Latest news with #footballinjury
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
See the shocking injury boy, 11, suffered when he was IMPALED on a metal pole while celebrating his brother's birthday at footy final
A young Auckland FC supporter has suffered a shocking injury after being impaled on a metal pole while leaving the A-League semifinal on Saturday evening, turning a family birthday celebration into a night of distress. Jude, a passionate 11-year-old football fan, was leaving the Mt Smart Stadium with his family after Auckland's 2-0 loss when the incident occurred. 'Just after we'd crossed the main road, Jude was walking just in front of me – not seeing a waratah (metal pole), randomly sticking out of the ground,' Jude's mother Mary explained to The New Zealand Herald. 'Next I heard him cry out and looked down to see blood and yellow flesh coming out of his shin where the waratah had impaled [him]. 'We realised he would need to go to the hospital, so I went with Jude in a taxi, waving to my husband and other three children who were all looking very worried.' A football scarf was used as a tourniquet to slow down the bleeding before Jude was rushed to Starship Children's Hospital for emergency surgery. 'We arrived at Starship and Jude was in agony,' Mary said. 'While waiting to be seen [he] started sobbing saying, 'I feel so awful for Wilf (Jude's younger brother), it's his birthday!'.' The injury, which fortunately missed major tendons, will sideline Jude from playing football for up to a month, causing him to miss out on upcoming tournaments. Jude's mother was perplexed as to how the metal pole had been allowed to be placed where it had been. 'Jude was very lucky that it didn't go into tendons or muscle,' she said. 'I would not want this to happen to anyone else and want to ensure that this is dealt with so that this or worse doesn't happen to anyone else.' Auckland Council told the Herald that the pole has now been removed. 'Unfortunately, that was too late for Jude and we're hoping he has a speedy recovery and is able to get back onto the football field as quickly as possible,' a spokesperson said.
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Awoniyi in induced coma after surgery on abdominal injury
Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi is in an induced coma after having the first phase of surgery on a serious abdominal Nigeria international, 27, collided with the post in the 88th minute of the 2-2 draw against Leicester at the City Ground on Sunday as he attempted to get on the end of a cross from Anthony had surgery on Monday night and remains in hospital, with the rest of the procedure set to be completed on a statement earlier on Tuesday, Forest said Awoniyi was "recovering well" following the the incident on Sunday, he received treatment on the pitch and was able to continue but was visibly struggling when the match who joined Forest from Union Berlin in June 2022, had only been on the pitch for five minutes, having come on as a late substitute for Ibrahim Evangelos Marinakis took to the field after the game to express his concern to manager Nuno Espirito Santo over how Awoniyi's injury was is being kept updated on the forward's Tuesday, Forest said that Awoniyi's injury was "a powerful reminder of the physical risks in the game and why a player's health and wellbeing must always come first".
