Did Abdelhak Nouri, the former Dutch athlete, recently wake up from a coma? No, that's not true. Abdelhak Nouri woke up from a coma in 2020, and the video circulating on TikTok is old.
The claim that Abdelhak Nouri recently awakened from a coma appeared on a video published by this TikTok account on March 31st (archived here) with the following caption in Arabic: "Thank God. Abdelhak Nouri woke from a coma after three years".
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Wed Apr 12 08:14:32 2023 UTC)
The video was originally published by the official Twitter account of AFC Ajax, the Dutch football club, on July 15, 2017. The tweet carried the hashtag #StayStrongAppie, and showed Nouri's supporters gathered in front of his house as a sign of solidarity when he got injured.
On March 27, 2020, the online magazine TalkSport published an article titled Abdelhak Nouri: Former Ajax player wakes from a coma nearly three years after collapsing during match, which mentioned Nouri's brother Abderrahim's interview with a Dutch television where he said that his brother was "no longer in a coma."
