Julio Enciso says he “fainted” when he felt ill on a flight in South America.

The Albion star is on international duty with Paraguay, where he will play in two World Cup qualifiers.

In a TikTok video with colleague Ramon Sosa, he revealed he felt ill on the team flight – and that a soft drink and Japanese soup helped him recover.

He told followers: "My head hurts. I almost died, I fainted on the plane.

"I was powerless, I didn’t eat or sleep well. At one point I got up to go to the bathroom and I felt like I was falling."

He added: "A guy grabbed me and took me to the front. He made me drink coke and a Japanese soup and that did me good."

Sosa himself left Albion feeling pretty sick recently with his goal for Nottingham Forest at the Amex.

Enciso faces his Albion colleague Pervis Estupinan, of Ecuador, tomorrow in the race for World Cup qualification.

He has been only a bit-part player for the Seagulls under Fabian Huerzeler and the head coach was asked by The Argus recently about he fitted into the team plan.

Huerzeler replied: “We are working hard with him.

“We show it to him after every game, after every minute that he is playing, where he can improve.

“That is our job, to make him better.

“And it is also the responsibility for the player.

“How he accepts his role at the moment, how he reacts to his role.

“Is he disappointed and then shows his disappointment and also trains not good?

“Or is he like, ‘Alright, now I want to show it to everyone and show it to myself how good I am and show it to the gaffer how good I am, that I am in the gaffer’s head’?

“In the end this has to be the goal for every player who is not starting at the moment, to be in my head.”