Beaten at home by milk, remote controls, toys and suppositories. Weird injuries of players

Unfortunately, injuries are part of the profession of a footballer. It is a dynamic, contact sport, so it is easy to find an unfortunate event on the pitch. However, there are also many examples of injuries that footballers contracted at home, such as sitting in front of the TV or going down stairs. So the list below can be a warning also for us. What should we be careful about?

1. A footballer on the pitch faces players of the opposing team, while at home, the danger can lurk everywhere
2. Serious health incidents can be caused by toys left behind by children, a pool of dog’s urine, a game console, wood for the fireplace or … a passport
3. Sometimes you don’t even have to do anything. Just lie in front of the TV. The great English defender Rio Ferdinand found out about it
4. What injuries can I get at home? The list is quite large
5. More information can be found on the Onet homepage

A trap set by a dog

Darren Barnard is a Welsh footballer with German roots. He even had a game for Chelsea in the first half of the 90s. When he bought his daughter a dog, he did not expect the puppy to cause drama. The animal, apparently not yet trained to behave properly, “made a mess” in the kitchen. Barnard slipped in a pool of urine and damaged the ligaments in his knee. It took him several months of rehabilitation.

All because of the perfume

Santiago Canizares is one of the best Spanish goalkeepers ever. He was sure to go to the world championships in 2002. But the obstacle was … a bottle of cologne. The Spaniard dropped it, it fell to the floor, broke, and a shard of glass damaged the tendon of one of the toes. Another version says that the footballer wanted to cushion the fall of the vessel and tripped his foot. Either way, the unfortunate adventure with a bottle of perfume cost him a little health and caused a serious breakthrough in his representation career.

Dangerous wood for the fireplace

We also have a Polish representative in this ranking. Several years ago, Maciej Scherfchen, the then player of Lech Poznań, contracted a serious shoulder injury while carrying wood to the fireplace. One of the logs fell to the floor, and a footballer stepped on it so unhappily that he lost his balance and fell onto his left shoulder.

“I heard something crunch and I felt pain,” he said later. Scherfchen damaged the so-called shoulder-clavicular ligament, it was necessary to put on a sling and rehabilitation for several weeks.

Alessandro Nesta defeated by the console

Playing games on consoles is one of the favorite pastimes of footballers all over the world. However, as with everything, the pleasures cannot be exaggerated. Alessandro Nesta, an outstanding Italian defender of his time, found out about it.

The footballer competed so passionately with the pad in his hand that he injured his thumb tendon. He had to undergo surgery and take a month’s break from professional football.

Lying in front of the TV is also harmful

Another great defender deserves a high place on this list, Englishman Rio Fedinand. He didn’t even play anything. He just watched TV with his legs stretched out on the table. He fell asleep, and when he woke up, it turned out that he had pulled a hamstring in his knee.

The pilot is the culprit of evil

Watching TV can really be bad for your health. Not only Ferdinand was convinced of this, but also one of the best Irish footballers in history, Robbie Keane. He, in turn, injured his knee, reaching… for the TV remote control.

Milk has the fastest transport?

Jari Litmanen is a legend of Finnish football. Known not only for his achievements on the pitch, but also for strange injuries. In 2007, he contracted an injury falling down the stairs of his own home. Litmanen was carrying a glass of milk for the baby.

Two years earlier, he had injured his eye after being hit with the bottle cap of a bottle opened by the president of the club where Fin was playing.

Passport as a melee weapon

You don’t even need a bottle of beer held by the club president to damage your eye. You just need your own passport. This tool hurt the Croatian footballer Milan Rapaić. The details of the incident are unknown. Fortunately, passports are needed less and less.

Watch out for toys!

Children, neither directly nor on purpose, of course, can really cause a lot of trouble. Scattered Lego bricks waiting for someone to step on them is a known scarecrow for a long time. In the case of British footballer Sean Flynn, the perpetrator of evil was the cars left by his son. He fell unfortunate enough to have broken his nose and also damaged his lip and toes.

While staying with the children, other unpleasant stories are worth mentioning: David Batty suffered an Achilles tendon contusion, after his daughter ran over his leg with a three-wheeled bicycle, Miroslav Radović broke his metacarpal bone, saving the child from slipping out of his hands, his daughter put a finger on Allan Nielsen in the eye, and Kevin Kyle burned his genitals with boiling water in which he heated milk for his offspring.

A suppository can also be dangerous

At the end of this list, a truly exceptional trauma, caused by – to be delicate – carelessness, or maybe eyesight problems. Brazilian footballer Ramalho, star of Sao Paolo club in the 60s and 70s, developed serious stomach problems towards the end of his career, which caught his beds and bathrooms for a few days (some media even write about a hospital stay). All because of taking prescribed medications incorrectly. Ramalho swallowed them, and they were… suppositories.

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