{"id":124720,"date":"2021-09-06T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124720"},"modified":"2021-09-06T05:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T05:57:58","slug":"schumacher-family-friend-gives-remarkable-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124720","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher family friend gives remarkable update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close friend of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/michael-schumacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Formula One legend Michael Schumacher\">Formula One legend Michael Schumacher<\/a> has predicted the motorsport icon will make a recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Todt is a close family friend of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/michael-schumacher-following-progress-of-promising-f1-prospect-son-mick\/3850f77b-4e3f-4d95-85bd-efc30ec71aad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the Schumachers\">the Schumachers<\/a> and believes Michael will &quot;slowly and surely improve&quot; despite suffering a serious head injury after a ski accident back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time with [Schumacher&#x27;s wife] Corinna since Michael had his serious skiing accident on December 29, 2013,&quot; Todt, who regularly visits Schumacher, told German newspaper Bild.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She is a great woman and runs the family. She hadn&#x27;t expected that. It happened suddenly and she had no choice. But she does it very well. I trust her, she trusts me.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"9285158b-4e5d-42b0-a6a9-3fee0afb452e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9285158b-4e5d-42b0-a6a9-3fee0afb452e\" alt=\"Michael Schumacher\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thanks to the work of his doctors and the cooperation of Corinna, who wanted him to survive, he survived &#8211; but with consequences.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher, 52, has been receiving ongoing treatment and care following the ski accident in the French Alps which according to Swiss neurologist Erich Riederer left the former Ferrari driver in a &quot;vegetative state&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The family has been keeping his condition a tightly-held secret in an effort to maintain their privacy, however it has led to more intrigue over his current state and chances at recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A close friend of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher has predicted the motorsport icon will make a recovery. Jean Todt is a close family friend <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=124720\" title=\"Schumacher family friend gives remarkable update\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124722,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124720\/revisions\/124722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}