Doctors are "gradually removing the sedation to see how he reacts" and must give him a new scan, the source said Tuesday.
"There are encouraging signs but we must remain very careful," she said.
Sergio Rico, 29, who suffered a traumatic brain injury on Whit Sunday at the pilgrimage to El Rocio (southwestern Spain), is being treated at the Virgen del Rocio University Hospital in Seville, where he was placed under sedation and respiratory assistance.
The player has received many tributes, the public of the Parc des Princes sang his name throughout the last match of the PSG-Clermont season, Saturday.
An "intercessory mass for the recovery" of the player will be organized Wednesday at 12:30 in the church of the Madeleine, in Paris, announced the parish.
"I am sure he will be very proud of his team, of the affection shown to him by his teammates and the fans who have been chanting his name from the beginning to the end of the game," his wife Alba Silva said on Instagram on Sunday, adding: "We continue to fight together to win this battle."
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