Former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been released from an intensive care unit in a Dutch hospital and hopes to return home next week as he recovers from a bleed around the brain, he said on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “I’m happy to share that I’m no longer in the intensive care unit.
However, I’m still in hospital. I hope to go home next week and take the next step in my recovery!” Van der Sar wrote next to a photo of him sitting up in a hospital bed with his arm around his wife, Annemarie.
The post was Van der Sar's first direct communication since suffering a bleed around the brain in Croatia on July 7 and being admitted to an intensive care unit in Croatia.
Previously, his wife and Ajax had given updates on his condition. The goalkeeper, who won the Champions League with Manchester United in 2008 after a penalty shoot-out, returned to the Netherlands last week.