Utrecht Player Breaks His Neck

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Doctors have warned it could be weeks before the full implications of the serious neck injury suffered by FC Utrecht defender Mihai Nesu on Tuesday can be assessed.



Mihai Nesu was left without feeling below his neck after a training-ground collision
Nesu, 28, broke a cervical vertebra when team-mate Alje Schut landed on top of him as they challenged for the ball in a training session ahead of this weekend's final round of Eredivisie fixtures.

The incident left Nesu without any feeling in his body from the neck down and fighting for breath. After being taken away from the training ground in an ambulance, Nesu spent five hours in surgery.

The operation was deemed a success but Utrecht team doctor Simon Goedegebuure revealed it could be some time before they can assess whether there will be a complete functional recovery of the damaged spinal cord nerves.

"We will have to wait for the coming days or weeks to see whether the feeling in Mihai's limbs returns,'' Goedegebuure said.

Nesu's team-mates have spoken of their horror at the Romania international's injury.

Fellow defender Jan Wuytens told De Telegraaf: "For the first few seconds you were just thinking that he was going to get up. But he stayed down and started screaming.

"He said he could not move and that he could not breathe. It was a very intense experience. You feel so helpless, and Mihai is extremely popular with the whole team.''

Forward Dries Mertens added: "You could see immediately that it was very serious. Mihai could not move and wanted oxygen. I'm still completely shattered. It was a terrible experience.

"After Mihai was taken to the hospital by ambulance we have all had to support each other - particularly Alje, because he was devastated.''

Nesu has made over 80 appearances since joining Utrecht from Steaua Bucharest in the summer of 2008, and has won eight caps for the Romanian national side since making his debut in 2005.

What a horrible thing to experience. I hope he makes a full recovery. It can happen so easily.

Derfil

Fingers crossed for the lad.

Dean820

Christ, thats terrible.

dan1895

Hope the guys ok. These freak incidents are a scary thought.

smokedeels

best of luck to him

PauloMN

Yeeooowwwch! Awful, hope he'll be ok. Must be frightening as feck.

Cypher_sounds

Always sad to hear about footballers getting serious injuries, hopefully his spinal cord nerves become functional again after having that op.

Helix

footballers these days are pansies

dion dublin broke his neck for the villa and played on

mink_man

Helix wrote: »

footballers these days are pansies

dion dublin broke his neck for the villa and played on

ya because it's not because he can't move from the neck down that's the problem. jackass.

Desire.

Helix wrote: »

footballers these days are pansies

dion dublin broke his neck for the villa and played on

I hope you're joking, I really do.

everdead.ie

Hope he's ok and can get back to having full movement although I doubt he'll ever play more than a bit in the garden with the kids.

Hope he has a speedy recovery.

WallyGUFC

Jesus Christ he's obviously f**king joking!:rolleyes:

mink_man

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Jesus Christ he's obviously f**king joking!:rolleyes:

you're supposed to use the pacman! the PACMAN!!!!!!!!! :pac:

Jelle1880

I heard the operation was a success and now it's only the wait to see if feeling returns to his body.

Helix

Desire. wrote: »

I hope you're joking, I really do.

really, you're actually unsure of it?