Togo midfielder Samuel Asamoah broke his neck at the weekend after colliding with an advertising board during a game for Chinese League 1 side Guangxi Pingguo.
The incident occurred after Asamoah was pushed off the pitch during a coming together with an opponent near the touchline on Sunday. He subsequently collided head-first into the boards which surrounded the pitch, before being taken to hospital.
On Monday, Guangxi Pingguo said in a statement that Asamoah “suffered dislocation and fractures of the cervical vertebrae” as well as nerve compression. The club also said that the player was at risk of “high-level paraplegia,” which refers to the inability to use lower parts of the body.
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