The doctors thought it would be difficult for me to recover. The first two weeks were difficult because I wasn't 100% mentally, but day by day I started to get better. Almost every day felt like I gained a year, and every day I got better and understood myself better.“
Hospitalized for two weeks, the 28-year-old attacker then spoke about his rehabilitation: “I went to a teacher who helped me mentally – who taught me how to speak and write again, because I had lost a lot of that. I couldn't speak well, I couldn't write a lot of things well. I took classes so that everything would come back little by little and that's what I did all day” he explained before concluding on his desire to return to competition: “Ideally, I want to come back (to competition) in January. I have done tests with doctors who tell me that I am fine, that I can play again.“
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Alberth Elis did not fail to make touching confessions when he woke up from a coma. On February 24, Alberth Elis suffered a huge blow to the head after a duel with Donatien Gomis during the meeting between the Girondins de Bordeaux and Guingamp.
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