West Ham ahead Michail Antonio despatched a message to the Premier League membership’s followers on Tuesday after being discharged from the hospital as he continues his restoration following a automobile crash in early December.
“Pleased New 12 months – and I’ll be again on that pitch quickly,” Antonio wrote in a message posted by the membership on its official web site.
Antonio, a 34-year-old Jamaica worldwide, wanted surgical procedure on a decrease limb fracture after a one-car incident exterior London on Dec. 7, and is predicted to face a prolonged spell of rehabilitation.
“Yearly round this time, I’m requested what I’m grateful for, and yearly I’ve struggled to search out the correct phrases,” Antonio mentioned in his message. “However this 12 months, I do know precisely what I’m grateful for: being alive.”
West Ham supervisor Julen Lopetegui beforehand referred to as the result of the crash a “miracle.”
Antonio thanked everybody who had helped him, together with emergency companies, the air ambulance “and everybody from high to backside at West Ham United FC.”
He has made greater than 300 appearances for West Ham since becoming a member of from Nottingham Forest in 2015, and performed in all 14 video games this season earlier than the incident.
Within the first recreation after the accident, West Ham gamers wore “Antonio 9” shirts forward of kickoff towards Wolverhampton on the London Stadium, with the package signed by the gamers — together with Antonio — then auctioned off with round $75,000 going to the NHS and Air Ambulances UK.
“Everybody on the membership wish to reiterate their heartfelt due to the primary responders, emergency companies, air ambulance employees and the NHS for the unbelievable assist given to Michail within the wake of the accident,” West Ham mentioned in an earlier assertion on Tuesday.
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