Former Cameroon captain Rigobert Song is fit again after a narrow brush with death when suffering a stroke in early October, he explained in an interview published by French daily L’Equipe on Saturday.
“I’m back from the brink,” the former Liverpool and West Ham defender who led Cameroon to back-to-back African Cup of Nations declared.
“My blood pressure was up at like 25 and it felt like my head was exploding,” he said of his stroke, suffered at his home in Yaounde October 3.
“I was lucky to fall on my side and that way when I went down my tongue came out.”
“My dog started barking and the concierge came up but didn’t dare come in. But then a friend showed up and got me help,” he explained.
The 40-year-old was airlifted to France for specialist treatment after suffering a cerebral aneurysm and falling into a coma.