AMSTERDAM: Former Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has been moved to a hospital in the Netherlands but remains in intensive care after a brain bleed last week, his wife Annemarie said on Saturday.

The 52-year-old, who was admitted to a Split hospital while on holiday in Croatia, will rem ain in the intensive care unit but is in stable condition and out of immediate danger.

`Edwin has been repatriated from Croatia on Friday evening and is currently in the intensive care unit of a Dutch hospital,` Annemarie was quoted as saying by Ajax Amsterdam, where Van der Sar was until recently a director. `His situation remains the same: stable, in a non-life-threatening condition and communicative.`-Reuters